(MAC) Performance / Freezing / Lags / FPS drops

[sebstrgg]

Hi,

I just unboxed my second MBP (late-2016 / i7-6700HQ / 16GB RAM / Radeon Pro 450) yesterday, since I returned the other one as DOA (exat same specs) when DOTA 2 wasn't playable at all.

The fps is very unstable causing freezes and very poor performance, making it almost impossible to play.

I've tried all available resolutions based off of different scaling in the display settings without any luck, from basic to best looking details in dota. It's all the same on the SECOND computer in a couple of days. I've also tried to only allow high performance graphics (energy saving option to only use the dedicated GPU), which made it a little better (in terms of FPS), but still unplayable. When running on dedicated GPU only also caused DOTA 2 to crash as soon as the first enemy team creeps would become visible in a bot game.

Just to make sure it wasn't the computer, I also tried installing CS:GO, Rocket League and Stardew Valley and all of them works perfectly great - CS:GO even gave me around 200 fps in medium/low settings. (All in mac native mode, not via bootcamp)

Any ideas of how to make the only game I'm really interested in having to work on my MBP, to work?

Computer Information: Manufacturer: Apple Model: MacBookPro13,3 Form Factor: Laptop No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information: CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz CPU Family: 0x6 CPU Model: 0x5e CPU Stepping: 0x3 CPU Type: 0x0 Speed: 2600 Mhz 8 logical processors 4 physical processors HyperThreading: Supported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Unsupported SSE41: Supported SSE42: Supported AES: Supported AVX: Supported CMPXCHG16B: Supported LAHF/SAHF: Supported PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version: MacOS 10.12.6 (64 bit)

Video Card: Driver: Intel HD Graphics 530 Driver Version: 1.2 Driver Date: 0 0 0 OpenGL Version: 2.1 Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel Monitor Refresh Rate: 0 Hz VendorID: 0x8086 DeviceID: 0x191b Revision: 0x6 Number of Monitors: 1 Number of Logical Video Cards: 2 Primary Display Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Primary Display Size: 12.99" x 8.11" (15.31" diag) 33.0cm x 20.6cm (38.9cm diag) Primary VRAM: 0 MB

Memory: RAM: 16384 Mb

Miscellaneous: UI Language: English Media Type: DVD Total Hard Disk Space Available: 238112 Mb Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 160000 Mb VR Headset: None detected

[gdrewb-valve]

Likely the same problems as the other open Mac perf and stability issues here (#1259 / #1208 / #1188 / #1101).

[swiftMag3]

+1 Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,3 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 8 MB Memory: 16 GB

Intel HD Graphics 630:

Chipset Model: Intel HD Graphics 630

Radeon Pro 560:

Chipset Model: Radeon Pro 560 Type: GPU Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x8 VRAM (Total): 4 GB

OSX 10.13

[gdrewb-valve]

Now that the Vulkan support for macOS is out how does it compare on your systems?

[swiftMag3]

Just knew it supports Vulkan now as I haven’t played for a long time because of this issue.. will try to use vulkan and see how it is now.