Technical Macbook pro overheating issue

[Regardless]

Hey all. I just downloaded the wotlk client on my brand new macbook, but when I start playing the computer heats up significantly and the fans blow pretty hard. This is odd because I'm on the lowest settings getting 60 FPS. Has anyone experienced similar problems?

[calebwrath12]

hello. ive been using mac for a couple of years now, and its been a problem of mine for some time. macs are handy but not quite for gaming. they dont have the specs for these types of games. it will heat up and the fan will turn on almost instantly. its not much of a problem other than noise and heat but my computer hasnt shown any problems from this over the years just try to give it a break. anyways ive been trying to get my wotlk download to work but i havnt gotten it. i am on sierra verion 10.12.3 is there somthing you did that got yours woking. i tried the cmod+x but it isnt working, this is very frustrating i just want to play. if you could help me i would appretiate that :)

[Regardless]

Did you make sure you put a space behind the cmod+x? I was having trouble with it because I forgot a space. Also, I set the realm list within the realm list.wtf folder and within config.wtf. I'm no expert but try that :)

[Pooppickle]

Mobile platforms have a penchant for overheating, be it windows or mac. In windows, we have the ability to go to control panel, power management, and change our maximum cpu state to below 100% in order to manage heat and battery usage at the cost of performance. Do you have any option to do this in OSX? If so, that would be the first step I take to fixing this issue (aside from vsync + lowering settings of course). Next step would be cleaning the internals if that fails.

Maybe also consider changing the affinity of WoW.exe (again not sure how to do this on osx) to a single core/thread. I'm currently running around ironforge max settings around a few dozen people at ~100 fps with WoW relegated to a single core. I could turn them down and get much more and my cpu is a fairly weak, old desktop chip. You could probably manage.

You could also consider downclocking your GPU if the macbook is outfitted with a dGPU, but it is probably an integrated intel chip, and/or undervolting your RAM/CPU from the bios.