Minimum Mac OS requirements?

[Anahorish]

Hi, I'm loving the look and concept of The Long Dark, and I'd like to try it, but the minimum requirements mentioned on the store page don't exactly match my system. I'm currently using Mac OS 10.7.5 and I have an Intel HD Graphics 3000 card. Do you think my system could handle The Long Dark? I'd prefer not to update to a newer OS if I don't have to.

[Doze_D]

It's not about the OS, it's about the hardware inside the MAC/PC. Are you using iMac or MacBook ? And what is the model year ?

[Anahorish]

Originally posted by DD-Indeed:

It's not about the OS, it's about the hardware inside the MAC/PC. Are you using iMac or MacBook ? And what is the model year ?

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm rather new at this. I'm using a MacBook Pro, late 2011. Is there anything else you need to know?

[Doze_D]

Okay, got some info from Apple's site. It should work just fine, but it's gonna be heavy stress for the machine, so there might be overheating issues, after a while. :) I suggest, that you try it and see, if it runs smoothly. You can also use the FPS-calculator on Steam. You can find it on the Steam settings, so you could put in on for first run. When you put it on, you can see a small letters and numbers in a corner of a display, while playing. And the number in there should be at least 30 FPS. If it's lower, you need to adjust the game's display settings to lower levels. So give it a try and tell, how it felt. :)

[Anahorish]

Originally posted by DD-Indeed:

Okay, got some info from Apple's site. It should work just fine, but it's gonna be heavy stress for the machine, so there might be overheating issues, after a while. :) I suggest, that you try it and see, if it runs smoothly. You can also use the FPS-calculator on Steam. You can find it on the Steam settings, so you could put in on for first run. When you put it on, you can see a small letters and numbers in a corner of a display, while playing. And the number in there should be at least 30 FPS. If it's lower, you need to adjust the game's display settings to lower levels. So give it a try and tell, how it felt. :)

Okay, thank you very much, I will take that into account.

[MidnightHunter]

Well my MacBook Pro 2012 doesn't fit the requierements too. I have 2,5 Ghz, 4GB RAM and a Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB so I barely fullfill the minimum on the page too. But I play on minimum (as I'm obviously not a hardcore gamer I can more than live with that). Sometimes the fan has to work hard, but I put three small boxes under the corners of the laptop so that the air can circulate fine. Only if I play more than two hours it will get warm so that I take a break. But other than that it's totally fine. So if you can live with lower graphics and some more breaks give it a go :) How much RAM and Ghz do you have?

[Doze_D]

Originally posted by MidnightHunter:

But I play on minimum (as I'm obviously not a hardcore gamer I can more than live with that).

I'm with you too. It's never about the looks of it. How it feels, that is the most important part of gaming. :)

[MidnightHunter]

Originally posted by DD-Indeed:

Originally posted by MidnightHunter:

But I play on minimum (as I'm obviously not a hardcore gamer I can more than live with that).

I'm with you too. It's never about the looks of it. How it feels, that is the most important part of gaming. :)

Yes! And it feels amazing! :D

[Anahorish]

Originally posted by MidnightHunter:

Well my MacBook Pro 2012 doesn't fit the requierements too. I have 2,5 Ghz, 4GB RAM and a Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB so I barely fullfill the minimum on the page too. But I play on minimum (as I'm obviously not a hardcore gamer I can more than live with that). Sometimes the fan has to work hard, but I put three small boxes under the corners of the laptop so that the air can circulate fine. Only if I play more than two hours it will get warm so that I take a break. But other than that it's totally fine. So if you can live with lower graphics and some more breaks give it a go :) How much RAM and Ghz do you have?

Thanks for sharing, this is certainly encouraging. I have 2.4 Ghz and 4 GB RAM, so very similar to you, except for the Intel graphics. So you just put the graphics of the game on a lower setting when you're playing?

[MidnightHunter]

Yes, I think I have the lowest possible at the moment, but for me this is totally fine. And the fan comes on only when being outside during a snowstorm when the graphics have to load more. But as it is not recommended to be outside during a terrible snowstorm this rarely happens. ;)

[Anahorish]

Originally posted by MidnightHunter:

Yes, I think I have the lowest possible at the moment, but for me this is totally fine. And the fan comes on only when being outside during a snowstorm when the graphics have to load more. But as it is not recommended to be outside during a terrible snowstorm this rarely happens. ;)

:) Good point. Thanks very much for your help!

[Caliban]

Originally posted by KMABradbury:

Originally posted by DD-Indeed:

It's not about the OS, it's about the hardware inside the MAC/PC. Are you using iMac or MacBook ? And what is the model year ?

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm rather new at this. I'm using a MacBook Pro, late 2011. Is there anything else you need to know?

I have a mid2010 macbook and the game runs okay-ish on a low res and medium-high settings. For some reason I had overheating issues and low framerate and then all of a sudden a few days ago I've had butter smooth performance and no overheating. I dunno.

[Dr. Dro ඞ]

It works fine on my mid-2012 MacBook Pro (2.3 GHz i7-3615QM) with both the integrated HD 4000 (low settings, 1440x900) or the 512 MB GT 650M (medium settings on OS X and Ultra on Windows) running OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 + Windows 7 Professional x64.

You should update to Yosemite, OP. It's free from the App Store and it doesn't break anything as far as I know. Aperture works (though it has been succeeded by the superior Photos for OS X in 10.10.3 release), Office 2011 is flawless and so are all other Apple apps on my non-Retina laptop, so I think you will be just fine with it.

I need to get the El Capitan beta, but it didn't want to install because of my hybrid partition setup. If you were sticking to Snow Leopard I would understand, as it has PowerPC emulation but there's just no reason to stick with Lion, at this point it's both outdated and crippled by old drivers and lack of support.

Originally posted by Fugitive Justice:

I have a mid2010 macbook and the game runs okay-ish on a low res and medium-high settings. For some reason I had overheating issues and low framerate and then all of a sudden a few days ago I've had butter smooth performance and no overheating. I dunno.

Get something called smcFanControl. It's really handy! If you use Windows, the equivalent is called Lubbo's Fan Control. Crank its fans up to 6200rpm and enjoy throttle free gaming, it actually allows my own MBP to reach 1058 MHz on the GPU under Windows. Another really great app is gfxCardStatus, which will allow you to force either the integrated or dedicated graphics card if your Mac has 2 different video cards. Gets a little loud but fixes overheating :)

Using integrated when you're just browsing the web or playing lighter games will make it heat less and substantially increase battery life. You wouldn't believe how some pretty stupid things like YouTube videos turn on the dedicated GPU, which the integrated can easily handle.

[Caliban]

Also make sure to start in Direct X9.

Thanks for the suggestions Dr. Dro!

[Dr. Dro ඞ]

I remember when my MacBook was new, using the HD 4000 and the screen at 3 notches had the battery lasting 11h30 o_o

400 cycles later my battery isn't that fortunate anymore :(

[Anahorish]

Hey guys, I finally decided to treat myself and buy TLD, and I'm pleased to let you know it runs beautifully on my Mac, even better than some of the games I have that are supposedly designed for my hard- and software. The quality is amazing and I've already spent an hour and a half playing TLD, so I'm very happy. Thanks again for all of your advice and thoughts.