PowerPC performance tweak
by Elizabeth Harper 
Oct 15th 2006 at 12:45PM
This tweak was reported to us by reader Blake some time back, but I've only recently had the chance to test it out myself. And, like most of the respondents in this thread, I agree that there's a noticeable improvement in framerate, though Blizzard poster Tigerclaw comments that the performance impact will really only effect those with heavy UI usage. The feature, added in patch 1.12.1, is designed for PowerPC Macs (the Intel systems already use "a better mode of optimization" according to Tigerclaw) with more than 512MB RAM, as it may add a couple of extra megabytes of memory usage. It's still considered a beta feature, but it's easy to enable and easy to disable if you have trouble with it. So if you run on a PowerPC system, give this a shot -- you may notice a 5-15% improvement (though some report even better improvements).
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zaph Oct 15th 2006 5:08PM
After trying this feature, I noticed my frame rate going from an average of around 8-12 fps to around 15-20 fps =)
Shra Oct 16th 2006 10:09PM
At first I noticed an improvement, however I later noticed that every 4 seconds or so my frame rate would "dip" tremendously for a moment. It was so annoying that I removed the tweak. My overall framerate is back down but at least it's a consistent rate now.