threewholepunch
Chieftain
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2012
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I just purchased a nice refurb mid-2012 MBP model, these are the exact specs:
I'm playing the mac app-store civ v version, my video settings are all set to medium. I am mid-game on a small map, 2 continents, with 6 players and already I am experiencing a bit of lag turn-to-turn and when scrolling the field; I am in full-screen mode.
Does this sound normal? Does it make sense for the turns to take not just a few seconds but to also drop the frame rate? I have more than the recommended specs so I would assume that if I get any lag it would be near end-game. I've played this game on my 2007 MBP model and that system was well below minimum requirements and I seen the same bottlenecks; I expected it on that system but not on this system so early in the game with mid-level settings. OWC sells a 16gb kit for $100 so I might pick that up but I can't imagine that would do much here at this point.
Also, I'm wondering, it's probably not possible to link my app-store civ v game to my steam account is it? Would I have to buy this game again in order for my steam account to know I legit paid for the game? I didn't think about it when I first purchased the game in the app-store and I do have a windows boot came that I might want to try but I'm not going to buy the game again just to do that.
thanks everyone.
15-inch: 2.6GHz
2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
8GB 1600MHz memory
750GB 5400-rpm hard drive1
Intel HD Graphics 4000
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
I'm playing the mac app-store civ v version, my video settings are all set to medium. I am mid-game on a small map, 2 continents, with 6 players and already I am experiencing a bit of lag turn-to-turn and when scrolling the field; I am in full-screen mode.
Does this sound normal? Does it make sense for the turns to take not just a few seconds but to also drop the frame rate? I have more than the recommended specs so I would assume that if I get any lag it would be near end-game. I've played this game on my 2007 MBP model and that system was well below minimum requirements and I seen the same bottlenecks; I expected it on that system but not on this system so early in the game with mid-level settings. OWC sells a 16gb kit for $100 so I might pick that up but I can't imagine that would do much here at this point.
Also, I'm wondering, it's probably not possible to link my app-store civ v game to my steam account is it? Would I have to buy this game again in order for my steam account to know I legit paid for the game? I didn't think about it when I first purchased the game in the app-store and I do have a windows boot came that I might want to try but I'm not going to buy the game again just to do that.
thanks everyone.