Best graphic settings for MacBook Air 13” (early 2015)

@fashionbug123 

 

It's nigh on impossible to answer your questions as everyone has a unique Mac setup. As well as hardware and OS, performance depends on:

 

• what other apps, background tasks and processes are running on your Mac
• how you play the game
• whether you spend more time in build mode than live mode
• how good you want the graphics to look versus performance
• how often you visit populated community lots
• which lots they are
• which world you are in
• which mods you have installed
• if you use CC, whether that CC is alpha (high poly) or not

There really are so many variables. The only good piece of advice anyone can give you is to play around with your settings and see what suits your game style. But, to answer your individual questions:

Display on full screen or windowed ( I do not have windowed full screen mode on my laptop I don’t know why and it should have have all 3 display modes)

- whichever providers the best overall, smooth, lag free performance for you

 

Which resolution should I set it as if I should play with full or windowed? 

- the one that looks the best but doesn't impact performance

Why I don’t have other option than default for Refresh Rate? 

- because it just isn't there. I don't think I've ever seen another option on any of my Macs over the last 6/7 years

 

Should I turn on Vertical Sync or uncheck it?

- on to reduce tearing

 

Which Graphic Quality is best for this type of Mac? Ultra, High, Medium, Low or Custom but which custom quality? 

- whichever one provides the best, lag free gaming experience. The graphics chip is very low spec.

Should I turn on Uncompressed Sim Textures, Post Processing Effects and Laptop Mode or turn them off?

- depends how you want your game to look. If turning them on reduces performance, turn them off

 

What affects the game clock/time to not sync properly with and without mods also and how do I fix this 

- look in the bug forum https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs