Riot please do something about the mac client
I've been playing league for at least 3 years now, mostly on a mac. As long as I can remember, the client has always been buggy, but it certainly has improved over the past years...until now. For about 2 years I had 90-120 fps (~90 ping) and everything was more or less smooth, so pretty good I'd say. However in the past few months, since maybe patch 5.3 or so I've been really having some problems. While now I regularly get about 70 fps which is still playable, it regularly drops to about 20-25 in team fights even with a few people or pretty much any time there's at least 4 champions on my screen. I've also been getting far more client crashes and bug splats (not to mention higher ping ~120ish). In the past client performance rarely affected my gameplay, but recently it's taken a nosedive.
I've done everything I can think of. I visited forums and support help with mac client issues. I've repaired the client countless times (which makes the client crashes go away for a while). I've reset the SMC and the NVRAM and I reboot often. I don't even run any other programs now other than league when playing (I used to be able run at least google chrome simultaneously with no problems).
Computer specs:
I'm running a mid 2012 macbook pro with retina display NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 (boosts up to 3.7 GHz) 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 250 GB SSD
I've been quite frustrated with all of this I'm not even going to go into small bug issues like resolution display problems because I don't want to rant.
If anyone is going to be a troll and comment about playing games on a mac and that pc master race is the way to go, please just don't. Just leave. The mac here isn't the issue, nor is my internet.
I don't even know if I can really play ranked anymore until this issue is resolved. Sometimes the client is good enough to get by, most of the time it's not (especially when playing adc and needing smooth gameplay in team fights).
I can imagine the majority of players are not using the mac client, but please Riot please don't neglect us mac users. I've seen countless people with mac issues with rarely any help. I really just want to get back to playing like it used to be before and get back to going up the ladder. I don't know what happened a few patches ago, but something definitely triggered a whole set of problems. I look forward to seeing some feedback on this thank you.
UPDATE: Ok so I've been doing a lot of research and trying everything. I forgot to mention I'm running OS X Yosemite version 10.10.3. I turned off graphics switching between the Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GPU so that it just always uses the better NVIDIA GPU (but uses more energy on battery). Apparently, Yosemite has a hard time recognizing the physical PCIe slot. I also looked into updates via the app store but there wasn't anything relevant (like a GPU driver update). I looked into web drivers but there isn't an update for the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M on NVIDIA's site (but there is for Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 for the GeForce GTX 680 (http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/80070/en-us)]
I also found this to be helpful [(https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/787648/geforce-drivers/osx-10-10-yosemite-and-cuda-when-will-it-work-/2/?hc_location=ufi)]
So now with graphics gpu switching disabled, the fps drops have been reduced and certainly gotten better.
I also switched internet service providers. Before I was getting about 6 mb/s download now I'm getting 30 mb/s. However, I've noticed a ridiculous increase in lag spikes and ping. On average my ping now sits around 200-350 but occasionally it goes down to 150 (it always starts at 89 at the start of the game). I'm looking into possibly getting a thunderbolt - gigabit ethernet adapter and playing with a wired connection.