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@all - Blizzard is working on a fix for SC... 6,258 Views / 30 Replies  
@all -

Blizzard is working on a fix for SC and D2 under 10.5.3 / 10.5.4. Can't offer an ETA but the engineering end is already moving on it.

@Johnny_B-
In patch 1.12, GL mode now works on...
Posted by rbarris, on Jul 10, 2008 at 01:02 AM, in Gaming
Well there are two kinds of answers to big... 4,372 Views / 101 Replies  
Well there are two kinds of answers to big questions like the one posed, there's the "I know but can't tell you" style and the "Sorry, that topic hasn't even crossed my desk" style. In this case my...
Posted by rbarris, on May 31, 2007 at 07:02 PM, in Gaming
Thanks for the feedback, hope to be able to share... 4,372 Views / 101 Replies  
Thanks for the feedback, hope to be able to share more details as they become available.
Posted by rbarris, on May 30, 2007 at 01:51 PM, in Gaming
One thing to look at is our existing UB games... 4,372 Views / 101 Replies  
One thing to look at is our existing UB games like War3 and WoW. In these cases the advantage of Intel systems (dual cores standard, on-chip 2MB L2 and up, 667MHz memory bus and up) is plainly...
Posted by rbarris, on May 29, 2007 at 01:50 PM, in Gaming
Firstly, neither the official release date or... 4,372 Views / 101 Replies  
Firstly, neither the official release date or system requirements have been released or decided.

The engine in this game is much richer than the one in Warcraft III, both from a graphics POV as...
Posted by rbarris, on May 27, 2007 at 07:08 PM, in Gaming
While SC2 does use some licensed technologies... 4,372 Views / 101 Replies  
While SC2 does use some licensed technologies such as Havok, the graphics engine is developed in-house (as well as AI, gameplay, networking..).
Posted by rbarris, on May 20, 2007 at 09:25 PM, in Gaming
This is covered in the FAQ, but as with previous... 4,372 Views / 101 Replies  
This is covered in the FAQ, but as with previous titles we are aiming for a simultaneous Windows & MacOS X release.

The finer points of the system requirements (not yet decided) have to do with...
Posted by rbarris, on May 19, 2007 at 01:17 PM, in Gaming
System requirements have not yet been announced. 4,372 Views / 101 Replies  
System requirements have not yet been announced.
Posted by rbarris, on May 19, 2007 at 12:52 PM, in Gaming
Be sure to check out our new Starcraft II page at... 4,372 Views / 101 Replies  
Be sure to check out our new Starcraft II page at

http://www.starcraft2.com
Posted by rbarris, on May 19, 2007 at 04:46 AM, in Gaming
The memory leak with switching between windowed... 750 Views / 3 Replies  
The memory leak with switching between windowed and full screen was fixed by OS X 10.4.9.

You should find as you start to run other applications after quitting WoW, that the inactive number may...
Posted by rbarris, on Apr 15, 2007 at 01:03 PM, in macOS
I'd start by turning anisotropic filtering down... 727 Views / 12 Replies  
I'd start by turning anisotropic filtering down to minimum, and disable full screen glow, and see where that gets you.

Laptop GPU's just don't have the memory bandwidth that desktop GPU's do, and...
Posted by rbarris, on Jan 24, 2007 at 06:18 PM, in Gaming
Glad you like it. We have shipped the... 727 Views / 12 Replies  
Glad you like it.

We have shipped the universal application of WoW since Feb 2006; the way the Mac support is set up, all users get the same version of the app, so all players on MacOS have the...
Posted by rbarris, on Jan 23, 2007 at 01:12 AM, in Gaming
Warcraft III v1.21 2,000 Views / 17 Replies  
Today we're releasing the OS X universal binary patch for Warcraft III. It is available as an automatic patch by connecting to battle.net.
Posted by rbarris, on Jan 22, 2007 at 06:36 PM, in Gaming
WoW 2.0.1 including the MT-GL support shipped... 2,688 Views / 15 Replies  
WoW 2.0.1 including the MT-GL support shipped today, and MT-GL is now enabled by default on systems that support it (Presently this means Intel Mac with 10.4.8 or higher).
Posted by rbarris, on Dec 6, 2006 at 12:56 AM, in Gaming
WoW performs well on the Intel Mac under 10.4.7,... 2,688 Views / 15 Replies  
WoW performs well on the Intel Mac under 10.4.7, though not multi-threaded yet.

10.4.8 provides multi-threaded OpenGL on Intel Mac, but the current version of WoW (1.12.1) does not have the full...
Posted by rbarris, on Nov 5, 2006 at 02:43 AM, in Gaming
WoW OpenGL option on PowerPC (v1.12.1) 838 Views / 1 Replies  
If you play WoW on a PowerPC system, you may want to try this new feature, which is in an experimental form in the 1.12.1 release:
...
Posted by rbarris, on Sep 26, 2006 at 11:08 PM, in Gaming
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topi... 1,228 Views / 7 Replies  
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=27903320&sid=1

seems OK to that player..
Posted by rbarris, on Sep 16, 2006 at 10:31 PM, in Gaming
We're aware of the performance deficit under OS X... 6,621 Views / 24 Replies  
We're aware of the performance deficit under OS X and have some new work in store that should help.

