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I no longer play on my old MacBook as it was unbearable playing Wrath on it considering the integrated gfx chip. I do however still play on a laptop, a Dell XPS M1330 which should be the equivalent performance wise to the new 13" MacBooks and 13" MacBook Pros.

The UI is hence still tailored to a laptop environment, however, not as memory efficient as it previously was (thank god, more addons ftw <.<)


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I made this UI because I got myself a MacBook, and as anyone having a MacBook knows, their not really optimal for playing any games.

(Let me just point out here and now that you will have no issues using this UI on a PC, or with higher resolutions, you might just need to adjust the font sizes for some add-ons if you use a different resolution, and if you have a nice beefed up monster computer, you really don't need to read all of this ).


After reading some rather depressing threads on the official forms about optimizing settings for MacBooks, this is what I play with at the moment.

My MacBook is a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB RAM.
The RAM does help quite a bit, so if you have a similar configuration but with less ram, I suggest you lower some settings according to below.



Though it's not really optimal to use some of the texture settings with this UI (just lower them if you encounter any issues), it still works fairly well on my computer. You will of course have lag in Shattrath which isn't really avoidable, but instancing and leveling should be fairly smooth.

I'm also fairly sure that you could lower the load on your computer by exchanging the bar, and unit frame add-ons. I just realized I couldn't live without them

To that end, I've also included Bartender4 and Buttonfacade if you want to exchange Bartender3 and cyCircled (somewhat less demanding).


As I do not raid on the MacBook, I've not included add-ons such as oRA or BigWigs though feel free to add them yourself if you need them or any other add-ons.


(and before anyone asks, no, pMinimap doesn't have a configuration option, you will need to edit the add-on files to make any changes)

The general thought is that if you cap the frame rate, the computer doesn't have to work as hard, pushing it up. You can of course cap it at a higher number, or play with it to see what fits your spec

Just use the console command as detailed on the add-on info page:
/console set maxfps xx

... where the xx is the number you want to use.


Hope it works out for you

I've set the cap on the principle that your computer (gfx card) always *wants* to push up the fps as high as possible, resulting in higher resources being spent to that end. 30 is about what I am happy with as a high cap on my macbook which sucks for playing games. The cap basically tells the computer to be content when it reaches 30, and never mind trying to get it higher. Sorta.

Pre patch 3.0.2, I could have confidently told you that this should be a good UI for you. Right now however, some add-ons are being reworked and I can't guarantee that some of them won't be more demanding for a while than they used to be. But I can say you could definitely give it a shot.


I would really help if I could see a screenshot but just to be sure that your re-naming your folders correctly:

Place all of the folders in the pack in your root World of Warcraft folder like so:

World of Warcraft:
- WTF
- Fonts
- Interface
--- Addons

In the WTF folder, you need to rename 3 folders:

WTF
- Account
-- ACCOUNT NAME (needs to be your account name)
--- Server (Needs to be your server name)
---- Character (Needs to be your Character name)

If you have several characters, you need to copy the character folder several times for each char.

If it still doesn't look right, I've probably screwed something up with the packaging. If so, when you log into the game, set the following add-ons to the "Default" profile:

Bartender4 (/bt4)
ClassTimer (/classtimer)
SLDataText (/sldt)
Satrina Buff Frames (/sbf options)


Again, I'll have another update within a few days, there are many add-ons that are being updated pretty regularity right now.

Firstly you have a different resolution from what the pack was originally created for so somethings are going to be off. Secondly, load the default add-on profiles as instructed below and it'll look better

Right, I've gone through the SavedVariables folder and checked the .lua files of the add-ons that won't load the profile properly.

The add-ons Bartender4 (/bt4), SatrinaBuff Frames (/sbf options), ClassTimer (/classtimer) and SLDataText (/sldt) does NOT save character specific settings in the <Character> folder any longer.

Which in turn means that I can't pack up the settings so that it can be "layout done" when you log in. Anyone downloading these add-ons in my (or anyone else's for that matter) pack, must set these add-ons to the "default" profile manually upon first login. This is also true for any additional characters that you want to use the pack for.

I know the standard for "Ace 3" add-ons follows the principle of character specific profiles, and not "default" as done earlier with Ace 2, which is what's causing this.

Update Satrina from the beta addon that's available here on Wowinterface. Satrina has done about 3 updates since I uploaded the pack.

My screen resolution if from wide screen laptops, that's also why your UI looks different from mine, you'll have to manually go in and adjust those.

I'll probably have a new version up soon again with alot of add-on fixes.