
Ultimately though, my 2007 Macbook with a 128MB 8600MGT and Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz 4GB DDR2 runs the game great with everything on low at 1440x900. So you might need to either 1) dumb down your graphics settings or 2) change your resolution to a lower one (1440x900, for example) if you still want to keep your graphics options on High/Very High. This means that you'll essentially be pushing your mobile graphics (the highest of which is a GT750M) to the same extreme as, say, my 27-inch iMac. So keep that in mind when purchasing a macbook is that unless you want things to look a little fuzzy, you'll want to run it at native resolution.
#The sims on mac book pro#
Remember on a Macbook Pro Retina - the resolutions are still very high (2880x1800)even though you're on a 13 or 15 inch screen. I have not upgraded to Yosemite (10.10) on this computer yet as my Lightroom performance oddly is fairly low. So just wanted to note how performance is. Even with view/draw distance at high and zoomed all the way out - it only dips to 20-30 FPS. It runs Sims 4 with everything maxed out at 2560x1600 INSANELY well. The hard drive is a standard 1TB mechanical Hard Drive.
#The sims on mac book upgrade#
What I want to add in addition to Lunder89's post above is this - my iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) has a 3.5GHz Core i7, 8GB DDR3 RAM (yes, I need to upgrade to 32 before prices skyrocket even more), and a GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5 for graphics. This means the ones with nvidia chipsets (GT650M, GT750M, etc). In terms of graphical capability, it's obvious here - a discrete graphics card will work even better. Most of the recent 2013/2014/2015 macbook pro's can run Sims 4 fairly well at medium to high settings. For some reason, when I open the launcher and hit 'play', it just opens a plumbob loading screen but never launches.

I have an external disc drive and have installed the base game, seasons and pets. > VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce 320M, 9600M, 9400M,ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro or better. I was also wondering if my MacBook air will run the sims 3 properly. > PROCESSOR: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz Processor or better > REQUIRED: Internet connection required for product activation. Can It run The Sims 4 fluently? Here are the specs: > I want to run The Sims 4, but don't know which Mac/MacBook can run it. So there's a number of things that need to be clarified here, and I hope this clears things up for more than just the OP and Lunder89 above.
