Does GTA San Andreas run on a current iMac running OSX Mavericks?

[MartinAppleGuy]

I wish to play GTA San Andreas from the Mac App Store on my iMac (Late 2013 iMac 21.5'' with NVidia GeForce GT 750M 1Gb GDDR5). The last time the game was updated was around a year and a half ago, so it has not been updated to support Mavericks.

My question is - with some of the reviews saying it doesn't run, has anyone got it on their Mac and is using Mavericks? If you could test out the game, that would be great

 

[MacsRgr8]

Played it on two systems running Mavericks (10.9.1):
- Mac Pro '08 with 7950 Mac Edition,
- iMac late 2013 27" GTX 780M

No problems!

 

[MartinAppleGuy]

Played it on two systems running Mavericks (10.9.1):
- Mac Pro '08 with 7950 Mac Edition,
- iMac late 2013 27" GTX 780M

No problems!

Thanks. What was the frame rate like on your iMac? With that GPU, you must be hitting 400fps

 

[MacsRgr8]

Thanks. What was the frame rate like on your iMac? With that GPU, you must be hitting 400fps

LOL, not sure, but it runs very smoothly a max settings!

 

[Altemose]

LOL, not sure, but it runs very smoothly a max settings!

Considering it was designed to run on a PlayStation 2 with whatever 4 MB eDRAM video card it had, I would expect it to run more smoothly than a hot knife through butter.

 

[MacsRgr8]

Considering it was designed to run on a PlayStation 2 with whatever 4 MB eDRAM video card it had, I would expect it to run more smoothly than a hot knife through butter.

Here are the PC system requirements... (nice stroll back memory lane )

Supported Operating System:

Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 1 or higher)
Windows XP (with Service Pack 1 or higher)

Hardware:

Processor: 1Ghz Pentium or AMD Athlon
RAM: 256 MB RAM
Video Card: 64MB Directx9 compatible (GeForce3 or better)
Soundcard: Directx9 compatible
DirectXOM: 8x DVD ROM Drive
Hard D Version: DirectX 9
DVD-Rrive: 4.7 GB free hard disk space
Peripherals: Keyboard and mouse

Recommended:

Processor: Pentium 4 or Athlon XP
RAM: 384+ MB RAM
Video Card: 128MB Nvidia GeForce6 or better)
Soundcard: Directx9 compatible surround sound card (Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Seried Recommended)
DVD-ROM: 16x DVD ROM Drive
Hard Drive: 4.7 GB free hard disk space
Peripherals: Keyboard and mouse

So... yeah... even with the OS X / Open GL-port penalty a new Mac should hit the 100 fps easily.

Still is a fun game!

 

[MartinAppleGuy]

Here are the PC system requirements... (nice stroll back memory lane )



So... yeah... even with the OS X / Open GL-port penalty a new Mac should hit the 100 fps easily.

Still is a fun game!

That really takes me back lol

 

[Altemose]

That really takes me back lol

Ah the days of slow GPUs, bad code, and beige PCs.