CarthOnassian Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I currently play SWTOR on my late 2010 original MacBook (the one they discontinued) using Bootcamp with Windows 7 Home Premium. The game runs pretty slow even on 1280x720 resolution and lowest graphics settings. I am planning on purchasing a 21.5" iMac Specs: 2.5ghz Quad Core Intel Core i5 Processor, 4GB 1333mhz DDR3 SDRAM (it's 2, 2GB RAM) 500GB Serial ATA hard drive, and an AMD Radeon HD 6750m 512mb GDDR5 video card. My plan was to transfer the windows 7 license to the iMac and use the Bootcamp utility again. I just wanted to know how many other players out there are using the same or similar setup and wanted to know how the performance was like and how high you could set the graphics and resolution to with a minimal amount of lag. I didn't want to go and spend the $1200 or so dollars on something that wouldn't have been an improvement to my current setup. Thanks for your response Sincerely, CarthOnassian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEEGRAVYTRAIN Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Bump! I'm also interested in hearing what other iMac users experience is. I'm currently running on Leopard and went through hell to get boot camp going on this baby. Graphics are mediocre and looking for an upgrade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmophage Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 i currently have the 2011 27" imac, with the radeon 6750 HD card with 2g or vid memory,, 4g RAM, with the i5 processor. i do have to say with all of this hardware i am not impressed. However it is slow when entering populated areas, and loading up new planets, other than that it runs fine. I do run it on the lowest setting which is depressing due to the amount of video power this box claims to have. If i had to do it again i would have build a windows only gaming PC and kept a lower end imac for my work. As i have learned the hard way playing high end games like Battlefield 3, and Crysis 2, Macs are for work not play. i didn't want to believe it but i think it is the truth. I want something to wow me in gaming graphics for the 2k i spent on this machine. Best of luck hope this helps. i can still play the game normally, it will run it. but it still doesn't match a built for games pc. Cosmo out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teziz Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 i currently have the 2011 27" imac, with the radeon 6750 HD card with 2g or vid memory,, 4g RAM, with the i5 processor. i do have to say with all of this hardware i am not impressed. However it is slow when entering populated areas, and loading up new planets, other than that it runs fine. I do run it on the lowest setting which is depressing due to the amount of video power this box claims to have. If i had to do it again i would have build a windows only gaming PC and kept a lower end imac for my work. As i have learned the hard way playing high end games like Battlefield 3, and Crysis 2, Macs are for work not play. i didn't want to believe it but i think it is the truth. I want something to wow me in gaming graphics for the 2k i spent on this machine. Best of luck hope this helps. i can still play the game normally, it will run it. but it still doesn't match a built for games pc. Cosmo out Not trolling, but really, before you shell out 2k on something, you really need to research. I hope others can learn from your experience. It's good you learned from yours. Anyway, you should only expect this kind of performance out of most Macs simply because their hardware is unimpressive. You typically pay for the experience of Mac OS X when you buy an Apple PC. It's going to be difficult to get past even Medium-Low from less than a 3k+ Mac Pro. That's just the technology in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganelon Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I currently play SWTOR on my late 2010 original MacBook (the one they discontinued) using Bootcamp with Windows 7 Home Premium. The game runs pretty slow even on 1280x720 resolution and lowest graphics settings. I am planning on purchasing a 21.5" iMac Specs: 2.5ghz Quad Core Intel Core i5 Processor, 4GB 1333mhz DDR3 SDRAM (it's 2, 2GB RAM) 500GB Serial ATA hard drive, and an AMD Radeon HD 6750m 512mb GDDR5 video card. My plan was to transfer the windows 7 license to the iMac and use the Bootcamp utility again. I just wanted to know how many other players out there are using the same or similar setup and wanted to know how the performance was like and how high you could set the graphics and resolution to with a minimal amount of lag. I didn't want to go and spend the $1200 or so dollars on something that wouldn't have been an improvement to my current setup. Thanks for your response Sincerely, CarthOnassian I can't really tell you what kind of performance you will get, but it will be better than on your current laptop. I'm currently playing on a mid-2009 Macbook Pro, and I find it's acceptable at best. However, and I have no doubt about this, the performance you'd get from a custom build PC for the