GTA IV on iMac - What iMac needed?

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ManuelGnR

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Dec 11, 2008

• #1

What iMac do I need at least if I want to play GTA IV on it? I was planning on buying the 2.8 24'' model, but see wait MacWorld Jan brings first..

What specs do I need to play it nicely? When is the quality stuff bad or good?

 

alphaod

macrumors Core

• Dec 11, 2008

• #2

Well the recommended is Quad 2.4, 2.25GB RAM, 18GB HDD, 8600GT (desktop version).

 

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doctoree

macrumors 6502

• Dec 12, 2008

• #3

While you will be able to play it, even the fastest current IMac won't be able to run it anywhere even near the max settings.
If you are in the market for an IMac, I highly recommend waiting just a couple of days until early January 2009 when Apple will probably release updated IMacs. The only weakness of the current IMacs is gaming, spceifically the Graphics card.
Doc

 

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iGrant

macrumors 6502a

• Dec 12, 2008

• #4

ManuelGnR said:

What iMac do I need at least if I want to play GTA IV on it? I was planning on buying the 2.8 24'' model, but see wait MacWorld Jan brings first..

What specs do I need to play it nicely? When is the quality stuff bad or good?

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Is GTA IV even out for Macs? Are you planning on playing it with Boot Camp or software like Crossover Games?

-iGrant

 

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ManuelGnR

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Dec 12, 2008

• #5

doctoree said:

''...I highly recommend waiting just a couple of days until early January 2009 when Apple will probably release updated IMacs...''

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Like I said, I'll wait till MacWorld at least.

iGrant said:

Is GTA IV even out for Macs? Are you planning on playing it with Boot Camp or software like Crossover Games?

-iGrant

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Yea, should probably use tat Boot Camp or Parallels stuff or something...

 

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iGrant

macrumors 6502a

• Dec 12, 2008

• #6

ManuelGnR said:

Like I said, I'll wait till MacWorld at least.



Yea, should probably use tat Boot Camp or Parallels stuff or something...

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I would avoid running VMs entirely, it just won't work well unless you have a 8-Core Mac Pro. I just thought maybe they release a Mac version, that is why I was asking.

-iGrant