Players of 'World of Warcraft' will be able to continue gaming on the new M1-equipped Macs, with Blizzard's latest patch adding native support for Apple Silicon.
Play World of Warcraft? The WoW Companion App lets you make the most of your time in Azeroth from wherever you are. LEAD ADVENTURES: Send your covenant companions on adventures through the Shadowlands, all while you're on the go. Compose your party, strategize your board layout, collect rewards f. Apple has released a new version of the macOS operating system - Big Sur - as well as new hardware - Mac Mini and laptops powered by Apple M1 ARM silicon. Let's take a look at how well it can run World of Warcraft. MacOS 11 Big Sur brings the usual changes and improvements to the operating system. I've dusted out my old Mac Mini from.
This item: World of Warcraft - PC/Mac by Blizzard Entertainment Windows Vista / XP / 98 / Me / 2000 / 95, Mac OS 9 and below, Linux, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Intel $15.97 In Stock. Ships from and sold by DealTavern USA. Being a long time World of Warcraft player and Mac user, I had wondered if World of Warcraft would be ported over to the new Apple M1 chip. Central time last night the following forum post was made on Blizzard: With this week's patch 9.0.2, we're adding native Apple Silicon support to World of Warcraft.
In a post made to its community forums, Blizzard advised the 9.0.2 patch due this week for 'World of Warcraft' will 'run natively on ARM64 architecture, rather than emulation via Rosetta.'
Rosetta 2 is Apple's translation software to enable programs made for x86 architecture to function properly on the new M1 system-on-chip. Using Rosetta 2 will impact a program's performance, so shifting to native support frees up resources that can be put towards rendering the game at a higher frame rate or quality.
What is the best free photo editing software. 'We're pleased to have native day one support for Apple Silicon,' Blizzard adds. The game company also warned that it is 'highly aware of the nature of day one support with updates like this' and asks users to report any issues that may be related to Apple Silicon to its Mac technical support forum.
The announcement by Blizzard is encouraging for the gaming industry, as 'World of Warcraft' continues to be one of the more important games being played today. The native support may encourage other developers to rework their games to do the same, instead of taking the small performance hit from Rosetta.
Blizzard's announcement follows similar moves by Pixelmator, Adobe, Parallels, and VMWare to support M1.
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