The iMac as a gaming computer?

Written by Arnan on May 14, 2008 – 4:34 pm

I recently bought an iMac and kind of feared it would not outperform my previous PC in gaming. I had read on various large mac sites that the iMac “still was not capable of running games” and more of such stories.

Soon i discovered that that was not true at all. To properly play games you still need Windows installed so i installed Windows XP Pro SP2 with all updates and all that rubbish. And some recent games. Like ‘Rainbow 6 Vegas 2′ and ‘Supreme Commander’ for example. Both games are quite heavy on the graphics and memory part of the game and i can play both on 1680×1050 resolution all settings high without a hitch.

Also battlefield 2142 which is a bit older but still a heavy game specs wise runs fine with 64 bots enabled on Singleplayer. No problems there.

All fullscreen and high resolution and settings. I don’t see why the iMac would be a bad computer for games. It outperforms my guestpc which is a AMD Dual Core 4200 with a 512MB Vga. While the iMac is a Intel C2D 2.4Ghz with 256MB Vga.

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