(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.