WoW was running like a champ on my roomate's 2011 iMac, the thing outperforms his shitty old windows laptop but. I mean, this would be like if they made DirectX 12 the minimum for PC's. I am not willing to buy a new mac, just to play WoW. Every other application or game I use/play works totally fine.
I have a MacBook Pro and have only recently got into online gaming, I know that Macs are not meant for gaming. I also have Windows 8 installed on it through bootcamp, so my question is what is better for games to run i.e.
Garry's mod, R.U.S.E my fav games. Mac OS X or Windows 8 through bootcamp. The Mac specs are: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 Processor 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB Graphics card (built in to processor i think) It's also a mid 2012 model if that means anything?
Thanks in advance. Use OSX and buy games with 'Steamplay'. I have heard bad things about bootcamp. If you want to use Windows for gaming then you must do a proper 'dual boot' installation without running Windows through OSX bootcamp. I suggest you stick with OSX unless you need to play a PC only title. S'Mac seriously Macs aren't great for gamers: 1. Most games run on Windows not OSX, though some are nice enough to have 'Steamplay' 2.
It's impossible to get the best graphics cards on a Mac unless you install them yourself 3. Macs are not very upgradeable. In fact you might say they are deliberately crippled for that. Macs are very expensive and not good value per performance for a gamer.
Macs are mostly mobile or mobile/desktop hybrid parts in everything except the (overpriced and outdated) Mac Pro desktops and simply can not compete with desktop performance, even though they can perform 'well enough' for many great things. HD 4000 graphics is probably better than a current generation gaming console.
It's not a 'gaming' computer though. There are many great things to be said about Macs, including fashion, style, portability, slim, professional looking and more.
Performance is unfortunately not one of these things. Originally posted by:hey I'm a dev. When a game is done right you will always get better performance in OS X compared to windows on the same hardware, it's a much more effiefienct and proper OS. This statement is false, for the same reason that it is false about linux even if it's the most efficient and proper OS out of the 3. The reason for that is 1.
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Graphics card drivers for OS X or Linux tend to just simply not be as good as the ones on windows, reason being that Nvidia/Amd are focusing on windows moreso than OS X. They know the games are on windows, they know their drivers are needed on windows more than anywhere else. Windows 8 is quite a lot more efficient than windows 7, and windows XP is more efficient than both windows 8 and OS X i can pretty much promise you (especially if you use the performance edition) in most cases windows xp will even be more efficient than linux since the window managers on linux today are consuming way more resources than they used to. You can not use Net Framework, nor XNA framework on OS X. You can't use DirectX either, It's arguable whether DirectX(for windows) or OpenGL (for everything) is better, but the fact remains that today most of the best lookign games are made on DirectX and not OpenGL. (But i do agree that i wish all games were on opengl, because then it would be easy to port the games to any platform, linux, windows, mac or playstation) 4.
No matter how inefficient windows may be, it should not affect the performance in games if you have a decent modern desktpo because it'll only use like 2 of your 8gb of RAM, and the game will most likely never use more than 4, if you have a dual core or better processor your OS will never be using 1 core all by itself, and most games usually don't even properly support multithreading so you only need 1 core for the game itself. And like i said before, the graphics card drivers in windows are simply better which is THE most important thing when it comes to gaming. And your OS no matter which one you're using wont be consuming a lot of your graphical memory. The most important reason not to be gaming on a mac is that all PC games are windows compatible, few are compatible with mac and even less are compatible with linux. But if Valve will have success in its campaign to push games over to linux, i will gladly jump ship over to Linux, in fact i prefer linux over windows, and i just hate OS X. I'm still using windows 7 because of how much of an abomination windows 8 is user interface-wise, it's even worse than apple's horrid OS X. Originally posted by:Macs are great but are usually more expensive so most people buy pc's which means software developers usually support whatever has the higher user base.
I fail to see how anyone with a true love for film, especially for the horror genre could possibly say this had a 'ham fisted' approach. I know people will draw parallels with what's going on at the BBC and politicians allegedly visiting children's homes for the most depraved reasons but people having human sacrifices led by the local MP in public fields is something different entirely. I felt compelled to write this review after reading the previous review on here. The largely improvised dialogue is such a pleasure to behold and lends the film an authentic stiflingly creepy mood. Kill list dlya sampa.