It’s primarily used for software development but figured I’d install wow as well.
With high settings (not max), I can only get around 40 fps and have to crank down most settings from the lowest to next to the lowest settings to have an enjoyable framerate.
I’m playing on 3440x1440 resolution.
On my gaming PC w/ 32GB Ram, an RTX3090, Ryzen 9 5850X, I can run whatever FPS I want with all settings maxed out more or less.
Are there any plans to optimize the mac version or was the M1 compatibility just something that was done half-arsed to say you support the game natively?
The MacMini has the lowest variant of the M1 processor, so it’s unsurprising that driving WOW at such a high resolution is causing you issues. Comparing it to an RTX3090 is hardly reasonable. Look to the MacStudio with the top-end M1 variant for a comparable amount of graphics processing.
You could either lower the resolution - I accept this is not ideal - or accept the lower graphics settings.
Base M1 is widely considered to be a 1080p GPU. I have a curved ultrawide monitor and play at 720p render scale. I have most settings maxed out, but shadows turned down one notch and liquid detail to ‘fair’. Compute effects are just bad, disable them.
And you won’t get decent performance above 1080p. What are you thinking comparing it to a 3090 that uses 400000 watts and is not available, it’s a laptop chip used in macbook air and ipad pro without cooling. Stop cheaping out and spend some money if you want better performance. You just want to brag about your dumb pc gaming card. Don’t bring that to the mac crowd, we will just laugh at you.
To close the loop on this discussion: the Mac Mini M1 exceeds the minimum requirements for WoW, but not much more than that. Particularly at high resolution scaling fairly low framerates are to be expected - that isn’t a question of game optimization but rather of intended design scope on the chip itself.
I had a few issues on my M1 mbpro and here are a few things that I discovered and helped with performance.
1.Run your native resolution on MacOS desktop before running wow.
Because I had an external monitor and I ran a scaled resolution for it, when I ran WoW it used the same principle twice (gpu rescaling desktop and on top rescaling wow).
If I set the desktop resolution to native (100%) I get much better fps, less load on the GPU.
Run your fans at higher speed.
If I let them on auto heat builds up too quick and they’'re rather conservative.
For best fps I manually run them at about 80% (or whatever your ear can accept)
