BF3 Beta on iMac (Mid 2010)?

[TehFalcon]

How Will BF3 Beta Perform on my iMac? Other games run good, excluding GTA IV Sadly, and I usually can play others on High to Ultra.. But with BF3 Being So Beautiful and Graphics Intensive how will it do?

CPU - 3.06 GHz i3
RAM - 4 GB
HDD - 500 GB 7200-rpm
GPU - HD 4670 256mb (DX 10.1 - Running Catalyst 11.10 Beta BF3 Drivers)
Resolution - 1920x1080

 

[VPrime]

You should be able to play it on low settings.. Even though your video card only hs 256mb.
Here are the requirements from battlefield3.com

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: WINDOWS VISTA (SERVICE PACK 2) 32-BIT
PROCESSOR: 2 GHZ DUAL CORE (CORE 2 DUO 2.4 GHZ OR ATHLON X2 2.7 GHZ)
MEMORY: 2 GB
HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
GRAPHICS CARD (AMD): DIRECTX 10.1 COMPATIBLE WITH 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 SERIES, WITH ATI RADEON 3870 OR HIGHER PERFORMANCE)
GRAPHICS CARD (NVIDIA): DIRECTX 10.0 COMPATIBLE WITH 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 OR 500 SERIES WITH NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT OR HIGHER PERFORMANCE)
SOUND CARD: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
DVD ROM DRIVE
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: WINDOWS 7 64-BIT
PROCESSOR: QUAD-CORE CPU
MEMORY: 4 GB
HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
GRAPHICS CARD: DIRECTX 11 COMPATIBLE WITH 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 OR ATI RADEON 6950)
SOUND CARD: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
DVD ROM DRIVE

I'm more curious how the top end 2011 will handle it... Guess I'll fnd out tomorrow.

 

[zarmati]

Hows it running so far?

Im on my 21 inch iMac and I highly doubt it'll run smoothly on VMWare or Parallels.
Plus Lion made my computer slow
And my 256mb ATI Radeon Graphics card doesn't help

 

[VPrime]

Hows it running so far?

Im on my 21 inch iMac and I highly doubt it'll run smoothly on VMWare or Parallels.
Plus Lion made my computer slow
And my 256mb ATI Radeon Graphics card doesn't help

It won't run at all.. Not just smoothly.
Don't bother even trying to run a game like this in a virtual machine.

Even if you boot your iMac in windows you will hardly be able to run it on low settings.