sorry but a screen shot won't help you in any way. if EA does decide to charge separately for mac, they will simply tell you that the rep was misinformed.
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sorry but a screen shot won't help you in any way. if EA does decide to charge separately for mac, they will simply tell you that the rep was misinformed.
At least we hope!
They could get deluged a second time when the Mac version come out and then we get to experience everything the PC users did yesterday. But I hope not.
I played it for a bit with my mac mini 2.3ghz 2012 and it runs just fine in Windows. I have to turn the lighting and shadows right down, but otherwise most other settings are on medium (have not really experimented yet) and running at 1920x1080 resolution. It runs smoothly so far.
As for the game itself, I have only put an hour into it so far, but it certainly shows promise. I'm just excited to be building cities again after 10 years!
As for the game itself, I have only put an hour into it so far, but it certainly shows promise. I'm just excited to be building cities again after 10 years!
I have a brand spanking new 27" iMac with the following specs (everything is maxed)...
PROCESSOR - 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
MEMORY - 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-4X8GB
HARD DRIVE - 3TB Fusion Drive
GRAPHICS - NVIDIAGeFrc GTX 680MX 2G GDDR5
I got the best graphics card available, but how good is it really?
I installed a trial version of parallals and installed windows 7 home basic and basically when the game begins to load it shuts down windows and I have to restart. Any idea what's going on here?
I also heard I can't run bootcamp with a 3TB drive but there is a workaround by which you partition your drive so bootcamp recognizes that it falls with="red"]Any thoughts/comments on this?[/COLOR][/B]
PROCESSOR - 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
MEMORY - 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-4X8GB
HARD DRIVE - 3TB Fusion Drive
GRAPHICS - NVIDIAGeFrc GTX 680MX 2G GDDR5
I got the best graphics card available, but how good is it really?
I installed a trial version of parallals and installed windows 7 home basic and basically when the game begins to load it shuts down windows and I have to restart. Any idea what's going on here?
I also heard I can't run bootcamp with a 3TB drive but there is a workaround by which you partition your drive so bootcamp recognizes that it falls with="red"]Any thoughts/comments on this?[/COLOR][/B]
You need to run the game natively and not in a VM for optimal performance. Either play it on a PC or put Windows into BootCamp on your Mac. Then the games should work quite well.
I've got the new SimCity running in a Windows XP SP3 Parallels VM on a Mac mini i7 2.3GHz Server. I assigned 2 CPUs, 3GB RAM, and 512MB VRAM to the VM. Graphics settings in the app are very conservative. The tutorial game runs fine and feels responsive.
I'll play a bit at the low settings to get a better feel for the system's performance and to brush up on VERY rusty SimCity skills. At first blush it appears to be very playable.
It would not run well. Intel HD Graphics are not very good. You could expect minimal settings to work fine.
Got the game running with mid settinga on my early 2011 MacBook Pro 15" with bootcamp Windows 8.
Its an amazing game so far
Its an amazing game so far
I have no foresight into what will actually happen when the Mac version releases, but I can say that I purchased the boxed version and installed via Boot Camp. I had to register the key to my Origin account (the same way you do with games on Steam, including games you may have purchased elsewhere), and we are told that Mac and PC players will be playing together so I would ASSUME that the Mac version will be unlocked for me upon release, just as the PC versions of all my Steam games are available to me even though most were purchased for Mac.
I understand these are two completely different companies (with completely different reputations), but I'm just guessing (and hoping) that's how it's going to work.
I understand these are two completely different companies (with completely different reputations), but I'm just guessing (and hoping) that's how it's going to work.
I have it working via Bootcamp (with the exception of the sound issue) but it has a little lag and drags a little. Is there a way to avoid this? Not sure how to lower settings
You could try lowering your settings (in the settings menu, top right corner, button looks like "..."), but it may also be a server side issue because the game seems to rely so heavily on them. I haven't experienced lag, but I've heard others have and I have experienced some slowness in menus and things just straight up not saving at all.
Got the game running with mid settinga on my early 2011 MacBook Pro 15" with bootcamp Windows 8.
Its an amazing game so far
Still good? The reviews online (Amazon) have not been good but I think that has more to do with the DRM and always online feature. Those issues do not bother me. I want to know how the game plays and if its as much fun as previous Sim City games.
Just saw the Kotaku review. A "not yet" rating.
http://kotaku.com/5989115/simcity-the-kotaku-review
While they should release the Mac & PC versions at the same time, I'm very happy that they are developing a version specific for the Mac and that it's not just a port.
Hopefully they go this way with 'Sims 4'.
Hopefully they go this way with 'Sims 4'.
Performance on the retina 13'' low end?
That pretty much says it
Any experience? How will it fare?
Is it worth it?
I really am willing to play at the utter lowest settings for a stable 60fps.
Thx
edit: Origin mentions mac-specs, so i guess bootcamp isn't necessary.
That pretty much says it
Any experience? How will it fare?
Is it worth it?
I really am willing to play at the utter lowest settings for a stable 60fps.
Thx
edit: Origin mentions mac-specs, so i guess bootcamp isn't necessary.
That pretty much says it
Any experience? How will it fare?
Is it worth it?
I really am willing to play at the utter lowest settings for a stable 60fps.
Thx
edit: Origin mentions mac-specs, so i guess bootcamp isn't necessary.
Had to put everything on low. Works fine for me (base rMBP)
SimCity's digital download just got pulled from Amazon.com
"It's not a simulation of building a city, is a simulation of connecting to a server".
Update: The fastest speed in the game, "Cheetah Speed", now disabled.
"It's not a simulation of building a city, is a simulation of connecting to a server".
Update: The fastest speed in the game, "Cheetah Speed", now disabled.
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Thank you!
Thank you for the answer!
I forgot to mention that I meant the 13'' , but I assume that you have the same. I would really hope that the base 15'' could do better than low
Do you have any feel for the FPS rate? does it drop? or is it fluid even with lots of "action" on the screen?
Thank you for the answer!
I forgot to mention that I meant the 13'' , but I assume that you have the same. I would really hope that the base 15'' could do better than low
Do you have any feel for the FPS rate? does it drop? or is it fluid even with lots of "action" on the screen?
That's really hilarious. I wonder how many sales they have lost because of this. I was going to pick it up, but after all this... probably not for a month or two.
They probably are going to lose more customers than they would if people pirated it.
Thank you for the answer!
I forgot to mention that I meant the 13'' , but I assume that you have the same. I would really hope that the base 15'' could do better than low
Do you have any feel for the FPS rate? does it drop? or is it fluid even with lots of "action" on the screen?
Haven't been able to get a full game in with the online fiasco happening so can't comment on the fluidity when theres a lot of action.
But i should mention that even with everything on low, theres a SLIGHT stutter. Its not 100% smooth.
oh well, thanks anyway! I'll keep that in mind
(WHY HAVE THEY STOPPED MAKING DEMOS?!) - Just sayin'... would have made my life lots easier
I played it all night on launch day (when they just rolled out the Oceanic 1 server) and it is such a beautiful/addicting game. However, it all went downhill from there because of EA and the servers.
Point of the matter is: Do not buy this game until the servers are seamlessly working 24/7. They should have prepared for this, but you know, it's EA.