same price as the iMac would be superior. If SW:TOR is the main reason you want to upgrade, and you don't have a good reason to stick with Macs, save yourself the money and the hassle of switching to Windows every time you want to play, and get a well built custom PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmack Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I currently play SWTOR on my late 2010 original MacBook (the one they discontinued) using Bootcamp with Windows 7 Home Premium. The game runs pretty slow even on 1280x720 resolution and lowest graphics settings. I am planning on purchasing a 21.5" iMac Specs: 2.5ghz Quad Core Intel Core i5 Processor, 4GB 1333mhz DDR3 SDRAM (it's 2, 2GB RAM) 500GB Serial ATA hard drive, and an AMD Radeon HD 6750m 512mb GDDR5 video card. My plan was to transfer the windows 7 license to the iMac and use the Bootcamp utility again. I just wanted to know how many other players out there are using the same or similar setup and wanted to know how the performance was like and how high you could set the graphics and resolution to with a minimal amount of lag. I didn't want to go and spend the $1200 or so dollars on something that wouldn't have been an improvement to my current setup. Thanks for your response Sincerely, CarthOnassian You will lost about 10% or so performance from using bootcamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangleknot Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) I'm currently running SWTOR on a 2009 Mac, bootcamped win xp. (decent processor 2 gig ram, video card 512mb) I had to turn off just about every program, including antivirus. I bought laptop fan to put underneath it, and turned all video settings on low. It runs, its not laggy, it takes 3 seconds longer to load conversations, but it plays the game fine.It was good machine 3 years ago and I payed 2-3k for it. I wanted to add, that my last PC was from 2002 and I've been upgrading it until 2 months ago.This thanksgiving I built a PC: 16 gigs of ram, i5, SSD, and everything else to make it run fast (I even swapped in my video card that I bought last year). <$800, (~$1,000 if you need a video card). I now get to play games at the highest video settings, no problem. If you want to play computer games and you can't afford to shell out $2-3K every 2-3 years for a new Mac, then I'd suggest building a PC and upgrading it as needed. Edited January 10, 2012 by tangleknot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpswtor Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Hi there, to revive an old thread. I have played swtor on a late 2012 27'' iMac with 16 GB RAM and the NVIDOA 680MX GPU. Oh, I also had the i7 CPU put in. I had Windows 10 installed via Bootcamp. The game ran very nicely on "high" settings except shadows. No issues whatsoever at the native reolution of 2560x1440. Now I just got myself the newset 27 iMac Retina with 16 GB RAM and i7 4GHz CPU. It runs a native resolution of 5120x2880. That is veeery nice when using OSX for work. Crystal clear, sharp display. However, Windows 10 seems to have issues with the AMD GPU Radeon R9 M395X. I scaled the game down to 2560x1440, just as it was on the older Mac. While the graphics look very nice and shiny, there are glitches during loading screen and on the GUI. Very annoying. I hope this will get fixed with a driver update, but AMD does not provide the regular windows drivers for Bootcamp users, in contrast to NVidia, which had excellent driver support. I have no idea, why Apple switched to AMD. In my experience, NVidia always had better cards because of superior drivers. Anyhow. I strongly believe if you wanted to buy a similarly built PC together with a high quality 5k screen, you will have a hard time finding a deal that is significantly cheaper than the Mac. And the Mac has the advantage of running OSX for work, which - when compared to work under Windows - feels like getting a fresh glass of crystal clear ice water after a three day march through the desert. Cheers JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediQuaker Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 . And the Mac has the advantage of running OSX for work, which - when compared to work under Windows - feels like getting a fresh glass of crystal clear ice water after a three day march through the desert. The fanboys come out to play. I've worked with both iOS and Windows PCs (They are both PCs - Personal Computers - btw) Mostly it's just a matter of what you get used to. Trying to suggest that there is some great difference just shows that you are a fanboy and your opinions are suspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALaggyGrunt Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 The iMac is laptop hardware stuck behind a screen and put on a stand, and marked up significantly because it's Apple. You will get a lot more performance for your money if you build your own from parts. For that price, you could get a fast i7, a lot more memory, and a nice mid-high-range graphics card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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