Hey guys, Scoooorn here! As many of you know I recently purchased a 27″ core i7 iMac. This machine is beautiful, and powerful. Now most people who buy PC’s want to play games on their computers. This has also been a huge debate in the mac vs PC world. PC fans have always had the advantage in the gaming world, but apple has been making strides lately, more games are coming out on apple devices, and with bootcamp any mac computer can play PC games. But can they play them well? Join me as I test out a huge variety of games. From power hungry games like Crysis, to the not so demanding counter strike source.
Lets get this started with arguably the most popular computer game ever! World of Warcraft. I had this game running on a 2560 x 1440 resolution with all settings on max. As you can see the game runs beautifully. The frames per second never dropped below 30 in highly populated areas, but averaged around 60 every where else. All in all this machine runs WOW perfectly.
If you have any suggestions for future iMac gaming posts let me know and I will do my best to get a post on it. Thanks for all the support you guys!
Scooorn
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Hi Scoorn,
have you tried installing and playing Crysis yet? I’ve tried to run and install it in Parallels, just to see what would happen, and it broke my SuperDrive twice. My setup is the iMac core i7 with 8GB Ram. The Crysis disc reads OK once. After that, no disks are read at all, so be careful. I have gotten a replacement iMac after the first time, and just found out that it happened to the replacement iMac to :(. I’m getting very frustrated here, and I won’t be putting Crysis back into my iMac (or any other mac for that matter…)
Chavito
Wow Im really sorry to hear about that! Yeah I’ve installed it in bootcamp and it runs decent. with the game on max resolution and the settings on low I get above 30 fps, but with the resolution down to 1990×1440 ( think thats the number) and settings on low I get like 45-60. So its playable.
Does the imac overheat…coz i tend to play for hours on end (6-13 hours straight)
It does get warm I wouldnt say its ever over heated on me though.
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