I have a mba 2017 with 8 gb of ram and 128 gb of ssd. Most of the time I work on it, but sometimes want to play some old games like civilization 5 or csgo. Got poor performance(20 fps in csgo and so in civ) using crossover on mac os monterey. What can I do? People on youtube get pretty decent performance in games like these. I thing about getting 256 gb ssd m2 and installing bootcamp. Should it help?
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I dont know much about bootcamp and all of that but from a performance aspect, the base m2 air 256gb will be a massive upgrade from your current set up in every aspect. Games will definitely run much better
yes of course, the difference between the Mba 2017 intel igpu to the M2 will be massive
oh I see, no unfortunately its the measly specs of the 2017 air thats holding you back from gaming performance. SSD will help it load up and open games faster.
No question BUT the inventory of games available for an intel Mac vs. M1 is also massive. Pick your poison ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Do try bootcamp. If possible, temporarily just free up some space on the 128GB SSD just enough so you can make it happen. You can always restore and remove the bootcamp partition afterwards.
You bypass a lot of inefficient translation layers by circumventing virtualisation. Yeah, AAA-games won't cut it on Intel iGPUs regardless, but it's pretty well-established that the games you mention can run on low spec hardware.
You bypass a lot of inefficient translation layers by circumventing virtualisation. Yeah, AAA-games won't cut it on Intel iGPUs regardless, but it's pretty well-established that the games you mention can run on low spec hardware.
the one that runs they will run far better than the intel Macbook air
And on M2 Mba will still have options to run windows games as far as ive seen, while on that 2017 you cannot run almost anything, like OP said, 20fps in csgo.
But its not even about M2 Mba but about SSD change, so this became irrelevant