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hey guys this is Austin and today ting here's the video going over what should be a pretty simple question can you actually game on a Mac if you ever read the comments you'll realize that if you ever mention the words gaming and Mac in the same sense people love to explain why that's a terrible idea but surely it can't be that bad the first thing is actually finding games that work on OS 10 take a look in the Mac App Store and you'll find a few games including hitman and sieve five as well as quite a few classic titles like GTA san andreas and rollercoaster tycoon but not a huge variety of Triple A games download open EMU and you'll find support for quite a few emulators including Gameboy Genesis and Super Nintendo but still nothing all that new jump into origin from Mac and you'll find SimCity in The Sims 3 along with a few older games like Batman but you won't find any battlefield or crisis here on the other hand when I installed steam I was actually surprised right out of the box over half my Steam library shows up just fine on OS 10 including some big-name titles like BioShock Infinite Metro last light and tomb raider emitted Lee a lot of the games are anti titles but there's still a pretty reasonable selection including basically all valve games to make things at least somewhat fair I tested with a late 2013 Mac Pro now all this is by no means a gaming PC as it's really made for things like photo and video editing however it is rocking some pretty decent specs inside we're looking at a 6 core Intel Xeon CPU clocked at 3.5 gigahertz dual AMD FirePro d500 graphics cards 32 gigabytes of RAM and a 256 gigabyte SSD compare this to a gaming PC and you'd be looking at something like a core i7 49 30 K along the 2 Radeon r9 280 cards which would be slightly faster but also lose out on the workstation features for the first game we have the Walking Dead Season 2 while this is hardly an incredibly demanded game when you crank up the settings and play it at 4k it actually looks pretty nice playing through the latest episode which I actually won't show to not spoil things if you guys haven't played it yet I didn't have any issues at all everything played perfectly smoothly just as if I was playing on Windows moving up to something just a little more demanding we have Metro last light I've already taken a look at this port running on steamos and it's very similar on Mac you've got the entire game in DLC however the quality settings are pared down to an incredibly simple slider which just dries the nerded me crazy gameplay is fine although the way os10 handles mouse acceleration does take a little getting used to and even with the graphics mech style it's still not quite on par with a gaming PC if you take off your PC master-race hat though it is completely playable next we have BioShock Infinite which seems to be a better port overall basically all of the settings are intact allowing you to fine tune the graphics and once you turn on vsync you will be hard-pressed to notice a major difference between playing on a Mac or PC it certainly doesn't hurt that infinite is a great looking game regardless of platform even all the way back to the last generation consoles probably the most impressive game I've tried on Mac is Tomb Raider as a fully functioning port you also get access to all the settings and the graphics look great running right up against the 60 frames per second vsync limit which really helps with a screen tearing that you'll find otherwise unlike some DirectX games that have been ported to OpenGL Tomb Raider hasn't lost much visual quality with plenty of detail and correct textures and effects now of course there's nothing stopping you from installing Windows via bootcamp which will immediately get you access to way more games however forget to say I'm impressed with how many games actually work pretty well running natively in OS 10 don't get me wrong though a mac pro is completely insane as a gaming PC is you can build something better for much less if that's all you want to do with it if you plan on getting a Mac and just want to do a little gaming with it though I think it's totally possible so what do you guys think about gaming on a Mac let me know in the comments below and be sure to hit that subscribe button if you're new to the channel anyway guys thank you so much for watching I will catch you in the next one