Playing on a Mac in 2017

[Archipel]

I'm interested in this game but I have read posts about low fps and crashes on mac os. As the last post on this subject dates from august 2016 I would like to know if these problems have been solved in may 2017 ?

[bob-the-builder]

im runing in a 2014 imac and it runs super fine, duno about the past but i can say in 2017 its all good man

[pavig]

Depends on your Mac, but anything recentish should run fine. I have a old Mac mini with integrated graphics (intel hd4000) and it runs fine on low settings at 1600x900 resolution. With a Mac with a dedicated GPU (which is most in the last 5 yrs) you should have no problem. It worked great on my old iMac with a Radeon GPU and 2012 MacBook Pro with Nvidia. Your Mac likely has a more recent AMD GPU or in the worst case a more recent integrated graphics than mine so will be playable and pretty even if you can't turn on the highest quality effects.

It's not a twitch game so as long as you can scroll the map comfortably and the animations are reasonably smooth you'll enjoy it anyway. Unlike traditional RTS or FPS games anything above 30fps won't make you more competitive or significantly improve your quality of life.

The low fps complaints we have been hearing lately have been from people with specialized gaming pcs - highly tweaked machines which should get 80-100 fps for the game but instead get 5-15. This has been certain odd cases and looks more like a problem with unique driver tweaks and other pc shenanigans than with the game itself. If I can get better fps with no graphics card than they can get with one that costs a grand then it sounds like something unique to their setup. ;)

[Archipel]

Thank you for the information. I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, 2014), 2,2 GHz Intel core i7, 16 G memory, and intel iris Pro 1536 Mb graphics. I guess the game should be playable.

[Bosonozhka]

I have an older MAC MINI and I have a problem with this game. The game started, played intro with space ship and still paused with black screen, playing music and nothing happens later.
Many other games are run on my MAC without problem on low resolution, but this game seems don't run.
What to do?

About my Mac:
Model Identifier: Macmini5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2,3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 8 GB
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 3000 (512 MB)
Display resolution: 1440 x 900 @ 60 Hz
System Version: OS X 10.11.6 (15G1421)
Kernel Version: Darwin 15.6.0

[pavig]

HD3000 is pretty old. Are you running a recent macOS? Looks like your so is a few years old, though your specs aren't much worse than mine and I can play at 1080p.

A few years ago I found a lot of incompatabilities with the steam overlay in games, so rightclick on cold waters in your library and turn off the overlay in preferences. It might help with graphic driver lockups.