Hello everyone,
I have had a MacBook Pro 13" (Yosemite, medio 2012, 2,9 GHz Intel Core i7, Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 mb, 8 gb 1600MHz DDR3) for the past couple of years and played video games (Lately Diablo 3) on it every now and then, it worked just fine. My harddrive died last week and I had it replaced with a 400gb SSD. After installing everything again I imagined playing videogames would've become smoother (if not, the same). On the contrary, it was unplayable due to the amount of FPS drops (think 2-3 second freezes every 15s and also 0,5s freezes every 3 seconds). As it turns out, if I remove my mouse (and play with the pointer) it actually gets quite alot better (but still stutters more than before / unplayable). Different mouses (from the most simple one I could find, to an expensive logitec or Razer mouse) all change the amount of freezing, but it's still unplayable. I have tried wired and wireless mouses, no notable difference. One last interesting point is that the freezes are alot worse on El Capitan, hence why I'm on Yosemite again.
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong? Help :s
edit: I'm playing Diablo 3 on lowest settings you can imagine - lowering resolution has no effect either. Before the SSD I could run it on higher than Low settings, but not on High.
I have had a MacBook Pro 13" (Yosemite, medio 2012, 2,9 GHz Intel Core i7, Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 mb, 8 gb 1600MHz DDR3) for the past couple of years and played video games (Lately Diablo 3) on it every now and then, it worked just fine. My harddrive died last week and I had it replaced with a 400gb SSD. After installing everything again I imagined playing videogames would've become smoother (if not, the same). On the contrary, it was unplayable due to the amount of FPS drops (think 2-3 second freezes every 15s and also 0,5s freezes every 3 seconds). As it turns out, if I remove my mouse (and play with the pointer) it actually gets quite alot better (but still stutters more than before / unplayable). Different mouses (from the most simple one I could find, to an expensive logitec or Razer mouse) all change the amount of freezing, but it's still unplayable. I have tried wired and wireless mouses, no notable difference. One last interesting point is that the freezes are alot worse on El Capitan, hence why I'm on Yosemite again.
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong? Help :s
edit: I'm playing Diablo 3 on lowest settings you can imagine - lowering resolution has no effect either. Before the SSD I could run it on higher than Low settings, but not on High.