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2012 Mini owners... have you tried any games out yet?
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I've put a few hours (okay...days)...into Pandaria on the 2011 Mac Mini w/ 8gb of RAM, installed on a 750gb Momentus Hybrid drive and played on a 60" Bravia HDTV. Lots o' fun, beautiful picture, readable text (from 10ft away), and 5.1 audio is a plus =)
If the HD4000 really does approximate the card in my Mini, you should be fine
Team Fortress 2 is the primary game I play on my computer.
Has anyone tried this on the new Mini yet? In Mac OS X? (I will not install Windows to run just one game)
I'm trying to figure out if the new Mini is a good upgrade for my 2006 Mac Pro, which has a Radeon 3870 in it. If I can play TF2 at the same or faster framerate at 1920x1200, I will be a very happy cat and order a new Mac Mini.
My old Mac Pro is still 100% great for everything I do, it's just become very old, sucks down a LOT of power, and takes up a lot of space, especially since I only have two hard drives in it and 8GB of RAM. I also want to upgrade to 10.8, which this machine will not accept.
Has anyone tried this on the new Mini yet? In Mac OS X? (I will not install Windows to run just one game)
I'm trying to figure out if the new Mini is a good upgrade for my 2006 Mac Pro, which has a Radeon 3870 in it. If I can play TF2 at the same or faster framerate at 1920x1200, I will be a very happy cat and order a new Mac Mini.
My old Mac Pro is still 100% great for everything I do, it's just become very old, sucks down a LOT of power, and takes up a lot of space, especially since I only have two hard drives in it and 8GB of RAM. I also want to upgrade to 10.8, which this machine will not accept.
i play TF2 on my macbook pro hooked up to a Dell U2412M which is 1920x1200 and it runs decently on medium/low settings and thats with the HD4000 w/ 512MB VRAM which these minis apparently boost to 768MB of VRAM with 8GB+ of RAM
This is a really intriguing topic for me. I'm debating on a new iMac or a Mac Mini with a TB display and while both will be more than capable with the work related tasks I'll be doing, I also want to be able to play some games here and there, Source games most often.
It seems like the mini, at lower resolutions, will be fine, but hooked up to a 27" TB display does sound like most games will not be playable, at least not at any decent settings.
Has anyone found any benchmarks or reviews of performance on the 2012 Mac mini in games and with different resolutions?
It seems like the mini, at lower resolutions, will be fine, but hooked up to a 27" TB display does sound like most games will not be playable, at least not at any decent settings.
Has anyone found any benchmarks or reviews of performance on the 2012 Mac mini in games and with different resolutions?
well, my 2.3 i7 is due tomorrow. I will be testing out some steam games for it and will let you know how it goes, but it may take me a few days to figure it all out as its my first mac ever.
Will try steamplay games both on OSX and bootcamp as well.
If anyone can give me guidance on how to get the FPS up that would be appreciated.
Doing this to make sure that games are at least playable as the machine is for my daughter doing school stuff primarily, but she has to have some fun eh!
Will try steamplay games both on OSX and bootcamp as well.
If anyone can give me guidance on how to get the FPS up that would be appreciated.
Doing this to make sure that games are at least playable as the machine is for my daughter doing school stuff primarily, but she has to have some fun eh!
Just tested out my 2.6ghz with 4gb ram +ACD27 with Guild Wars 2. Played with auto detect maxed out the reso, was quite playable. Around 30 fps, dropped more when around some more ppl. Put reso to 1080p, around high 30s/40 even in groups of people.
Diablo 3 was average, has to play on a lower resolution for real fluidity. Not sure how to check fps.
Tried CS:GO, 1080p average settings, 35 average fps, very playable.
Pretty impressed overall. I honestly thought it was gonna be utter rubbish, after attempting to game on a entry level 2011 mini with the HD3000.
Diablo 3 was average, has to play on a lower resolution for real fluidity. Not sure how to check fps.
Tried CS:GO, 1080p average settings, 35 average fps, very playable.
Pretty impressed overall. I honestly thought it was gonna be utter rubbish, after attempting to game on a entry level 2011 mini with the HD3000.
