My home, deck builder, and the store all run fine. Even the match searching doesn't lag, but the second I enter a match the fps tanks.

Frame rate is really chugging since the last update. Makes the game borderline unplayable.

Same unplayable

Since the update on June 2, I've been experiencing similar FPS issues on my iMac (macOS Monterey 12.4; Radeon Pro 560X 4GB). Most of the menus are fine, but the gameplay, even against Sparky, is extremely slow.

Same here - unfortunately this makes the game unplayable. Tried everything - uninstall, close all apps, deleting all data - nothing. Only happens during matches - home ui and deckbuilding is fine.

After the latest update (June 2nd) the game is suddenly not playable any more on a Mac-client. the same issue on iMac and MacBook. Heavy grafic lags, glichtes, jerking animations and generelly VERY slow. This starts when entering a match. Before this update I was able to play in high grafics mode without any of these problemes. Nothing else changes on the systems.

Having the same issue on my macbook air 2014 everything ran smooth before the june update but it seems to be only when your in a game it starts to lag. PLEASE FIX!!!!

This is also affecting me. Worked fine before the patch, now I have to run the game at half the resolution I was previously using for it to be playable. As per Mayflower#97583's comment this issue is only during gameplay, menus etc. seem to be ok.

This is also affecting me. Worked fine before the patch, now I have to run the game at half the resolution I was previously using for it to be playable. Please fix ASAP WotC!

After yesterday's patch (insofar as I can tell) the game's performance during matches has become nearly unplayable. Before yesterday, the game was running fine at 1440p (not buttery smooth but well enough) and now I have to run it at 1080 just to play, and even then the performance is bad. Has anyone else experienced this? I just noticed (!) another post has the same issue, but I still wanted to post this in hope that the Wizards/whoever takes note. The most recent patch has definitely affected performance on Macs, I completely uninstalled (including files in /library/ and reinstalled MTGA to no avail.

I am also having the lag issue in gameplay on my Mac-- only in gameplay, not on the home screen, store, etc. (macOS Catalina 10.15.7). Game is unplayable due to the lag.

The game started doing this with the new Alchemy update on 6/02; when I logged in today 6/03, the system appeared to downloaded a patch or hotfix, but this has not improved or solved the problem.

I'm also having similar issues (2019 iMac running Monterey, specs attached). There is absolutely no way it should be this hard for a computer w/ 128gb of RAM to run a digital card game.

The lag, which showed up with the new update, has made Arena unplayable. A timeout gets spent before I've gotten to use my main phase because the cards don't load and I can't get the stack to complete - and I'm not even doing complex things.

MacBook Pro running Big Sur. Never had a lag issue before.

Currently on OSX 12.4, and the game is effectively unplayable since the 6/2 update. Both draft and in game are very laggy.

Also experiencing this on a Mac running OSX 10.14.6; the game runs fine in the menus, but inside matches lags terribly.

Performance has dropped significantly on MacOS after recent alchemy addition (6/2/22) and many frames are dropping on my system where none were dropped before. No other programs are running and poor performance persists after restart.

Hope this is something you are aware of! I have definitely noticed the many improvements to macOS performance in recent months and hope this will be hotfixed soon.

Have the same issue. Before the update the performance was excellent. After update the game is performing really bad inside on matches with low fps and freezings. Also i got a crash while building a deck

Menu is working well at the moment. Hope we get a response soon!

Can confirm this to be an issue to mac users linking a reddit post with various people saying the same.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/v3k37b/performance_issues_after_update/

Please get a hotfix for this as the performance issue is so bad the game is currently unplayable due to performance throttling and FPS stutter.

App used to run fine, after updating it's so laggy during gameplay that it is unplayable. Really enjoyed playing this game but if it continues to lag like this, I'll have to remove it.

After the latest update today, Arena's framerate during gameplay has dropped so low that the game can't be played. Outside of gameplay (main menu, deckbuilder, store, packs menu, etc), everything is fine, but as soon as a game is started everything grinds to a halt.

I'm playing on a Mac and didn't have any performance issues before today's update.