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Just installed WoW on my M1 MBP and was blown away by the performance. I was running on battery, graphics set on max and the game was running 60fps without dropping a frame. And the fans never went on.

How is this even possible on such a small machine?

Here's a link for screenshots and video (notice how instant the game closes when exiting)

https://www.notion.so/emads/MBP-M1-Chip-running-WoW-at-60fps...

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I'd be curious to see what happens in a raid. I currently get 60 FPS on my quite old Hackintosh in most places, but when you pack in a lot of spell effects from many tens of players at the same time, performance starts to drop fast. Especially now with the pre-expansion event and the world bosses.

I'd be curious too. I don't play WoW anymore so I won't be investing time to test.

It's important to note that I tested WoW on my MBP 15" 2018 max spec and the game ran ~25fps (Same zone, same character, doing quests) on lower graphics, and my MBP fans were spinning like a freaking jet engine.

That video is stuttering for me and it looks like you have about 10 fps, even when it's completely loaded (but I believe you, no worries, it's just funny) :P

This is Chrome on Linux and I don't usually have problems with video, e.g. YouTube.

It's 60 FPS 2880x1800 video at like 51 Mbps. YouTube's recommendation for 1440p 60 FPS uploads is 24 Mbps and most likely they serve at a lower bitrate.

Try Firefox on FreeBSD, no stuttering on my side :) And it really looks like 60fps very smooth and impressive for a Arm Machine.

That video was definitely 60 fps, no glitches or stuttering.

Would be nice if you set a higher resolution. I wonder what rendering size can you set before FPS dives

Yup, "1440x900" is far from max settings for me

This guy here gets around 43 fps on max: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIbEIhizoXY

>it uses the intel version with rosetta 2 runs smooth.

That's not the native ARM version.

Ah, that was stupid of me.

Small heads up for phone or other bandwidth-constrained users, it's a 200+ MB video.

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