WoW Classic on Apple M1 Pro runs not smooth on Sonoma

MacBook Pro
Chip: Apple M1 Pro
Memory: 16 GB

On Ventura I had problem that the game sometimes ran not smoothly. I got 200+ FPS but turning camera view isn’t smooth. Only restarting my PC helped. After the upgrading to Sonoma even restarting isn’t helping. My video settings is on default (level 5). Changing them to lower quality doesn’t help either.

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Some more info.

I play on external display. If I start WoW directly after reboot it works fine. But if I ran/switch to other applications (like chrome/discord) and then go back to WoW, I get lags on rotation camera view and it generally becames unplayable and I have to restart my PC again. It wasn’t the case on Ventura. Sometime I got similar thing and on Ventura too but it was only after some long time of inactivity (like screen saver / sleeping mode). Probably it has something to do with this new Game mode. I don’t know but I can’t use my PC on Somona as I did it on Ventura.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

  1. Restart PC
  2. Launch WoW Classic client from bnet (it works fine)
  3. Launch Chrome browser by Alt+Space
  4. Alt+Tab back to WoW

After this steps the game runs not smooth (The screen refreshes jerkily when rotating the view). Closing Chrome or restarting the game doesn’t help . Only restarting the whole PC helps.


Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro18,3
Model Number: MKGP3RU/A
Chip: Apple M1 Pro
Total Number of Cores: 8 (6 performance and 2 efficiency)
Memory: 16 GB
System Firmware Version: 10151.1.1
OS Loader Version: 10151.1.1
Serial Number (system): R59W2G6V29
Hardware UUID: BD0B032B-1F2B-52CD-9184-4EC508D730DA
Provisioning UDID: 00006000-001C585C0ED2801E
Activation Lock Status: Disabled

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It seems that I found the root of the problem. I had Logitech MX Keys and Logitech MX Anywhere mouse paired by bluetooth. Now all just work perfectly since when I plugged them via the USB receiver and disabled bluetooth completely.

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