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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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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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