Mac issues - CRASHING, LAGGING AND STUTTERING AFTER 8.3

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
2.3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
8 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB

Where were you in game when the crash happened?: Happened multiple times for me, but of note: Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Boralus, Warsong Gulch, Horrific Visions, Tempest Keep, Wailing Caverns, Arathi Basin
What were you doing when the crash happened?: Multiple things - could have just started casting a skill, an ally or enemy could have been casting a skill, sometimes just movement and mobs coming into frame, looting corpses, or opening up the heart of azeroth and azeroth trait windows.
What error message did you get (if any)?: Spinning wheel or just a freeze then shutdown
What character/class you were playing when it happened?: Heyls (120 Priest) and Bolerus (85 Warrior)

Not fixed again in US.
We have to be patient srly. Itā€™s been only 2 week. And it not like we had to pay to play.
Let all have some kind words to the team of this small compagny.
F%ck you blizzard activision employees.
And iā€™m not blaming the dirigeant.
They couldnā€™t know how bad their team was.
Itā€™s impossible to imagine ppls you are paying are not able to fix a bug on an entire platform during more than 2 weeks.
And itā€™s impossible too to think the communication team will send one message every 4 days to inform your community.
I understand why they fire some of your colleagues.
Unfortinately, they fire the wrong one cause you are BAD AS F%CK.
Return coding some phone games, return managing some cheap fast food facebook page if you have a little bit of self esteem.
We canā€™t say blizzard activision is going worst regardless how bad employees are.
And look at you, you who are supposed to read this forum.

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Did someone try to switch off the in-game sound completely?
Just wondering.
Maybe there is something wrong with audio decoding on Macs in 8.3?

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I did. Switched the sound off completely, switched to windowed mode and reduced all graphics settings to their lowest value, it did not help as the game still eventually froze and crashed.

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Where were you in game when the crash happened?: Every place in WoW, where a lots of people around me. (OG, Vale, Uldum, Zandalar, Mechagon, instances, bgs, everywhereā€¦
What were you doing when the crash happened?: Casting, running, aoe, a lots of things.
What error message did you get (if any)?: No message, panic shutdown, or constant freeze.
What character/class you were playing when it happened?: Krysal (120 ret. paladin), KƩtvirƔg ( 120 blood dk), Hooaaxx (120 frost mage), Vierna (120 shadow priest), etc.

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Blizzard can we have an update here please?

Tried again now after the update. Still freeing, stuttering and getting black screens for the duration.

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It is impossible to play this game. Freezes everywhere.

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Mac just crashed. Keep dying. Keep losing.

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Canā€™t play the game still. Two weeks of pain and misery. I reached out the WoW CS for a refund on the game time but was denied. I just paid for a game I can not run on my MacBook. All was fine before 8.3. Iā€™ve played since 2006 and never experienced this kind of failure before.

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Well seems like I have to skip tonightā€™s raid because of the issue. Blizz please fix the game! Iā€™d love to see a compensation for all of us experiencing the beauty of the game freezes and crashes.
I also cannot submit the ticket. Does anyone know why? I keep getting errors and ā€œplease try again laterā€.
The lvl of anger and frustration is unreal. Paying money for the game we canā€™t play.

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Can hardly do anything with this issue.

It seems to be getting worse with each patch.

Now I canā€™t even kill one eny alone or turn around too fast without the crash. At least before it was most common on bigger pulls.or highly dense areas.

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I saw an update on bnet, thought MAYBE THIS IS IT, MAYBE THEY FIXED IT. Logged in, 30 sec into in Boralus game freezes and crashes. I criā€¦

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Tried after todayā€™s patchā€¦ nope cannot get passed the first part of the Maelstrom. Two weeks now and nothingā€¦

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all the problem
it canā€™t be played anymore
it still falls
itā€™s not worth playing just freeze and die, and Iā€™m not talking about a healer when I go with him and kill the whole group

bravo blizzard really bravo

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greatly after they have been fixed, I have to restart the MAC hard - it will not restart itself
so Iā€™m great at destroying MAC for a lot of money

interesting note. how will blizzard compensate :slight_smile:

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Itā€™s never been as bad as it is now. I was able to do solo content before but now Iā€™m stuck in Stormwind - the game freezes as soon as I log in and I have to hard reboot my MacBook. Blizz, whatā€™s going on? How can we find a refund for the month of gameplay we have missed?

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I have a MacBook Air 13-inch 2017
MacOS Catalina
Intel HD graphics 6000 1536 MB

It freezes on any char, doesnā€˜t matter which one. Mostly during pvp, raids, mythics or when i do world quests with a lot of people around.

It also happens everytime when there are golden lights like the ones in this hall for the cloak.

It also happens in visions, one time it crashed, other times it freezed for like 20-30 sec.

I hope it is gonna be fixed soon since i am only able to do solo stuff and it has gotten kind of boring.

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So i just played wow with an external hard drive. NO freezes, NO crashes, NOTHING!! I can actually play again! <3

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Yeah I have the same problem. The game freezes when I pull the first group of mobs in there.

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