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SimCity Finally Launches on the Mac With Native Version and Cross-Platform Servers
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I fired it up briefly last night on the cMBP and this morning on the iMac and was able to play both times. I only stayed in the game for about 10 minutes each time.
thanks for telling, i'll not buy this game until all of the issues have been solved, thanks again
Wow...on low settings, it looks about the same as SC4. I should've figured that the official screenshots were taken at Super Ultra High(tm) settings.
Nice, hopefully they patched the servers or what ever to get it running smoothly.
Runs smoothly on low in my 2013 Air, but everything at medium gives some lag ingame. For some odd reason as well, Origin doesn't work if I've got my Kaspersky Security switched on. I have to turn protection off otherwise Origin won't connect to the servers, even with it in the exclusions list.
Edit: I've got the i7 and 8GB of Ram by the way.
Edit: I've got the i7 and 8GB of Ram by the way.
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Not a quick fix? I hope they realize Mavericks will probably be released in the next 2 to 4 weeks. But I guess nobody could have seen that coming...
I'm not shocked/surprised that they were taken at the highest settings. I'm surprised that the lowest settings make it look like a 10-year-old game.
No kidding. Even console-exclusive games have their screen shots taken at much higher than possible settings by using very powerful PCs.
Heck, I think it's worse than SC4 actually. SC4 looks better than that!
Extra cost of doing business. Free healthcare isn't really free, the cost is spread around. There's also the dole, good public transportation, increased regulation, etc.
The cost of the lease for this game plus the cost of broadband to play it is exceedingly gross.
Puns intended.
Yes I meant partition. As to the other person quoting my response, the partition doesn't have to be that big. It only needs to hold the OS, game plus a little more. For example, my partition for 10.4 on this old Macbook is 250 GB but I have 225 GB remaining. I should have made the partition much smaller but I'm not worried as I have plenty of space on the other (10.6.8) partition (the most current OS this Macbook will run) as I have 101 GB of 250 GB remaining.
Idecide to gamble and I bought the game. It runs well on MacBook Air on HD3000 with minor delay when I click HUD buttons, and of course on the lowest settings.
I had no issues either with the installation or with the server.
I had no issues either with the installation or with the server.
I played some more this morning, maybe 30 minutes or so. One thing I noticed in the Mac version that was different from the Windows version was the sensitivity of moving around and clicking.
When I move the cursor to the edge of the screen to pan over, it seems to jump awfully far across the city unless I'm really careful and try not to leave it at the edge too long.
Additionally, when bulldozing abandoned buildings, I either have to click between 1-3 times or do a long click before the building will be demolished.
It's annoying and I don't recall it being this sensitive on the Windows version I was playing.
When I move the cursor to the edge of the screen to pan over, it seems to jump awfully far across the city unless I'm really careful and try not to leave it at the edge too long.
Additionally, when bulldozing abandoned buildings, I either have to click between 1-3 times or do a long click before the building will be demolished.
It's annoying and I don't recall it being this sensitive on the Windows version I was playing.
You can change the sensitivity of the edge scrolling in settings. Ive noticed the having to click 2 or 3 times issue on some stuff too tho.