OS Neutral SimCity Bootcamp or OSX

[cvest]

I ordered a maxed out Haswell Macbook Pro and was wondering if I should Bootcamp and play the windows version or just play it natively. I have read many bad reviews for the OSX version but wasn't sure if it had been fixed.

 

[cvest]

Anyone know?

 

[Dirtyharry50]

I'm sorry I don't as I haven't tried the game.

Even though that's no help I didn't want you to feel your question is just falling on deaf ears. Hopefully somebody playing it will come along soon. I would think it is fairly popular.

 

[cvest]

I'm sorry I don't as I haven't tried the game.

Even though that's no help I didn't want you to feel your question is just falling on deaf ears. Hopefully somebody playing it will come along soon. I would think it is fairly popular.

Thank you for your response, I wasn't sure if the question was dumb or nobody felt like answering haha but thank you for responding.

 

[Dirtyharry50]

Thank you for your response, I wasn't sure if the question was dumb or nobody felt like answering haha but thank you for responding.

Your welcome. I hope you get an answer soon. I'd be interested in hearing myself how the Mac version turned out or if there was problems did they get fixed?

 

[JordanNZ]

I ordered a maxed out Haswell Macbook Pro and was wondering if I should Bootcamp and play the windows version or just play it natively. I have read many bad reviews for the OSX version but wasn't sure if it had been fixed.

Just try it in OSX.. If you have performance issues, then try it in bootcamp

 

[scbond]

I own the DVD and installed initially on Windows. The game has it's issues but runs flawlessly on the PC running Windows. Installed it on OS X when the update was released and it was horribly slow despite my hardware specs being over the minimum requirements.

Honestly, stick to Windows with this game...ideally on a PC but if your only option is Boot Camp then do that.

 

[hieronymuspool]

Just try it in OSX.. If you have performance issues, then try it in bootcamp

This would mean buying the game twice though?

 

[cvest]

Just try it in OSX.. If you have performance issues, then try it in bootcamp

Thats a great idea, i wasn't aware that the download includes Windows and Mac.

I own the DVD and installed initially on Windows. The game has it's issues but runs flawlessly on the PC running Windows. Installed it on OS X when the update was released and it was horribly slow despite my hardware specs being over the minimum requirements.

Honestly, stick to Windows with this game...ideally on a PC but if your only option is Boot Camp then do that.

Thanks for the tip, this is what i will do. Unfortunate but glad to know that this game still sucks on Mac.

 

[Erphern]

I bought it this morning, and I've been playing for the past several hours @ 2560x1440, no problems whatsoever. I'm enjoying it much more than forums would have had me believe, too!

This is on an iMac 3.5 GHz i7, 32GB, 780M, Mavericks.

 

[JordanNZ]

This would mean buying the game twice though?

Not with Sim City... Buy once, play on either OS. No harm in trying it on OSX first before going through the hassle of bootcamp.

 

[RiverbankGuy]

It plays just fine on my 2011 iMac running Mountain Lion and now with Mavericks.

 

[Digitalclips]

I ordered a maxed out Haswell Macbook Pro and was wondering if I should Bootcamp and play the windows version or just play it natively. I have read many bad reviews for the OSX version but wasn't sure if it had been fixed.

Sim City 5 (uses Origin) runs fine on my MacBook Pro i7 2010 on an external 23" Apple LCD full screen! I am using Mavericks. I just tweaked the settings till it worked. No issues what so ever.

 

[Kissaragi]

Runs pretty well on OSX for me.

 

[cvest]

Thank you for all of the responses