I have the following specs:
iMac 2011
2.5Ghz Intel Core i5
8GB ram
AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512MB
OSX 10.8.4
Screen resolution is set to 1920 x 1080, 60hz (which fits my 21.5 inch monitor and matches my everyday current desktop display resolution).
Framerate cap is set to 30.
Anti-aliasing set to 'ON'
V-Sync set to 'ON'.
Filter 'OFF'
Initially I start on 'High' for everything. Lighting, Textures., Shadows, Geometry, Animation Details. But as my city grows in size I have to constantly reduce the graphic settings from High all the way down to Low. It's a shame really as I bought this game for the graphics as well as the game play. I'm already at setting 'Low' on everything and just about filled the entire map.
So reducing it down to something that looks like it was developed in the early 90's is not really what I was expecting.
Are my system specs to low?
EA quote the following specs at: https://help.ea.com/uk/article/simcity-system-requirements
"... Lion OSX 10.7.5 with a Core 2 Duo processor
2 GB of RAM
12 GB of Hard Drive space
Either an Intel HD 3000, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M, or ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics card...."
I do feel sorry for anyone that has lower specs than mine and expects to enjoy this game as it should be.
I've got a 2013 Mac Pro with 2x ATI FirePro D300 graphics cards, each with 2 GB RAM. The game is so slow even on medium graphics settings. How can this be? Do I need to upgrade to the next level of Mac Pro to get enough graphics horsepower to actually play the game?
