I'm having poor graphics performance issues, stuttering, and lag when playing sim city on OSX. When playing in boot camp on Windows 7 I don't have any problems at all, it's even smooth when all settings are maxed out. When playing in OSX with settings maxed out, it's pretty much unplayable. I know for a fact it is not my computer... I'm running a Mac Pro with OSX 10.8.4, 8 core Intel Xeon processors, 32GB of ram, 4 solid state hard drives, and an ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB Ram.

@908ryan wrote: I had 10.7.4 OS. When i open my city it looks like grass is growing vertical out of the ground, and the roads hardly show up. I am downloading 10.8 which is costing me an additional 20$. Is this an OS issue, or is the game going to fix this bug/glitch. Yes 10.8.4 should fix that issue for you if you have an HD3000 graphics intel chip. In regards to the issue where the screen is all mashed up, not for performance perse. ---- Thank you to @noidpr and @nismoz34498 for reporting this. If you lower the settings on the Mac version does it help any or does it feel disconnected from settings? There's been alot of troubles reported with Mac performance ☹️

game issue i believe... I have the latest OS installed.

Same Here, i Run on Windows (bootcamp) with my iMac 27" And with parallels on my Retina MacBook Pro and i get well performance on Medium ALL, But When i tried to play today on both mac... with the same settings that i used on windows.... wow, CANT EVEN PLAY because it wasn't moving....iMac Specs1.12 TB Fusion DriveAMD Radeon HD 6770M 512MB12 GB Ram 1333MHzMacBook Pro Retina256GB Apple SSDNVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1GB8GB Ram 1600MHz Both Running Mac OS X 10.8.4... Well im giving out of this game because this is an abuse... :robotmad:Spoiler (Highlight to read)

I had 10.7.4 OS. When i open my city it looks like grass is growing vertical out of the ground, and the roads hardly show up. I am downloading 10.8 which is costing me an additional 20$. Is this an OS issue, or is the game going to fix this bug/glitch.

If you lower settings it is better, but looks horrible. I should have no problems running 1080p with all settings on high or ultra. No problems whatsoever on windows with these settings. Another problem I am having is you have to click everything multiple times for it to do anything. For some reason it isn't very responsive when clicking on things.

Sim City Mac graphics issues on a very well equipped Mac Pro...

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Anonymous
12 years ago
What are you system specs? Go to "About this Mac" and list the GPU (graphics card) that is the most important thing I'm concerned about. Other good info is the Processor (CPU), RAM, OSX version, and Resolution if possible.

Have you tried setting everything to Min/Low with a low resolution and still no good?
Anonymous
12 years ago
i dont know how to lower the resolution.
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
Anonymous
12 years ago
You and your tinker toy video don't get to do that until after you meet the OSX version requirement, 10.8.4
mrphibs
12 years ago
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.
kaih303
12 years ago
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?
Anonymous
12 years ago
Your drivers may be outdated.

To check if any updates are available please do the following:

Click on the Apple in the upper left corner of the screen
Select "Software Update..."
Any updates available will be listed and able to be downloaded or you will be told your software is up to date

If you play with a Windows virtual machine, follow standard Windows drivers update procedure. 🙂
Anonymous
12 years ago
I have the latest OS installed. >>> with same problem

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