On the current version of WoW, best settings on a machine like that are to have the one checkbox...
Posted by rbarris, on Sep 13, 2006 at 05:24 PM, in Gaming
secret handshake, little text file you drop in... 6,621 Views / 24 Replies  
secret handshake, little text file you drop in preferences, nothing fancy.
Posted by rbarris, on Sep 7, 2006 at 08:18 PM, in Gaming
I believe that for machines that have dual core... 6,621 Views / 24 Replies  
I believe that for machines that have dual core Intel processors and discrete GPU's (MacBook Pro, iMac, MacPro Xeon) you will basically see frame rate parity between WoW/OS X and WoW/Windows on the...
Posted by rbarris, on Sep 7, 2006 at 12:54 AM, in Gaming
Try it again with the full screen glow unchecked... 2,760 Views / 28 Replies  
Try it again with the full screen glow unchecked (you said you had everything maxed?).

Glow is the big FPS killer on the Mac client presently.
Posted by rbarris, on Feb 8, 2006 at 12:58 PM, in Gaming
You're welcome! Have fun with it! Rob 974 Views / 4 Replies  
You're welcome! Have fun with it!

Rob
Posted by rbarris, on Feb 7, 2006 at 07:38 PM, in Gaming
It won't be all that long before the WoW UA... 2,760 Views / 28 Replies  
It won't be all that long before the WoW UA (1.9.3) is out and we can set aside the discussion of its performance under emulation.

The new iMac is very fast, though if you do dial every one of the...
Posted by rbarris, on Feb 4, 2006 at 03:05 PM, in Gaming
it's actually two jokes in one. The other one is... 1,520 Views / 28 Replies  
it's actually two jokes in one. The other one is the infamous "Does 0.999... == 1?" thread from the Blizzard forums..
Posted by rbarris, on Sep 1, 2005 at 08:09 PM, in Gaming
I don't have any information on how the pricing... 1,520 Views / 28 Replies  
I don't have any information on how the pricing model was arrived at, nor would I be in a position to discuss how that all works, even if I did. Just personally speaking, I feel it is priced fairly...
Posted by rbarris, on Sep 1, 2005 at 06:11 PM, in Gaming
I don't see any more than 0.999(repeating of... 1,520 Views / 28 Replies  
I don't see any more than 0.999(repeating of course) * 10^3 threads about WoW here..

carry on.
Posted by rbarris, on Sep 1, 2005 at 12:08 PM, in Gaming
Which shader effect options do you have on? 7,667 Views / 67 Replies  
Which shader effect options do you have on?
Posted by rbarris, on Jul 29, 2005 at 12:04 AM, in Gaming
Something is definitely wrong here.. pick a... 7,667 Views / 67 Replies  
Something is definitely wrong here.. pick a couple favorite indoor/outdoor locations and mail me a screenshot of the FPS you are getting there, for extra credit put Activity Monitor in the background...
Posted by rbarris, on Jul 25, 2005 at 10:01 PM, in Gaming
Are you running any UI mods, and have you checked... 7,667 Views / 67 Replies  
Are you running any UI mods, and have you checked your FPS with the mods disabled if so?

We have been looking into some weird FPS drops that may be UI mod related, thus the question.
Posted by rbarris, on Jul 23, 2005 at 12:03 PM, in Gaming
were you running 1.10 before ? 2,005 Views / 24 Replies  
subject says it all - were you running the 1.0 version from the CD or had you previously patched to 1.10 or better ?
Posted by rbarris, on Jul 18, 2005 at 12:23 AM, in Gaming
We had it running at the login screen on Tuesday... 853 Views / 5 Replies  
We had it running at the login screen on Tuesday night at WWDC :) Network authentication issues prevented us from moving any further with it at the time. We have an Intel developer unit at Blizzard...
Posted by rbarris, on Jun 29, 2005 at 02:02 AM, in Gaming
mission accomplished 2,294 Views / 48 Replies  
mission accomplished
Posted by rbarris, on Jun 24, 2005 at 11:59 AM, in Gaming
Anyone play WoW on this board? 2,294 Views / 48 Replies  
just curious.

