World Of Warcraft with MBP

Hi there everyone,
I am considering purchasing a MacBookPro in the coming weeks and I am an avid World Of Warcraft player. I know there has been a universal update for WoW, however I am not sure (nor am I able to find out) any fps recordings for a MacBookPro running WoW on high resolution with the following system specifications:
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
1GB DDR2 memory
100GB Serial ATA
ATI Radeon X1600 256MB
4x SuperDrive
Built-in AirPort Extreme
Built-in Bluetooth 2.0
Built-in iSight
I have played WoW on a PC with the similiar specs for years now, but want to know what the results will be like with one of these shiny new MBP's.
Thanks in advance!

I was previously playing WoW on my iBook, which to me was good enough (but Ironforge was deadly, as was the fact it took ages foro textures to load up etc.) - but I bought the better of the two MacBook Pros, and upgraded to 1Gb memory - WoW was an unbelievable dream - it let me turn up all the graphic details... I had never even seen death effect before... the game suddenly looked gorgeous, textures and colours and sharpness I had never seen.. also ran very very smoothly, no lag, I could actually type in guild chat whilst on a grif... I have no idea about FPS and all that stuff and of course the MB Pro was going to be imeasurably better to me than an iBook, but even PC playing friends with decently specced machines were saying it looked and ran really well.
... slight technical hitch in this otherwise happy tale, is that about a week after getting my MacBook Pro, it stopped working - it started with WoW, getting error messages and booting me out... I tried to run the OS update which mentioned a fix to WoW, but it wouldn't let me, then I got the black screen with yellow and red along the top.... I tried to reinstall OSX and that wouldn't work either, it had been getting pretty hot too - so it is currently back with Apple (and has been for nearly a month), I have no idea what was wrong, they thought memory on the phone, but I'm still waiting for it to come back so I can play WoW on a decent machine again!
... I may just have been unlucky, I hope so as £2k is a lot of money hehe

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Hi and Welcome!
It may help if we know the variant of your MBP. Some have serious video chipset issues that can complicate troubleshooting. Do "About this Mac..." from the Apple menu, then click "More Info..." in the resulting window. This opens System Profiler and, on its opening pane, is a complete description of your variant as "Hardware Overview." Copy/paste that info here, BEING SURE to omit your serial number. I'm on one of our older Macs now but the info should roughly parallel this format:
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,6
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.25 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 1.75 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.4.8f2
Serial Number: /deleted/
The second line, which under Snow Leopard reads "Model Identifier" will uniquely call out your variant for us.
Those with the second line of Profiler stating "MacBookPro3,1" or "MacBookPro4,1" are subject to a Repair Extension Program for a defective video chipset.
If the identifier is 5,1 or greater, your computer is covered in the forums for newer MBPS here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=251

Grey screen every time with MBP Retina

Hi,
I got a strange behaviour of my MBP Retina. After upgrading to Mountain Lion it may not start. I have a grey screen, Safe Mode doesn't pass. Restore works, MBP boots OK then, can even restart and shutdown OK few times. But if the shut down period is long (more than 3-4h) I got a grey screen again.
I tried all the tricks with premissions restore, resetting PRAM, uninstalled Parallels and Little snitch, run Onyx for Mountai Lion and cleaned everything, everything from startup apps list. Nothing happens. I got a grey screen again, almost every day, then re-install the OS, and it works OK until next shutdown. SSD is OK, MBP has no hangs/freezes, works great after OSX reinstall, then again - grey screen. Verbose Mode hangs after a list of "FIPS USER Space Post" - all success, no mistakes. Before there is a message "Kernel is LP64", and the a string "/dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)"
Please, give some advise!

