Help, I'm on a Mac

[TheRyderShotgun]

so yeah my computer is broken now and at the repair shop and in the meantime im stuck with a mac. took like 4 1/2 hours downloading a software update needed to run the game and another 3 hours downloading the game itself before the game telling me i couldnt run the game because the hardware isnt powerful enough. im not exactly surprised, but im a little pissed and im wondering if there's a way to force the game to start anyway, i dont really care about low framerates at this point.

[Holylin]

I hereby conclude that there is no difference between a broken down PC and an Operating Mac.
First shame on you for even getting a Mac.
Second shame on you for tha repair shop !!!

[marshmallow justice]

Mac parts are quite low in standard to other comparable options. Especially if it's an older, pre-2013~ mac, it's likely you won't be able to play it regardless, and even if you could, you'd heat the poor thing to oblivion and beyond with its poor airflow.

[TheRyderShotgun]

hey, the mac doesnt belong to me, its my dad's
and yeah the shop's taken 2 months now, if it werent for warranty i'd demand they pay me

also the mac's a mac mini(says here 2012) but as i said, its not mine, and im not entirely fond of my dad anyway.
besides, ill admit the real reason i want to launch it is to edit some character pool exports so i can put them into christopherodd's LP pool

[TheRyderShotgun]

nothing?

[Viemärirotta]

Nothing.

[TheRyderShotgun]

well ♥♥♥♥ me and this mac

[Zigg Price]

"Help, I'm on a Mac."

https://youtu.be/S_2GBwwbTVU?list=PLJR_Rh70z0ZaheRRoEIbKM3DUniPbpwwX

[TheRyderShotgun]

yeah what about it

[SamBC]

Let's keep away from platform wars type stuff, folks.

[TheRyderShotgun]

The platform wars are absolutely stupid. PCs are more flexible and has a higher power ceiling if that makes sense while Macs are more protected and have many office uses. Their purposes were different from the beginning. You might as well have compared a shoe to a hat because they are clothing items.
(Fun fact, their roles used to be reversed, with macs being the gaming machines while pcs being office computers. Then one day apple wanted to be a "serious" company and push towards a more office feel while pcs ventured into the gaming market. Now macs can't make it into the gaming market no matter what, so they're holding on tight to their mobile gaming markets)

Either way, what I'm doing is asking if I can force a Mac to replicate the task of a PC because I have a little not-so-time-sensitive emergency and REALLY do not plan to do a mission on the Mac if I manage to launch it, just boot up the character pool and mess around a little bit.

[similarly]

What are the specs on your mac? I play on a 2013 imac.

3.5ghz intel core i7
16gb ram 1600 mhz ddr3
NVidia GeForce GTX 780m 4096mb

And for the record, as a guy who's opened up and worked on both macs and pcs, since mac went completely intel, it's all the same stuff inside.

With mac, you're paying for integration and compatibility of components, plus the software.

I use a mac because I like the office software and the video editing software, but I dual boot win10 on bootcamp because windows has the animation software I like!

My Mac has no trouble playing games, and neither should your mac if it meets minimum specs.

[TheRyderShotgun]

well, i guess it doesnt.
its a mac mini(late 2012), 1.5 ghz intel core i5, 4GB ram 1600 mhz DDR3, intel hd graphics 4000 1536mb

[Scorpius]

Originally posted by TheRyderShotgun:

well, i guess it doesnt.
its a mac mini(late 2012), 1.5 ghz intel core i5, 4GB ram 1600 mhz DDR3, intel hd graphics 4000 1536mb

the mac mini does not feature a dedicated GPU for neither games nor other high-demanding operations like real time video processing or rendering. so the mac mini is the worst option for anything but plain office and imaging manipulation tasks. for games and video you either need MBP, imac or macpro
p.s. so many children and unicorns here.

[TheRyderShotgun]

i supposed i couldve figured that from the computer's name. runs l4d2 surprisingly well save for the occasional "too many indices for index buffer" crash, though i guess thats not too surprising.