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04 Sep, 2007

World of Warcraft on a MacBook Pro

Posted by: Jason Burns In: PC Gaming| World of Warcraft

You knew it was coming. Dawn talked me into it, and I decided to give it a shot. I installed World of Warcraft on my MacBook Pro. My character is still the level 40 Undead Warlock I had months and months ago. So, with that, here are my thoughts:

It took me two attempts to install it. This is something I blame on the MacBook Pro actually. I have noticed that I cannot pick up the laptop while it is reading the optical drive. When I put any torque on the case, it seems to cause problems with the drive. I did move it while installing and on the 5th disc of course, it failed.

The second attempt I did without moving it and it worked perfectly, albeit it slowly! It took about 30 minutes to install it, and another few hours to get it all updated (1.5GB+ of downloads.)

I am having a problem with the game graphically, but it’s not exactly frame rates. I am getting decent frame rates (30+) with all graphics at max, the problem is that when I run it full screen it has this jerking quality while walking. The same issue does not exist when I have it in windowed mode.

So here I am, Philoking (obviously) on Kel’Thuzad if you wanna say hello. If you have some ideas to fix my nagging issue, leave me some comments. For your information, the laptop is the 2.2Ghz MBP with 2GB Ram and the 128MB GeForce 8600M GT.

5 Responses to "World of Warcraft on a MacBook Pro"

1 | jason byrne

September 7th, 2007 at 3:16 pm

Correction… you are Philoboy on Kel’Thuzad. You signed up for your account prior to being crowned a king.

2 | nuxx

December 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

It’s an acknowledged issue:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=942814498&sid=1&pageNo=6

Basically a driver flaw… the command:
/console maxfps 24
Fixes the issue for now… replace 24 with whatever number you expect the game to never drop below.

- nuxx

3 | Christian

February 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm

I like OSX but I play WoW on PC. I’m thinking about replacing my PC now, but I have one question: how do you right click on a MacBook Pro? That would drive me nuts in WoW.

4 | Jason Burns

February 22nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Christian » Christian, you have options my friend!

tap the pad with two fingers instead of one
press ctrl and click
hold two fingers on the pad and click

Apparently Steve Jobs things that adding a right button is too complicated so it would be much better to have three different combinations. Makes sense to me…I think….wait, no it doesn’t make any sense….split that damned button in two ya freaks!

5 | Adam Ray

October 13th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

I’m sure your mouse problem is long solved, but for future readers:

Get a real mouse! (Not talking about the touchpad-I actually like the two finger right click better than a button once you get used to it.) Don’t even bother taking that Apple mouse out of the box. There are no redeeming qualities to it. Except, perhaps, some think it is ascetically pleasing.

-It has horrible tracking speed that you can never seem to adjust adequately.
-The shape is not only not ergonomic at all, but uncomfortable and painful to use for anyone that has hands bigger than a 6 year old.
-Even the new Mighty Mouse which has touch sensitive “right” button requires you to lift your finger off the mouse to touch it again. Again, you finger will start to hurt after a longer session.
-The scroll ball is worthless.
-And the list goes on.

Apple usually manages to find form AND function in their products. Their mice have always undisputedly lacked the latter and (in my opinion) usually lacked the former as well.

I’ll give them a little credit for at least trying with the Mighty Mouse, but they still failed miserably at making a useful piece of equipment. Rare for Apple.

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