Sure, it probably cost a *reasonable* amount of money in real-world terms, but it was released as a budget card. As others have suggested, a Radeon 9600 is by no means the solution to any problems. You’ve got a lot more horsepower than me though (single processor G5 1.8GHz and an NVIDIA GeForce GO) so you may be able to toy around with that a bit.Īlso, since you’re running 10.4, be sure to go to System Preferences -> Spotlight and include your World of Warcraft folder as a private folder not to be indexed.Īlas, for inadequate hardware. I also set Terrain Distance to Medium and Texture Quality to Lowest. Pretty much anything down there is going to result in a tremendous performance hit. This is also known to be a FPS killer on the Mac. Unless you have horrific screen tearing I say live with it and enjoy the FPS. A few things I’ve noticed to help performance: I have an original iMac G5 and I’ve wrestled with the various video settings for some time now. We’ve also had misaligned text in our “Guild” tabs for about 2 months now so the degree to which Blizzard QA cares about this stuff is hard to imagine. They’re allegedly working with ATI and Apple actively to fix the problem. I read something on the Blizzard boards about how there is a documented problem with the latest WoW Patch (1.8.1) and ATI cards. If you want to go kill stuff with me, send me a google talk If I’m cursed to this FPS, what settings do folks think have the best trade-offs relative to performance-versus-quality? Is it just terrain distance and resolution or are there other combos that folks love on the Mac?Īlso, I play on Cenarius.Am I missing something? Is there a switch that needs flipping? I know the drivers are in because there are substantial visually differences in the game, but why the slow FPS?.Ok, so I upped the quality settings a bit, so it’s hard to do a fair comparison, but, folks, I’ve upgraded all of my hardware including the core graphical brain and my FPS blows. Card installed, drivers updated, and HERE COMES WARCRAFT BABY.Īaaaaannd I still feel like I’m walking around in thick air. It was back ordered, so I had to twiddle my thumbs, but it arrived last night and YOU BET I WAS ALL OVER IT. So, I did whatever good nerd would do, I bought more hardware. With the arrival of the G5, I was hoping to see a frame rate improvement even though the video card was effective to the same, but I was shocked to discover that my average frame rate for the same walk in Warcraft was ACTUALLY SLOWER. Turns out that terrain distance had the biggest effect, but whatever switches I flipped, I was happy and proceeded to play for several months before the G5 arrived. If there’s a slider in the video options of the game which allows me to control detail, I always max it out because I feel that’s how the game designers wanted me to see it… high quality, right? On my G4, it was painfully clear that Warcraft was going to be a visual pain if I maxed out the settings, so I surfed a bit and found out which options were the performance versus quality trade-offs. Before I moved over to the new machine, I did a couple of frame rate checks meaning I walked around in Warcraft a bit and unscientifically observed the frame rate which averaged around 11 fps. The home machine, a Dual G4, was recently upgraded to a Dual G5 along with whatever video card came with the standard configuration… some ATI Radeon variant. This is the obligatory, yes, I’ve been playing Warcraft and, yes, it’s eaten a ton of my time, and, yes, I’m saving for my mount and, dear lord, telling all of you sure isn’t helping my self confidence.
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