How efficient is a MacBook Pro for gaming?
Friends don’t let friends game on Apple.MacBooks are not intended for gaming! Furthermore, in any real sense they can’t be upgraded to be gaming machines. Not while remaining portable.Just like a lot of MBP’s, you have a pretty nice machine there… except for that lame, wimpy, cheapass onboard excuse for a real graphics card. But that should be ok, because you have plenty of RAM - and gee whiz, it’s an infinitely superior magical WozniApple! Right?I have actually seen “logic” like this on forums.The thing is… for gaming, the GPU is life or death. Apple engineers are some of the most brilliant in the world. They know this!!! Apparently they don’t care. Apple simply does not make gaming machines - at least not yet. The entire world knows this.The only real hope there is for serious gaming on your Macbook is relatively new product - an external GPU, or eGPU. But hold onto your wallet - it ain’t gonna be cheap. Or portable.You will need to boot camp Windows, I highly recommend Win 10. You’ll also need a decent external monitor, an eGPU will not power your laptop screen. And you’ll want a gaming mouse, and keyboard, and speakers… Might need an external HD pretty soon… Getting my drift here? You are essentially turning your Apple laptop - into a PC desktop!FWIW, with what you will spend doing this, you could get about 2/3 of the way to a real PC gaming tower.Of course using an eGPU, you can disconnect everything and have an actual portable laptop - but it still won’t game when you get there.
Why does my MacBook Pro retina 13 inch over heat when I play games such as The Sims 4?
I once had a Toshiba laptop, very nice on, 650 MHz. Then one day, shortly after my employer gave it to me, I noticed that my bag was super hot, my machine had not gone to sleep as it was supposed to do, and inside my bag, there was not much of fresh cool air, so it was so hot, everything on the machine was hot to the touch. A quick open on the lid, and lock it again, and it went to sleep and quickly became colder. After this I suspected it must have broken, but it did not. It kept working and was awesome in every way. Then Civ III came out in 2001. Every time I played it, my machine got so hot you would not believe it, but it never failed, the fans came on and stayed on the whole game pretty much, and it was so hot I was scared I had damaged it.Well, later I learnt that this was normal, this is what happens when you put powerful components into a small space, my desktop machine which I got later on, never moved a fan, because it was that much bigger.So back to the mac. Your computer is not made out of aluminium just to look nice, nope. It is made with such an expensive component because it moves heat better than most other compounds, this is also why small, cheap and very slow machines can be made out of plastic.Your CPU gets very hot, but it is quite ok to run at 100 degrees celsius, it isn’t a problem, unless you are water, it will start changing water into vapour, and guess what, you are a bag of meat made out of water, so you will burn, your machine is just fine as long as it can pull in air from the backside, but your keyboard will soon be 50–60 degrees and warm to the touch, you will notice that your hands feel clammy or sweaty. This is because in order to move all these pixels on screen and run game logic, calculate what every sim will do, buy, steal or sleep, it needs to calculate a lot, and by doing so, your cpu will start to run faster and pull in more electricity to do so.Think of your CPU light a lightbulb in a lamp that you have a fader on, except your lightbulb controls the fading operation by it self. When it needs to light, it will crank up that switch, but in daylight it will run much darker. A lightbulb which is running as high as it gets, gets seriously warm, same when it is almost off, or off, it is quite cold.I hope this answers your question. All computers will run this hot playing a complicated game.
Can you run The Sims 4 on a MacBook Air?
Of course. Why do you think the MacBook Air is chopped liver? I have had one for over three years, and I can tell you now it’s the best laptop I have ever owned and I can do almost anything on it. It’s not some super liquid cooled 3D gaming rig, but the Sims 4? That game is not as heavy on requirements as a first person shooter or other type of hardcore gaming genre.
How much hard disk space does The Sims 3 take up when all of its expansion and stuff packs are installed?
I have all expansion and stuff packs installed as well as some store and custom content and my game is at 32.14GB not including the documents (mods and saves and installed worlds et cetera) which is another 19.72GB. Plus I have to keep backups of my data (physical discs are in storage) and mods incase I need to reinstall because I hacked something badly which is a 109.66GB folder on top of that. Thats 161.52GB total for sims 3 at minimum for me, minimum because I occasionally keep multiple copies and or backups of things like documents or just packages folder to switch out quickly when testing different things.Going hardcore completionist in this game is not for someone unable to go hardcore on their PC specs. I have a 3.2GHz 8-core Intel tower with 32GB RAM, GTX 780, and 4 HDDs one being a 1.5TB HDD just for Games. My main is a 512GB SSD so there's no room. Then I have a 2.5TB Time Machine drive and a 3TB additional documents drive, on which I keep my virtual machines too. I use a custom pc built out of a 2008 Mac Pro with El Capitan as my primary OS so I have a 1TB virtual Windows XP machine on that 3TB which I run simultaneously on a virtual monitor (ctrl+arrows to switch between virtual monitors); although when I can afford a second 4K I’ll run it on a second monitor so I can see both screens at the same time; and Android and other virtual machines and other junk.
Does The Sims gets harder to run as I install more and more expansions?
I’m not sure that it’s the GB size of the actual packs that matter, but yes the more content you have in your game the slower it will be, at least when loading. I’ve noticed this with each one over the years. Especially if you also use CC (Custom Content).It will take longer to load certain parts of the game, namely CAS and Build Mode. Because stuff packs and expansions add, well, more stuff for the game to load in.Edit: Just a little note I thought I’d add, I know that it definitely does affect it because it happens to me too, I could run the base game alone on High, but the more expansions and stuff packs I add the slower it starts to run and I have to turn the graphics down, and that’s without CC. I took out all of my custom content a while ago to find one faulty file, my game ran a lot better without all the extra stuff to load.Also it may be worth adding that with The Sims 3, they added an option to disable and enable whatever packs you wanted each time you open the launcher, specifically for performance reasons. So it’s definitely nothing wrong with your computer, the sheer amount of stuff you put in it can certainly start to slow it down.
What is the best flight simulator for Mac?
According to the majority of users in the thread at MacRumors forum: http://forums.macrumors.com/show...The best flight simulator appears to be X-Plane, which can be found here: http://www.x-plane.com/
I liked these pc games- Far Cry 4, COD Advanced Warfare, Batman Arkham Knight. Can I get some other good game suggestions?
Basically you want a game which has good story, immersion, and multiple gameplay options. And of course now you want something better.In this case, I would suggest Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014). This game has won the Game of the Year award. Here are some reasons you should play this game:Story telling and lores. If you are a fan of fantasy worlds, the dragon age franchise has established massive lores. You can learn the history of Thedas, the continent where you will play.Options and choices. You can customise your looks, you can build your abilities, you can be a stealthy assassins or a tanky swordman on your call. This game is an RPG so you will have to make decisions overtime.Various characters. You will meet interesting friends and combat companions. Develop friendships, conversation, and hear their party banter. Even you can romance them. They are all have their own motives.Environment and world building is fantastic, they have beautiful forests, scorching desert, coastal area, medieval villages, and castles. Various locations for exploration dynamics.Completing this game, you need at least 150 hours gameplay. It signifies how great the game’s production values are. We haven’t count the DLCs which give you more stories.I hope you like this game, what a wonderful world: