Hy friends
Lately, my FPS rate is going crazy. After playing WoW for years without an issue, seemingly overnight my FPS rate when starting the game is at about 25 and within minutes drops to 8. It’s impossible to play.
I’ve been scamming through the forums tying to find an answer - seems like I’ve tried everything:
- Closed all applications running in the background
- My operation system is up to day, just updated all of it today
- Changed my graphics setting to optimal
- changed in-game settings, switched to Directx 11
- Turned off Vsync
- Got graphic settings down to 2
- disabled all my addons
…Nothing worked.
Here are some details about my computer:
Apple MacBook pro 2019
Processor: 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
Memory: 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4
Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4 GB
Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB
UserBenchmark out of game:
h ttps://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/46585830
I really don’t know what else to do…
Thank you for your support 
Interesting setup! DirectX 11 doesn’t actually exist on MacOS, so I’m guessing WoW is running off a Windows-formatted partition via bootcamp? If so, that is perfectly fine - if not, MacOS would generally use Metal (or OpenGL, if necessary) within WoW.
That all said: there is a chance WoW may currently not be using the AMD video card, and has to make do with the integrated Intel UHD. The described framerates would be roughly what could be expected in such a case.
Please have a look in the System → Advanced menu, and check if the correct video card is set in the “Graphics Card” area. It should show the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M there - and if not, please change the setting until it does.
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Thank you for the quick Reply!
Tried to run it on both Bootcamp and OS - you’re right, on OS it’s metal.
Yes, tried that too actually. Default was auto-detect. Switched it to AMD - for whatever reason, it made it actually worse…
Anything else I could try out?
Interesting, and quite counterintuitive - this almost implies that the hardware itself isn’t responding correctly. As such, the next step would be to start looking at said hardware, to make sure temperatures/voltages/clockspeeds are within reasonable ranges.
There are is a rather nifty tool called HWMonitor that does that pretty nicely, and it should run just fine from the Windows-partition you have.
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Okay perfect. So here’s what I’m seeing - might be the problem…
In game:
All CPU cores over 89 Celsius - CPU proximity 78 celsius
All PECI over 84 degrees
Memory module 66 celsius
Mainboard proximity 75 celsius
GPU over 77 celsius
Heatpipe 2 75 celsius
Heatpipe 2 66 celsius
Heatpipe incoming air 36 celsius
Heatpipe outgoing air 50 celsius
CPU package core 4.79W
CPU Package graphics 0.02W
Total: 6.98W
This exceeds my computer understanding - are those numbers the reason for the problem?
Nope, the numbers are normal. The CPU can handle 100°, although not recommended for longterm usage.
GPU also looks fine.
Your problem is definately not caused by these temps.
What resolution are you running the game at? Did you check if the renderscale is not set above 100%?
With that GPU you definately need to lower the resolution below native (100%), to achieve good framerates. Try maybe 70% ish.
For a better image quality when upsampling, set the resample quality (under advanced options) to FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0).
Adjust the Resample Sharpness on the right to your liking.
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The support is MUCH appreciated! Thank you!
Did go ahead and change those settings. Not much changed about the FPS tho - it went from 8 to 10.
It’s “okay” to quest on those rates. haven’t had the courage yet to hop into dungeons LOL
Hm but it did increase the fps, so we can assume the GPU is somehow not working properly and the limiting factor.
Did you update the drivers recently?
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I just did a full update on MacOS Monterey today - I’m almost certain that those update all drivers too. I might be wrong tho. Been looking on how to update drivers manually - seems a bit more confusing on apple.