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mattandphilsims
7 years ago
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Mac performance not what it should be

On a thread (that's now dead) on The Sims official forums, I saw lots of people with lower-end Macs getting almost double the frames per second that I get.   I have a Retina Macbook Pro from mi...
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    Bluebellflora
    7 years ago
    @pkessler594

    Ok. You should get decent FPS but don't expect 45-60. I have an AMD Radeon Pro 560 with 4Gb VRAM and I get about 35. I have all packs installed and all graphics options set to the highest. All the updates and packs add more strain on the CPU and GPU. The Mac I stated in the thread you linked gets about 20-25 FPS now - there's way more in the game and the later operating systems demand more power. Even though the game is native to macOS it is not fully optimised to utilise the hardware and the power within later OSs 🙂
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Bluebellflora
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7 years ago
@mattandphilsims2

Just to clarify FPS because there seems to be a little confusion in this thread. FPS is affected by hardware, mainly graphics card and CPU, and how the operating system handles the heat produced when playing games. MacOS will throttle power to the GPU and CPU to stop your Mac from overheating and not living a very long life. I'm sure Windows probably does too but I'm not familiar enough with Windows to know.

Make sure your Mac is elevated and air can circulate underneath to help keep it cool. High poly CC will also severely impact performance in the game if your graphics card is not very powerful.

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