Playing games on Mac

Mick.Brown · **Joined:** Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:51 am **Posts:** 1429

Shanna got her 27" I5 iMac last night. Just tried playing Sims 3 with everything cranked up and it couldn't handle it.

Can't wait to try Steam on it though.

lorrie · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 2001

Mick.Brown wrote:

Shanna got her 27" I5 iMac last night. Just tried playing Sims 3 with everything cranked up and it couldn't handle it.

Why am i not surprised.
I think the problem with gaming on a mac is that devs arnt going to put the time in to optimize the code around the mac OS like they would for the PC.

ollie · **Posted:** Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:47 pm

lorrie wrote:

Mick.Brown wrote:

Shanna got her 27" I5 iMac last night. Just tried playing Sims 3 with everything cranked up and it couldn't handle it.

Why am i not surprised.
I think the problem with gaming on a mac is that devs arnt going to put the time in to optimize the code around the mac OS like they would for the PC.

I would've thought the other way and said that the mac just isn't built for games.

I am also excited about steam on mac, though less so now that I have a windows computer for the very reason that steam wasn't on mac...

Mick.Brown · **Joined:** Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:51 am **Posts:** 1429

I'm not sure a PC with the same specs as the Mac would've been able to run The Sims 3 at full spec either.

Paulie... wanna play a girl's game and test it for me?

-Sprout- · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:40 pm

Sure mate hand it over and we'll give it a go eh.

lorrie · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 2001

Mick.Brown wrote:

I'm not sure a PC with the same specs as the Mac would've been able to run The Sims 3 at full spec either.

An i5 with a 5850? I would be extremely surprised.
What resolution, AA and AF 1920x1080 4xAA and 2xAF?

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