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How to play on a Macbook Pro?
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THE F1XER
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#1 - 2016-11-22 18:19:07 UTC
Hello everyone,

I've recently acquired my first 2015 15" Macbook Pro making my switch from Windows OS to Macintosh. I've got EvE running and well (for now).

I would like to ask the other capsuleers who play on a Mac(book)(pro) on how they maximized their experience. Are there things I should know or do to make my experience smoother or to ease the workload on my Macbook Pro etc. ?

I would appreciate any help.
General Vasheir Gonzales
Leukos Psephos
#2 - 2016-11-22 22:05:04 UTC
What I have done on my iMac is lower the graphic settings one field at a time to determine what kept it looking good while not putting my graphics card fan in overdrive.

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Tir Arsil
Gryfn Ltd
#3 - 2017-01-20 05:15:34 UTC
If you really want to maximize, install Windows under Bootcamp and run it natively. You can install Parallels or VMware after you install the Bootcamp partition and it'll run Windows in a VM if you just need to do something quickly w/low FPS while still within macOS.

Also, macOS's resolution scaling is efficient. Runnng in fixed window mode at a lower resolution can often provide a noticeable performance bump.
Essq
Gradient
Electus Matari
#4 - 2017-01-24 06:02:35 UTC
Well first off, welcome to the Mac world. Haha, I started off hating Macs until later on when what we now know as Macs came onto the scene.

Anyways I run EVE on my 13" early 2011, and while I have some settings, namely the graphics, and it runs just fine. Occasionally some systems and times the load screens when undocking or changing sessions is a bit long. But I think I can chalk that up to the servers being busier at times or being in different systems, like Jita, that are heavy.

I'd say do like General Vasheir Gonzales and myself have done and tune your settings to what works for you, and your Mac's hardware so it's not working double time.

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