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MAC SLOW WHEN PLAYING GAMES

Hi if anyone can help me with the problem I have I will jump for joy.

I have a Mac desk top 27 inch screen that is 4 months old. It has Mountain Lion installed. The problem I am having is when I first log into a particular game my mac is extremely low and won't load the graphics very well. When I first had the mac I had no problem at all with the game everything was super fast and the graphics were fantastic, but now sadly I wish I had never purchased the Mac, I was always a PC user. I have tried everything I can think of even lowering the graphics on the game but to no avail. Everything else works well on the Mac, just not the games. I am not a expert on Mac but have been told they lose memory very quick. Can anyone PLEASE help me, I am not computer savvy so if you can explain in simpleton terms that would be great.

Thank you

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jul 20, 2013 2:19 AM

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BDAqua

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Posted on Jul 20, 2013 11:39 AM

Hello, see how many of these you can answer...

See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029

Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?

How much RAM & free Disk space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.

Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.

In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?

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COCO68 Author

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Jul 23, 2013 11:48 AM in response to MichelPM

It was a Apple update. I have spoken to an Apple customer service advisor or whatever they are called today. He checked that my computer is more than adaquate to run Second Life, so now I am going to take the mac to a near by computer expert to see if they can shed some light on this problem, if after all the checks are done then I have to call MAC to confirm if its a mess up there end. I am disappointed MAC do not provide onsite call out.

Nov 20, 2013 6:13 AM in response to COCO68

This is very interesting because Second Life is the only game that I play and I have been wanting the new 27 inch iMac. You are stating here the exact fear that I have for using this computer with Second Life. The main problem that I have been able to read about by searching all over the Web, is the issue with video drivers and OpenGL. I don't know if that is the cause of your problem or not, but I am fearful that this issue will not be solved for you by adding RAM or changing settings. I have friends who say thier Mac does great on SL, but I talk to even more who say that the Mac is always slower in SL than the PC, especiailly in FPS, which is very important in SL. The nVidia GPU is the one that is always stated to work the best in SL.

I don't know how anyone at Apple could tell you that Second Life will work on your machine. I was in the Apple store this week trying to answer that question and the Appler person told me to search Google to find the answer. Well, that retured a very mixed bag. I don't think this is a big deal for Apple, so you may not get much help from them. But, SL does not seem to help a lot either.

Good Luck. I hope you will keep posting here if you find some way to fix your MAC in relation to SL. As an SL citizen, I totally understand your frustration.

Joey

COCO68 Author

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Nov 24, 2013 11:09 AM in response to Joe Thomas3

Hi Joey please do not buy a MAC you will not be able to play SL. I have nVidia graphics in my mac but it still will not work properly on SL. I have now got another DELL which is more than capable of playing any game. Hope this helps you.

Nov 24, 2013 12:22 PM in response to COCO68

THank you Coco. SL is too important to me to risk not having a good experience there, It is hard enough even under ideal condition.

MAC SLOW WHEN PLAYING GAMES