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Games on Mac Mini 2012
I have the high end home model mini, with the 2.6 i7 and the 1tb fusion drive with 16gb ram
i can play League of Legends everything maxed out at a stable 60FPS!!
I was so happy today to see that level of performance. haven't tried out anything else but any other game around that price should match and run well.
I have the high end home model mini, with the 2.6 i7 and the 1tb fusion drive with 16gb ram
i can play League of Legends everything maxed out at a stable 60FPS!!
I was so happy today to see that level of performance. haven't tried out anything else but any other game around that price should match and run well.
I'm eager to see how the hd4000 performs on games like StarCraft 2, League of Legends and Counter Strike Source/TF2!
Post your experiences, good or bad, and your spec here please!
I'm waiting for some money going into my account, which should be very shortly! Then off to get my Mini the same day!
Thanks guys
I have an Asus Zenbook UX31E-ESL8. It has a ULV Sandy Bridge Core i5 at 1.6GHz (basically 100MHz slower than the low-end 2011 13" MacBook Air), and it, being Sandy Bridge, has the Intel HD 3000 graphics in tow. Albeit, it is running Windows, but even so, Intel HD 3000 in Windows should still not be as fast as Intel HD 4000 in OS X.
That being said, I have played both StarCraft II, and Counter-Strike: Source, as well as Team Fortress 2 and they look pretty damn good. StarCraft II can push medium settings fairly comfortably and I can play CS source at my native resolution of 1600x900 without even coming close to breaking a sweat. My guess is that, with CS Source, you can push that higher. Really, a lot depends on the native resolution of the monitor you're attaching to your Mac mini. I wouldn't expect StarCraft II to play well on medium settings at native resolution on a Thunderbolt display, but for a standard 1920x1080 (1080p) monitor, I'll bet you can play on medium settings at native resolution and be fine (or on high settings at a lower resolution if that tickles your fancy).
Thanks!
My monitor is only a 1366x768 monitor. So nothing special there!
Can't wait to play the games on my mini
Can anyone confirm this? Wow, that's good news
That means it is even playable at 2560-resolution? Atm I have 1080p/ 23" but I'm thinking about an upgrade...
Any Skyrim-results already
?Can anyone confirm this? Wow, that's good news
That means it is even playable at 2560-resolution? Atm I have 1080p/ 23" but I'm thinking about an upgrade...
Any Skyrim-results already
Hi,
have been busy setting mine up the last few days.
I have it connected to an old 1280x1024 sony monitor and it plays skyrim, but at low settings. Hope to connect it up to 1080 tv tomorrow and i will try and get some fps info.
I had portal 2 running on the tv. It was strange as at high settings i was only getting fps in the 20's, but it actually played ok. At medium shader settings it was in the 40's
In short, its capable of playing games, but at higher detail and higher resolutions the more intensive games have to be at medium or low.....sure that wont come as a surprise to most!
Which processor do you have? How much memory is in it and how much ram has bee allocated to the GPU? I've heard that if you use 8GB or more, the video ram gets a boost to 768MB...
Sorry, its the 2.3 quad core with 16gb ram. it allocates 768, but in bootcamp i think its actually more. Dont have it on just now, but will check later
Quad core 2.6 i7 with 16 GB RAM and a Fusion Drive: I only got 7 FPS running the Unigine Heaven benchmark at 2540x1440, and maybe twice that at 1980x1200. This benchmark is adapted from an actual game, 26 scenes of 3-D navigation through an environment, rendered with texture in real time. It was very jerky motion. I think this ia an accurate benchmark for such a 3-D game, so I wouldn't expect miracles.
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How about 1080p? I will have mine hooked to a 40" Sony as a htpc/light occasional gaming machine. It should never go to any higher res. thanks for the info.
I have the same Mac mini setup and have been very disappointed with MoP (didn't expect too much from an integrated card). However, to get 60fps at highest res = lowest other settings. Will try lower res with better settings but not too hopeful.
The new Mac mini would have been perfect with a dedicated card option. FY apple! This is one of the reasons I sold your stock at 640. So far a good decision
Can't understand the YouTube with MoP on intel HD4000 looking so good. I get nothing like this. Maybe they had it on a tiny screen