Rob
Posted by rbarris, on Jun 24, 2005 at 01:53 AM, in Gaming
StarCraft 1.12 is out 746 Views / 2 Replies  
and I'm not kidding, it's here!
Posted by rbarris, on Feb 16, 2005 at 10:25 PM, in Gaming
Re: 10.3.8 and WoW 1,409 Views / 9 Replies  
If you have a GeForce 4MX chipset - disable vertex animation shaders. They should not be enabled on that GPU, this is a bug of ours which will be fixed in the next patch.
Posted by rbarris, on Feb 10, 2005 at 02:32 AM, in Gaming
Reverb isn't yet implemented on the Mac client,... 1,806 Views / 23 Replies  
Reverb isn't yet implemented on the Mac client, this affects indoors in particular.
Posted by rbarris, on Feb 8, 2005 at 01:19 PM, in Gaming
Wanted to add, it seems to be a common thing for... 1,806 Views / 23 Replies  
Wanted to add, it seems to be a common thing for people with single processor G5 towers as well as the iMac G5 - make sure your CPU performance setting has been put on Highest and not Automatic - one...
Posted by rbarris, on Feb 2, 2005 at 07:10 PM, in Gaming
I'm not aware of any "blaming each other" going... 1,806 Views / 23 Replies  
I'm not aware of any "blaming each other" going on. I'm the primary contact or liaison between Apple and Blizzard on these kinds of issues - our discussions about where API and driver code can be...
Posted by rbarris, on Feb 2, 2005 at 07:09 PM, in Gaming
WoW has been #1 on the Amazon.com "PC Games"... 1,272 Views / 21 Replies  
WoW has been #1 on the Amazon.com "PC Games" sales list for some days or weeks now; I assume this means they have copies to sell. If you run out of local shops to check out, I would give them a shot.
Posted by rbarris, on Jan 8, 2005 at 10:20 PM, in Gaming
While you may notice some performance change with... 3,216 Views / 26 Replies  
While you may notice some performance change with 10.3.7, it would be best to re-examine FPS on Mac WoW after the next patch from Blizzard which will go hand in hand with the new 10.3.7 drivers.
Posted by rbarris, on Dec 15, 2004 at 08:06 PM, in Gaming
feel free to send me a more detailed email with... 1,173 Views / 15 Replies  
feel free to send me a more detailed email with any screenshots or crash logs. We'll figure out what is up and if we need to revise anything or if we need to file bugs with Apple.

rbarris "at"...
Posted by rbarris, on Dec 10, 2004 at 10:34 PM, in Gaming
You're looking at a driver bug; NVIDIA has... 4,978 Views / 67 Replies  
You're looking at a driver bug; NVIDIA has identified a fix that should make it into a driver future update (though not necessarily the very next one you see). We may also have a workaround for that...
Posted by rbarris, on Dec 9, 2004 at 12:29 AM, in Gaming
I suspect this can't be true because there are... 1,576 Views / 14 Replies  
I suspect this can't be true because there are totally different generations of hardware involved between the D2, War3, and WoW servers. But I will ask and be sure..
Posted by rbarris, on Dec 5, 2004 at 03:00 AM, in Gaming
There is indeed one game that has ranked higher... 4,978 Views / 67 Replies  
There is indeed one game that has ranked higher than WoW on that site.

GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com/reviews.html?type=byscore&platform=pc&order=desc&time=alltime)
Posted by rbarris, on Dec 1, 2004 at 01:26 AM, in Gaming
The Blizzard server team is working 24/7 to... 1,576 Views / 14 Replies  
The Blizzard server team is working 24/7 to improve the situation. More hardware, server side software tuning, and some other clever ideas. I've seen some of the details and I am optimistic about...
Posted by rbarris, on Nov 25, 2004 at 01:19 AM, in Gaming
Edit, I had some mass confusion / poor... 2,601 Views / 56 Replies  
Edit, I had some mass confusion / poor recollection here (re 9600 GPU's). Which older card do you have ?

I'm still discussing the fix release cycle with management. We are split between doing a...
Posted by rbarris, on Nov 15, 2004 at 11:58 PM, in Gaming
Did you mean "jugular"? Nothing wrong with... 2,601 Views / 56 Replies  
Did you mean "jugular"?

Nothing wrong with jugglers but OK.
Posted by rbarris, on Nov 1, 2004 at 07:50 PM, in Gaming
3D sounds works nicely with World of Warcraft on... 5,080 Views / 81 Replies  
3D sounds works nicely with World of Warcraft on 10.3.5. Straight up CoreAudio based code, inspired in part by the open source OpenAL implementation (also built on top of CoreAudio).

I have seen...
Posted by rbarris, on Nov 1, 2004 at 07:45 PM, in Gaming
It's no problem at all, we've been actively... 740 Views / 5 Replies  
It's no problem at all, we've been actively spotting sites that don't list the specs correctly for the game, so if you see one, please pass it along to the [email protected] address. ...
Posted by rbarris, on Oct 24, 2004 at 01:48 PM, in Gaming
Re: Warcraft 3 -Best Seller Series- installation problem 1,063 Views / 7 Replies  
Interesting report.

Can you email me at rbarris "at" blizzard.com and if possible, include a screen shot of the CD contents (in list view with all the folders expanded). Bonus points for a...
Posted by rbarris, on Oct 21, 2004 at 01:10 PM, in Gaming
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