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Dota 2 Footage on Retina MacBook Pro

This footage was shot from my iPhone (sorry for the poor quality). I own a base model rMBP and was using bootcamp.

The game is running super smoothy and never drops below 40 FPS (45-50 on average), even in team fight.
Obviously, the fans kick in after 5-10 minutes of gameplay, but you barely notice it at all. Above all, Dota 2 looks absolutely superb on the Retina Screen and I can’t wait for Valve to release the client for OS X.

I have a Macbook Retina display as well. Here’s a quick tip to get it to 60fps while at 2880×1800. If you have console, enter “mat_viewportscale 0.5”

This will make the game render the world at 1/4 resolution, then scale it up, but the UI is still rendered at the full 2880×1800. Because the pixel resolution is so high, even rendering the world at this lower resolution looks really good.

can’t wait for a manufacturer to make 4k resolution monitors

Yea i want a 12k resolutions and touch screen so i can use a long stick

i have the same macbook as u but i have been able to achieve a average of 15fps.

i think i know why now
my clockspeed stay at 225 instead of going up to it 900
how can i fix this

i am having the same problem as kamidesu, no more than 15fps with all settings at low at 1600 resolution. quite unfortunate, how did you make yours look so good?

i think u are having some like me
i fix it by resetting the smc

Right, as I see that quite many appears to have this problem I guess I’ll go ahead and share how to solve it (which I think is similar to what Kamidesu was trying to say).

The Mac stores certain data used by the Kernel and other low level instances in some memory circuits located on the motherboard called NVRAM. Specifically in this case, it stores data related to current screen resolution.

Now, for some reason which I’m honestly not entirely sure about at the moment, something apparently related to the bootcamp installation may corrupt this data which evidently leads to all around poor graphics performance. The easiest fix for this problem is to simply reset the NVRAM by doing the following:

1. Restart the computer (or turn it on if it’s already off).
2. Immediately when you hear the infamous Mac startup sound hold down the keys: command+option+P+R
3. Keep holding those keys until the computer automatically restarts and you hear the startup bell again.
4. Enjoy your 60 FPS in DOTA2 (and other games for that matter).

Note that this is mainly related to if you use the built in screen of the computer. If you use an external screen this may apparently not actually solve anything.