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#1 User is offline   otterowen 

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 08:48 PM

I know Macs aren't the ultimate gaming rigs but I am a casual gamer and it so happens that I do have an iMac. I have been looking all over the internet and I just can't find answers. The only things I find are angry Windows users calling me a moron for buying a mac(lol). Please help!
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 05:27 AM

View Postotterowen, on 04 July 2012 - 08:48 PM, said:

I know Macs aren't the ultimate gaming rigs but I am a casual gamer and it so happens that I do have an iMac. I have been looking all over the internet and I just can't find answers. The only things I find are angry Windows users calling me a moron for buying a mac(lol). Please help!


What kinds of games are you looking at and what kind of performance improvement are you looking for? I ask because generally there's not a lot of overlap between "casual gamer" and games that have high performance demands. So I'd like a handle on what you're really seeing.
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Posted 25 July 2012 - 04:13 AM

I doubt more memory would help. You're being held back by the integrated graphics. The only way to fix that is to either add a graphics card (probably not possible), or find an external graphics adapter (quite expensive).
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Posted 25 July 2012 - 05:10 AM

View Postethansamuel17, on 25 July 2012 - 04:13 AM, said:

I doubt more memory would help. You're being held back by the integrated graphics. The only way to fix that is to either add a graphics card (probably not possible), or find an external graphics adapter (quite expensive).


The bottleneck depends on the capabilities of the machine and the nature of the software being run. Not all games are especially graphics intensive and no iMac has had integrated graphics in years. Only 1 Intel-based iMac ever did, and only a couple of configurations in the Intel era even used shared memory.
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 07:31 PM

View Postotterowen, on 04 July 2012 - 08:48 PM, said:

I know Macs aren't the ultimate gaming rigs but I am a casual gamer and it so happens that I do have an iMac. I have been looking all over the internet and I just can't find answers. The only things I find are angry Windows users calling me a moron for buying a mac(lol). Please help!


haha```
lots of windows users cant understand that, somehow I really like MAC's design.

I dont think MAC is good for gamer```so why not buy another Windows's laptop for gaming and MAC for working?
Good for your leisure time and good for your privacy at work.
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