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Acaciaizm Semi 
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07-24-08, 08:12 AM
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A Kobold Labourer
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I must say, it's been quite a process trying to retro-fit the awesome UI's I want to actually work with my dated computer. I'm really excited to try this out. It looks great and has all the addon's I really need.
Just out of curiosity, how is the FPS capped at 30? I usually get about 59FPS indoors and in 5-man instances, it's just the outside world that I chug along at a measly 20-30 FPS. Is this cap something I can adjust? Thank you for putting together such a workable UI. Again, I'm excited to put this to the test.  |
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07-22-08, 08:34 AM
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A Murloc Raider
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Some reasoning behind this UI
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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 <.<) ------- END EDIT ------- 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)
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Last edited by Acacia_ : 06-24-09 at 03:12 PM.
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