I play on my work laptop (Macbook Air M1, 8 GB RAM) and Wow Classic has always been smooth as butter for the most part. Work asked me to upgrade OS from Catalina to Ventura, and from that moment on, whenever I open wow, my chassis becomes burning hot. I installed a temperature monitor app which says 90-95 deg C whenever Wow is open. Needless to say, it drains battery in no time. Besides that I don’t feel much difference performance wise. I’ve tried various tricks to “fix” it by googling, but nothing helps.
Before upgrading to Ventura, the computer never became hot when gaming. Is there anything to be done besides downgrading OS?
At least in Windows sometimes insufficient cooling can cause issues like that if the rendered scene/game is simple with uncapped FPS. You could try to restrict FPS of the game and see if that helps.
I’ve always played with 60 fps restriction. Didn’t change any in-game wow settings or addons, this happened entirely due to Ventura upgrade.
I would check your background fps restriction is still set. I run windows, but I found that the last hotfix, also removed my background fps restriction in WoW, and I had to re-set it, 'cause it was trying to melt my GPU
30 FPS limit on WOW in background, CPU runs at 85 deg C when I tab out. With WoW closed my CPU hovers around 35-40 fps. I don’t know what the temp was before Ventura because it was never an issue, battery life was crazy long even with WoW running and computer was never hot to the touch. Now it almost burns my hands when I touch the aluminium strip north of keyboard.
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