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By. 12:30 pm, April 26, 2016. Boost your gaming performance with this simple trick.
Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac (original photo: Alejandro Escamilla/) When you’re running a video game on your Retina Mac, the highest resolution can bog things down onscreen, making it tough to play smoothly. Typically, we suggest trying to use your game’s options panel to reduce the fancy graphics to get smoother performance, like increased frame rate and better draw rates. If that doesn’t appeal, or your game doesn’t include the option, there’s another way to constrain the resolution and make games run more smoothly on a Retina Mac. First up, quit the game if it’s running. Next, head into your Finder and find the game’s application. It’s typically in the Applications folder, but if you’re a Steam user, you’ll need to right click on the name in the Steam list and choose Properties, click on Local Files, then Browse Local Files. Find your Steam game here.
Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac Now, with the game application highlighted in the Finder, right click and choose Get Info. Alternatively, you can hit Command-I on your keyboard with the app selected in the Finder. Find and check the Open in Low Resolution checkbox. This will make sure that your Mac will force the game to open in a non-Retina resolution, which should improve your performance. Get Info, then Open in Low Resolution.
Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac Launch the game again and see if you feel like things are a little snappier. I ran Rust in both Retina and Low Resolution mode, and while the actual FPS only jumped up a few points, the whole game felt smoother and less laggy. This is good in a game where everyone else wants to kill you.
It’s equally useful in a game like Civilization V, where the large number of on-screen happenings make for some serious slowdown. Once I enabled low-resolution mode, I got at least another 10 frames per second, and the game just seemed speedier.
The overall graphical performance is a bit lessened, but I don’t typically run my games on high graphics settings anyway, so it doesn’t affect me too much. Your mileage may vary, but this is one more tool in the continuing battle to make games run better on your Mac.
Article by Orestis Bastounis If you’re buying a computer purely for playing games, a Mac isn’t the best choice. We always recommend. Macs are more expensive than a desktop Windows PC, especially when you add on extra storage, memory or a faster GPU, and there’s a far smaller library of games that run natively on OS X, Apple’s desktop operating system, than you’ll find for Windows. And yet, Macs are hugely popular.
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They're everywhere now—and that means we should make them the best gaming machines they can possibly be. Maybe you prefer OS X for day-to-day computing and have a dedicated PC for gaming.
Maybe you’re a frequent traveler or college student, and prefer using a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air over a Windows laptop. And we all know a few fanboys who buy every Apple contraption as soon as it goes on sale. Gaming on a Mac may be more restrictive than with a desktop PC running Windows, but if you choose the right Mac hardware, and are willing to pay for it, you’ll be able to play most games without issue. That’s why I’ve put together this guide to gaming on the Mac, covering everything from the best Mac hardware for gaming, to using Windows Boot Camp, to the mice and keyboards you should buy for Mac gaming. If you don’t own a Mac, but are curious about what OS X might have to offer for gamers, I’ll explain the available choices, the different product lines, and what upgrades are most beneficial for gaming. I’ll look at storage, the GPU options, CPU upgrades and even some of the more exotic upgrades you could make, such as external graphics cards that connect via Thunderbolt, or what you could do to boost your Mac’s performance by whipping it open yourself and adding an SSD, more memory or a bigger hard disk.
Take away that shiny aluminum exterior (and bigger pricetag), and Macs and PCs are based on identical Intel-based x86 hardware. By setting up Boot Camp to run Windows side-by-side with OS X, you can play PC-exclusive games which haven’t been coded to run on OS X. I’ll cover Boot Camp—along with a look at some of the other ways to run Windows software directly in OS X like Wineskin and virtual machines—and their potential pitfalls. Page 1: Introduction to Mac gaming.