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Do you remember whether their fans were making alot of noise or not?
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Do you remember whether their fans were making alot of noise or not?
I would assume he filmed his review before Blizzard released the update. So he is probably running WoW with Rosetta.
Yes, we already know it’s WoW, but what do you think about how it’s running?
Dave2D ran SC2 on it. Seemed to run fine. If SC/SC2 should both run.
1. how long did you play?
2. did you notice any fps drop because of the throttling down the air does to combat the heat? This only applies if you played 2-3 hrs in one sitting.
Next time you play it can you try running with higher settings but lower resolution scaling. Seems like the MBA can do setting 7 at 1080p
If you can, play an extended WoW session and let us know if it gets hot and starts to throttle. I have hear conflicting reports of throttling with the air. Have heard no to little throttling even after extended sessions of WoW on the air and have heard the opposite.
I have been trying to play throughout today and I have the game running at 2560x1600 with shadows/water notched down, sunshafts and ssao turned off and the sliders for view distance etc set to 10. Runs at 60fps but the game crashes after 5-20 odd minutes of play. Doesn’t seem to be any reason for the crash. The display freezes but the game continues to run, you can still hear spells etc being cast when you press the keys. It did this on the Rosetta version as well but after a shorter period of time.
I flew up to kill Nathanos for the world quest and it ran at 60fps even with a whole storm of spell effects which was well impressive. Hopefully the crash bug is fixed because it will be a solid experience on the Air once the crashing stops.
I played Diablo 3 for an hour to heat the Air up a bit to check that it wasn’t a hardware fault and Diablo 3 (under Rosetta) runs really well. 45+ - 60 FPS. The Air gets really warm but I would stop short of calling it as hot as my 15” late 2016 pro gets when playing games.
I flew up to kill Nathanos for the world quest and it ran at 60fps even with a whole storm of spell effects which was well impressive. Hopefully the crash bug is fixed because it will be a solid experience on the Air once the crashing stops.
I played Diablo 3 for an hour to heat the Air up a bit to check that it wasn’t a hardware fault and Diablo 3 (under Rosetta) runs really well. 45+ - 60 FPS. The Air gets really warm but I would stop short of calling it as hot as my 15” late 2016 pro gets when playing games.
wow is what I think! hahahhYes, we already know it’s WoW, but what do you think about how it’s running?
Ok, played WoW for the first time since the hotfix that stopped tHe game crashing and it’s superb. At 2560x1600 100% scale I found that if I cap frames at 45, turn down shadows and water, turn off sunshafts and SSAO the Air barely gets warm. You also get a consistent experience, nice and smooth regardless of where you are. I also turned off the target frame rate mode that automatically scales as it is not needed. I played for 4.5 hrs and it was rock solid, the Air got warmish but closer to cool than hot if that makes sense. I would have no problem doing a longer play session on the Air (8GB 512GB storage).
Got the M1 Mac Mini. Playing this game whilst alternating on the Asus G14 (4900HS Vega 8 iGPU or 2060 RTX). The Mac mini M1 is always silent though does get a little warm based on the air being blown out.
Playing in 2560 x 1440 (4K monitor so main resolution is 4K). Targeting up to 60 fps with lots of drops.
Main Settings set at 7(draw distance etc) but other graphics at Good or low. Some stuff is slightly glitchy including screen flashing lighter or darker a little?
Overall its like a 1050 GTX I would say. Which is impressive for a built in GPU. The lack of noise is most impressive.
Playing in 2560 x 1440 (4K monitor so main resolution is 4K). Targeting up to 60 fps with lots of drops.
Main Settings set at 7(draw distance etc) but other graphics at Good or low. Some stuff is slightly glitchy including screen flashing lighter or darker a little?
Overall its like a 1050 GTX I would say. Which is impressive for a built in GPU. The lack of noise is most impressive.
Does anyone know if:
(a) WoW Classic is also Apple Silicon native or if it's just Shadowlands?
(b) The Blizzard Launcher is Apple Silicon native?
(c) Any other Blizzard game is currently or is imminently about to be Apple Silicon native?
(a) WoW Classic is also Apple Silicon native or if it's just Shadowlands?
(b) The Blizzard Launcher is Apple Silicon native?
(c) Any other Blizzard game is currently or is imminently about to be Apple Silicon native?
No, different engine. But runs great. I am using a base 8GB Mac Mini M1 at max settings, not a single issue.
Yes, that is.
I don't believe there are any current plans, but that may change. I have tried Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2, both run fine under Rosetta.
What's more to the point, neither Diablo II nor Diablo IV has a confirmed Mac release, in fact, they explicitly state "not available for Mac". Seems like Blizzard is giving up on Mac users.