So, FFXIV will be released on a Mac

I am wondering how FF14 will perform on a 15 inch MacBook pro what ch is what I am going to get once FF is released on a Mac platform

Is there a release date for this?

To my knowledge there is no release date or specs for this yet. I don't think it's possible for anyone to answer the question.

Gaming+Mac.

That has never been a good combination.

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Originally Posted by Hippo

I am wondering how FF14 will perform on a 15 inch MacBook pro what ch is what I am going to get once FF is released on a Mac platform

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Possible work but it might run very slow that depends on ur specs. Game run good on ps3 so it would not be problem for a macbook.

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Originally Posted by Tagihi

Game run good on ps3 so it would not be problem for a macbook.

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Compared to the PS4 and even a half decent PC I wouldn't call it "good" at all. Characters other than the player animate at an attrociously low rate so that they are clearly choppy, load times are poor for players and monsters, the system completely falls apart around things like S rank hunts, and some interface features aren't even available. Hardly "good." More along the lines barely functional.

I play this game on a tablet (surface pro) if I can run the pc version on this I am sure you can run the mac version on that just fine

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

Compared to the PS4 and even a half decent PC I wouldn't call it "good" at all. Characters other than the player animate at an attrociously low rate so that they are clearly choppy, load times are poor for players and monsters, the system completely falls apart around things like S rank hunts, and some interface features aren't even available. Hardly "good." More along the lines barely functional.

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thats not issue i change harddrive on my ps3 with SSD and its works very good, only like u said graphic arents lovely compare to a pc

Been playing XI/XIV on various Apple desktop/laptop hardware for years through Boot Camp. Most systems with discrete graphics cards shouldn't have any trouble playing. Comparing to videos that I've seen I'd say my system performance is somewhere above that of a PS4 and somewhere below a nice custom rig.

My current machine is a late 2013 27" iMac with an Nvidia GTX 780M. I've done S-rank hunts, Odin, and Behemoth without lagging out and eating dirt due to not being able to see stuff coming at me.

So the hardware is undoubtedly capable of running the game. The question is how are they handling the graphics system on the OS X side since it's not going to be based on DirectX. Could be OpenGL, Mantle, Metal... We just don't know at this time.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2609945

All we do know is that progress is continuing and they're aiming for March/April release.

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So the hardware is undoubtedly capable of running the game. The question is how are they handling the graphics system on the OS X side since it's not going to be based on DirectX. Could be OpenGL, Mantle, Metal... We just don't know at this time.

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It'll be OpenGL. Mantle is still in closed beta and Windows only. Metal is IOS only.

To the OP. I have a early 2013 MBP with a GTX 650m. The game runs decent via bootcamp. There were some problems doing fights like Titan, though. Escaping Wotl was a bit of a problem due to graphical lag. But any other fight, the game ran fine.