OS X Retina iMac gaming experiences megathread

[edddeduck]

Gah. That's extremely frustrating. Can I get a Steam version instead somehow? I was really looking forward to it and now I've wasted $40.

You haven't wasted $40 don't worry! The main game works fine right now and the expansion will start to work again soon, we have a test build with a fix in test now, once it passes our checks we'll submit it to Apple.

It's one of the risks of upgrading to a new OS before the first set of OS updates, sometimes new OS's have bugs/issues that need working around.

 

[Confusius]

You haven't wasted $40 don't worry!

I concur. Even thinking of Enemy Within makes me want to go fire up my Mac and play it again.

 

[ErikGrim]

I concur. Even thinking of Enemy Within makes me want to go fire up my Mac and play it again.

This is not helping my wait

 

[thagomizer]

Is anyone playing the Borderlands titles on their 5K iMac?

I've been playing Borderlands 2 at 2560x1440 with all options maxed, and it's running liquid smooth with no apparent stuttering. However, it pegs my GPU at 106 degrees C for the entire time.

I haven't been able to figure out how to play at native res. The 5120x2880 resolution shows up as a choice, but if I select it, it drops back to 2560x1440 when I return to the game.

I have a 4GHz / M295X with 24GB RAM.

 

[Irishman]

I've been playing Borderlands 2 at 2560x1440 with all options maxed, and it's running liquid smooth with no apparent stuttering. However, it pegs my GPU at 106 degrees C for the entire time.

I haven't been able to figure out how to play at native res. The 5120x2880 resolution shows up as a choice, but if I select it, it drops back to 2560x1440 when I return to the game.

I have a 4GHz / M295X with 24GB RAM.

Do you play full screen or windowed?

Also, read my walk through on how to display your running FPS in borderlands 2, here https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20298476#post20298476

 

[thagomizer]

Do you play full screen or windowed?

Also, read my walk through on how to display your running FPS in borderlands 2, here https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20298476#post20298476

Fullscreen. I assume you mean post #41 in this thread. I'll try it next time I play.

 

[bulldogg80]

have someone tried Far cry 4? Running nice?

 

[poisoneduser]

What about battlefield 4 multiplayer ? On what resolution you can play with constantly 60fps ?

 

[Persian-apple]

can somebody test call of duty advancewarfare on r9m290X ? (cuz i cAn only get the base version) on what res how much is the fps ?
and please assure you use newest drivers
another thing.,,
does 1080p gaming on such a big screen look blurry or its fine?

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i mean does the base model do any good about gaming?

 

[ErikGrim]

Civilization: Beyond Earth runs smooth in native 5K Ultra (at least at the start of the game). But for some reason does not support UI scaling like Civ V does.

 

[ErikGrim]

UI scaling seems to be the crutch of most old games. I keep returning to Civ V for its excellent UI scaling support. I'd rather play games at native resolution now that I can. Disappoints me to see games that supports full 5K resolution at top frame rates, yet does not scale the UI. Hello Sid Meier's Railroads!

XCom and Civ V are so far my favourite games to play on this machine. Just stunning.

How the HECK isn't Beyond Earth supporting UI scaling yet Aspyr?

 

[edddeduck]

UI scaling seems to be the crutch of most old games. I keep returning to Civ V for its excellent UI scaling support. I'd rather play games at native resolution now that I can. Disappoints me to see games that supports full 5K resolution at top frame rates, yet does not scale the UI. Hello Sid Meier's Railroads!

XCom and Civ V are so far my favourite games to play on this machine. Just stunning.

How the HECK isn't Beyond Earth supporting UI scaling yet Aspyr?

It really depends on the game engine and assets. UI scaling using engines and assets that were not designed to scale is very difficult to retro fit in afterwards.

 

[ErikGrim]

It really depends on the game engine and assets. UI scaling using engines and assets that were not designed to scale is very difficult to retro fit in afterwards.

Surely Civ BE was built with this in mind, no? The Civ V UI scaling is cromulent enough.

 

[edddeduck]

Surely Civ BE was built with this in mind, no? The Civ V UI scaling is cromulent enough.

UI scaling is not a common feature (yet) in many games. I would not know about specific games but I do know it's not a common feature at the moment.

 

[Eightarmedpet]

Anyone running dayz on the retina imac care to share results?

 

[ErikGrim]

UI scaling is not a common feature (yet) in many games. I would not know about specific games but I do know it's not a common feature at the moment.

Common or not, with retina displays becoming more common and cards able to support it, surely it would be short sighted to release a NEW game in 2014/15 without it? Kind of like how you'd be a pretty poor web developer to not make a retina ready web page for the last couple of years.

The net result is I am not playing Civ:BE yet. The UI is too tiny for playing full resolution, and once you have you're not going to go back to low res graphics. Instead I am playing Civ V with a pixelated UI and sharp graphics or XCOM which supports full res scaling for the UI.

 

[edddeduck]

Common or not, with retina displays becoming more common and cards able to support it, surely it would be short sighted to release a NEW game in 2014/15 without it? Kind of like how you'd be a pretty poor web developer to not make a retina ready web page for the last couple of years.

The net result is I am not playing Civ:BE yet. The UI is too tiny for playing full resolution, and once you have you're not going to go back to low res graphics. Instead I am playing Civ V with a pixelated UI and sharp graphics or XCOM which supports full res scaling for the UI.

Given few PC's (and no consoles) support/use Retina scaling it is a lower priority for games companies that some other tasks. I think as resolutions start growing and 4K becomes more standard in PC gaming (and possible for consoles) then retina scaling will become more standard.

It's not as simple as you might imagine, especially if the engine isn't designed for it. Things always look easier from the outside http://trib.al/2lYE3JM

 

[ErikGrim]

Given few PC's (and no consoles) support/use Retina scaling it is a lower priority for games companies that some other tasks. I think as resolutions start growing and 4K becomes more standard in PC gaming (and possible for consoles) then retina scaling will become more standard.

It's not as simple as you might imagine, especially if the engine isn't designed for it. Things always look easier from the outside http://trib.al/2lYE3JM

Yes indeed. Thing looks easier from the outside. But it was expected that Civ:BE, being basically the same engine that Civ V is, would support UI scaling (with higher resolution assets), when Civ V did (albeit as an after market hack).

 

[edddeduck]

albeit as an after market hack

That is the key, after market hacks can have glitches and side effects as they are free, if you build something into a game it needs to work perfectly.

I am sure if the engines really are that similar a similar hack/mod will appear for the new game too.