Sims 4 on MacBook
I currently use The Sims 4 on a MacBook Pro 2015 (2.7 Ghz Intel i5, 8GB 1867 MHz DDR3 RAM, Intel Iris HD 6100). However, I have noticed that it has started becoming sluggish and stuttery and I am th...
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No one knows how the new ARM equipped Macs are going to perform yet although I'm hoping people will start posting comments when they start shipping this week (I have the bog standard entry level MBA on order) 🙂
No one knows how the new ARM equipped Macs are going to perform yet although I'm hoping people will start posting comments when they start shipping this week (I have the bog standard entry level MBA on order) 🙂
I've had the privilege of testing the game on an M1 MacMini. It is fairly quiet, not as heat generating, and functions. But there seems to be a catch (and maybe this is due to the nature of a MacMini requiring the user to source the other accessories): the FPS seems capped to correspond to the refresh rate the monitor is capable of if the game is to run without crashing. I've switched Vertical Sync on as advised on another forum to prevent crashing. But one thing I did not anticipate is that since I am using a TV monitor (as large as a standard PC monitor) capable of only 60 Hz refresh, I won't be able to go north of 60 FPS. Even weird is that if I attempt playing at full screen 1080p, the refresh rate drops to 24 Hz on the M1 Mac mini. My Intel-based MBP has a 60 Hz refresh rate too but does not crash without Vertical Sync on and sometimes the game performs north of 100 FPS.
Is this what should be expected when Vertical Sync is on and if we use the game on an external monitor (especially a TV one)?
