This could eventually lead to Overwatch being playable without Windows or Bootcamp.

In the beginning to she would get 100 fps and never crash (on the standard low settings 75 render scale).

Right now she can consistently get 50-60fps, but sometimes when she turns she drops frames like crazy.

This is a really bad experience for her since she loves this game and switched from paladins to overwatch because I recommended it.

She even tried going back to paladins where she gets steady 80fps and no crashes but decided overwatch with crappy fps and crashes is better.

I recommended her to buy a desktop and she wants to, but obviously her parents are an obstacle since they say that she already has a laptop so she doesnt need a desktop.

So my question is.

What is causing these drops in frames and crashes And what can she do to fix these issues Here are her Mac specs: She dedicated 70GB of memory to BootCamp and 180GB for the Mac.

Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by best level 1 11 points 1 year ago Slower speeds and crashes Sounds like thermal issues.

Either she has the laptop on a different surfaceenvironment or its filling up with dust.

But there is hope - because the laptop has Thunderbolt 3 ports, you could get an external GPU box that connects over TB3.

Basically, it allows you to connect a full fledged desktop GPU to a laptop and get those sweet, sweet frame rates and textures.

Overwatch went from playable, to unplayable on integrated graphics.

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In the first place, the first thing she has to do is benchmark if either cpugpu is a bottleneck (imbalanced utilisation) level 1 3 points 1 year ago edited 1 year ago Try logging thermal fan status with benchmarking tools like cpu-z and gpu-z then update us again.

Macbook pro 2018 isnt the best at thermal handling in the first place.

The vent is at the butt so give room for it to fart hot air.

Edit: just saw my laptop, actually idk if it flows thru the back with the hinge design lol.

Also it has few little vents at the side) Get external fan Check for dust buildup in the vent and fan Checkreplace thermal paste.

Undervolt with intel XTU or throttlestop bit by bit (e.g.

Google yourself so you dont screw up but its relatively safe if you do carefully.

Worst case it will crash but you should be able to turn on the laptop again and fine tune until you find the sweet spot.

Who knows if its thermal throttled by windows (not sure about this) FYI some of these might void your warranty if any.

Do you mean she gets 100 fps in the beginning of the day, and it slows down over the course of hours Do you mean that she got 100 fps weeks or months ago, something changed more recently that makes the game perpetually slow now Consider what time frame brought the slowdown and then what might have changed in that system during that time frame.

Heat and dust buildup, as suggested in another comment, is very common in laptops.

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Operating system configuration and driver updates can affect game performance, too.

For what its worth, 16GB is more than enough RAM for Overwatch.

If you and your friend are technically inclined, you might want to keep your eyes on the progress toward DXVK working on MacOS.

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