Senatov Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 (Through Windows 7 on Boot Camp) iMac 21.5 inch 1080p screen 2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB 1TB Serial ATA Drive AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512MB GDDR5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkey82 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Well, it should run, but I don't know if you'll manage to run it properly on that resolution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uNi Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Moved to PC Performance Tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 No, cause the Mac OS is NOT a supported OS, as mentioned in the Pinned "Can I Run it..." topic AND on the box the game comes in. If you had a Windows PC, it will run on those specs. For the record, the ONLY GTA games that were released for Mac OS's are: III, VC, and SA. On a side note, Why would people want to pay $1,000+ for a Mac, when they could get a Windows PC for as little as $198.? I mean, Macs are a lot slower than Windows PC's, as I have tried them out-the local McDonald's restaraunts(one of them anyway), have Macs set up at 2 tables, I tried them out and they take twice as long to start up and load programs, as well as being A LOT slower than my Windows 7 laptop. Plus, Macs do not have as many programs and applications to run on them like Windows does. I mean, in my opinion, you are just paying for the name when you buy macs.This is just something I was always curious about.? Some input on this would be nice, please.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girish Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 No, cause the Mac OS is NOT a supported OS, as mentioned in the Pinned "Can I Run it..." topic AND on the box the game comes in. If you had a Windows PC, it will run on those specs. For the record, the ONLY GTA games that were released for Mac OS's are: III, VC, and SA. Did you miss the part where he said he's running Windows 7 via Boot Camp? It's the first line of his post. His system is good enough to run the game; the only problem being the high resolution as mkey82 has pointed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unc13bud Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 lol, at least he didn't add "just as a friendly heads up" at the end of it. yeah op, search on youtube for "boot camp" and "gta IV" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigglyass Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 It will run fine, but don't expect great settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 It will run fine, but don't expect great settings. Just curious, How is IV going to run fine on that PC, when he has 2 OS's running off of the same Processor, Ram, and V. card.? How is that not going to slow down the PC? I'm not that knowledgeable when it comes to the inner workings of PC's-I just mostly know the basics of that stuff, but it seems like if you were to have 2 OS's on the same PC(in this case the Mac os AND Windows 7), that it would cause the processor, RAM, and V. Card to become slower than it would if there were only one OS on it and bog down the PC.? Just a heads up, the reason I ask so many questions on here, is cause I am trying to gain more knowledge about the inner workings of computers-more than just the basics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Bootcamp simply allows one to install two OS's that you can boot into at startup on a Mac. What you speak of is running an OS inside another OS which would give a performance hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeesPwnMets Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 It will run fine, but don't expect great settings. Just curious, How is IV going to run fine on that PC, when he has 2 OS's running off of the same Processor, Ram, and V. card.? How is that not going to slow down the PC? I'm not that knowledgeable when it comes to the inner workings of PC's-I just mostly know the basics of that stuff, but it seems like if you were to have 2 OS's on the same PC(in this case the Mac os AND Windows 7), that it would cause the processor, RAM, and V. Card to become slower than it would if there were only one OS on it and bog down the PC.? Just a heads up, the reason I ask so many questions on here, is cause I am trying to gain more knowledge about the inner workings of computers-more than just the basics... Your talking about a virtual machine, which is running a OS inside another OS.Dual booting is installing two OSes on seperate partitions or hard drives. You can chose to boot up to one OS, which will use all system resources. To get back to your other OS, you need to reboot and boot up to that OS, which will use up all system resources. Having two OSes on one WILL NOT impact performance on either OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluterus Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Man ignore these silly comments. These are my specs on my worst machine. E7500 2.93ghz Asus P5KPL AM/PS 4GB DDR2 800mhz Corsair crap stuff with no heat spreaders Radeon HD 6870 1gb 500gb Sata 1 5400rpm 2.5" drive in a 3.5" tray These are the settings I run smooth as. 1920x1080 Anisotropic 16x All highest settings Traffic Density 30 only cause I get the taxi glitch View distance 35 Draw distance 40 Texture quality or whatever the other is 100 View and draw is only limited by the amount of video ram. Even my i7-950 with two GTX570's in sli can't run it max because max view and draw distance requires like 1680mb ram. My old q9550 with gtx275 1792mb could go max everything. In my experience any current card can run the game max except view distance which is purely reliant on video ram. Kind of stupid one gtx275 can run max everything flat out and my gtx570's in sli cant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anus Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 What OS do you run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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