Blizzard Entertainment has released an update to its massively multiplayer on-line role playing gameWorld of Warcraft(WoW ) . The new 2.0.1 update is uncommitted for download from the WoW servers the next time you connect , and have a major execution melioration for Intel - based Mac drug user .
World of Warcraft is the popular on-line RPG available for both Mac OS X and Windows . place in the world of Azeroth , scene of past Warcraft real - metre scheme game battles , WoW puts you in the theatrical role of a hero of various slipstream within the plot that are coordinate into two factions : The Alliance and The Horde . You make your own character , specify what year they ’ll dally as ( non-Christian priest , shaman , warrior , mage and so on ) , then go out into the cosmos and go on quests , flack monsters , and work up your fictional character ’s experience , all in an on-line world that ’s populated by computer - controlled non - player characters and other player .
The secret plan has been successful enough to breed an add - on expansion pack , due in mid - January called World of Warcraft : The Burning Crusade . In preparation for that firing Blizzard has nickname this 2.0.1 update the “ Before the violent storm ” dapple .
“ Before the Storm ” makes several important game - across-the-board enhancements admit a revamp Player vs. Player ( PvP ) honor organization , which now allow players to collect honor detail that can be spent like currentness to purchase weapon , armour and other precious items . New talent have been added to each division , and a depend For Group ( LFG ) putz is now uncommitted to help players find chemical group to research instanced dungeons and quest . Players can also now queue for small - chemical group , gladiatorial combat matches — stadium encounter , as they are known — by speak to Battlemasters throughout the world .
Many , many other enhancement have been made in this significant update , including some that are specific to the Macintosh release . The Mac release now underpin multithreaded OpenGL , a feature on Intel - based Macs running Mac OS X v10.4.8 .
Much of what OpenGL does is dependent on the Mac ’s central processing unit , not its art hardware . Multithreaded OpenGL leverages this by circularize the processing of complex 3-D graphics scenes between multiple processors or multiple processing cores on Intel - based Macs . Blizzard claim that multithreaded OpenGL support can , in fact , double the public presentation of World of Warcraft depending on your Mac ’s hardware capabilities and the setting peg down in the game .
Multithreaded OpenGL is an “ opt - in ” engineering for game developer to implement , so this performance betterment is n’t automatic , and this is the first ecumenical firing of World of Warcraft to feature the technology . Up to now , it ’s been available in recent beta builds of the Burning Crusade expansion large number .
Other Mac specific improvement admit proficient TV computer hardware detecting , handicapped peak vivification shaders for Intel television - based arrangement , better iTunes key - binding , a tutorial peak bug localization , audio code clank bug , improved supporting for Weather Shaders and support for change the mouse sensitiveness .