Sorry to bring this topic again, i have the same exact symptoms in here, and i suspect that its a third party aswell bugging me around doign this grey screens. ( had this for 3 days now after shutting down it gets back to grey screen but after i do a couple of stuff i can get it back to work. )
I already have the latest firmwares etc and updates i would say.
heres the etrecheck scan. ( ignore wow open )
Hardware Information:
    iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
    iMac - model: iMac13,2
    1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores
    16 GB RAM
Video Information:
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
    OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 2:12:19
Disk Information:
    APPLE HDD WDC WD10EALX-408EA0 disk1 : (1 TB)
        EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
        disk1s2 (disk1s2) <not mounted>: 937,52 GB
        Recovery HD (disk1s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
        BOOTCAMP (disk1s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 61,83 GB (16,99 GB free)
    APPLE SSD SM128E disk0 : (121,33 GB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
        disk0s2 (disk0s2) <not mounted>: 120,99 GB
        Boot OS X (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 134,2 MB
USB Information:
    Razer Razer Lachesis
    C-Media Electronics Inc.       USB PnP Sound Device
    Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
    Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
    com.steelseries.BoardListener    (8.39 - SDK 10.6)
    com.tuxera.filesystems.tufsfs.fusefs_txantfs    (2012.4.17)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
    [System]    at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
    [System]    at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
    [not loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [not loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [not loaded]    com.spotify.webhelper.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [not loaded]    com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
    None
Internet Plug-ins:
    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.38 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
    AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.1 3rd-Party support link
    Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.38 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
    JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
    Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Audio Plug-ins:
    BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
    AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
    AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9
    iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
    Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
    Java 3rd-Party support link
Bad Fonts:
    None
Old Applications:
    Install Spotify:    Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
        /Users/[redacted]/Downloads/Install Spotify.app
    SA Color Finesse 3 UI:    Version: 3.0.6(275) - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
        /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Plug-ins/Effects/Synthetic Aperture/(CF3 Support)/SA Color Finesse 3 UI.app
    dynamiclinkmanager:    Version: 6.0.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
        /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/dynamiclink/CS6/dynamiclinkmanager.app
    dynamiclinkmediaserver:    Version: 6.0.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
        /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/dynamiclinkmediaserver/1.0/dynamiclinkmediaserver.app
Time Machine:
    Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
       116%    installd
        38%    World of Warcraft
        10%    WindowServer
         7%    firefox
         3%    storeagent
Top Processes by Memory:
    1.28 GB    World of Warcraft
    770 MB    firefox
    239 MB    installd
    164 MB    mds_stores
    164 MB    com.apple.IconServicesAgent
Virtual Memory Information:
    4.18 GB    Free RAM
    5.21 GB    Active RAM
    5.03 GB    Inactive RAM
    1.58 GB    Wired RAM
    656 MB    Page-ins
    0 B    Page-outs

World of Warcraft MacBook Pro 17"

Hi,
I know this isn't the best place to post a question like this, but it seems as if it's the only active place where I might get a response in a relatively quick amount of time.
I am curious as to whether or not anyone here has ran World of Warcraft on their MBP at the full visual settings, and whether or not it runs the game smoothly, without issue.
And, if it so happens you have a glossy screen, how does that affect the visual look?
Thanks a lot.
b. powers

Settings Sliders set to 50%
Server = Lightninghoof - Alliance
Ironforge AH Bridge = from 35 to 84 depending on time of day.
EPL and WPL = from 35 to 94 depending on time of day.
ZG = 35 to 70.
AV = 35 to 50.
AB = 35 to 70.
MC = 41+
AQ40 = 41+
I run it under OSX as I have no need for Windows XP. I had to do two things to get it to run like this...
1) Make sure you have your vert sync turned off under Esc>Video settings.
2) Also, browse to Applications>World of Warcraft>*** and open the file Config.*** with TextEdit. Type the following in as the very last line then save:
SET M2Faster "1"
A "GM" told me about this little trick which helps the game run better on Mac's. They will be adding this line in the config file as standard from the next patch / update + more Mac related performance changes.
FPS is all down to what you have set in your viedo settings. Less eye candy = more FPS. I have most all my settings at 50%.

World of Warcraft = 95c

Ok, so the top should help in searches.
The issue is heat, yes it posted everywhere else, yes i understand that my MacBook pro is fist generation (Late 2008 model) and YES i have not read every other post on this.
Sitting here typing this post my machine is running at 50-55c, fans are cranked to 6200rpm using smcFanControl. I have ZERO issues doing the normal day to day things, its when i stress the video/cpu that things, specifically playing world of warcraft, and only on my external monitor.
After roughly 20 min at 1920x1200 the board/cpu temp peaks at 90-95c, yes i can drop it down to about 83c using a laptop cooler however i am curious about something (other than the obviously super hot temps). The initial 20 or so minutes are fine, video is stable, however after a while the system starts to....lag, for lack of a better term. From what i can tell the system is dialing back the cpu to prevent damage, battery life or both.
Is there long term damage considerations from playing even a minority 'hardware stressful' game like warcraft?
Is there a way to manage the system resources so that in 'Performance Mode' the cpu is never dialed back?

I have the same problem you do. I'm disappointed in the WoW performance. I have the late 2008 MBP with a 24" second monitor.
The graphic settings are:
2x sampling
max FPS capped at 40
ground clutter in the middle
view distance at 777
shadow quality set at low
i get stutters as the graphics card loads in new textures, poor performance in Dalaran and not to mention the over heating issues. You mean to tell me no one at Apple forsaw the heating issue? <sarcasm>I know WoW is a small game and barely anyone in the computer community plays it.</sarcasm> Apple, didn't you test this out?
I get the same frame rates you do. For the money we paid out for this laptop, i would expect something better.

World Of Warcraft with MBP

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