The application also provides advanced 3D mapping capabilities thanks to the built-in Texture Coordinate Editor. The program comes with a friendly layout and is packed with lots of powerful features which will simplify the creation of your 3D models.
But all this last ramble is to say don’t forget to try bootcamp, it might allow you to use drivers the MacOS doesn’t, and those might help with performance, etc.AC3D is a powerful yet easy to use software tool which gives you the possibility to quickly and effortlessly create 3D models for a wide variety of applications, such as flight simulation and virtual reality, games, medical, scientific and general data visualization programs, X-Plane, Google Earth, 3D printing, rapid prototypes of 3D designs, Second Life and many more.ĪC3D is available for all major systems, including Linux, Windows and Mac OS. well I go to an empty spot and use the nvidia card (even as old as it is!). But if I want to make a scene to take a really great photo. I still use my iMac more, cause I RP and the highest graphics are not as important for that. I use bootcamp there, and you can tell it’s just ‘better’ (than the card/gpu in my iMac I mean, and on both Mac and Windows sides) - I’m not verse enough to tell you specifically, and there might be folx who can’t point out ways it’s not entirely accurate, but IMO it’s smoother, and looks a bit better (darker, but better). One last thing I will add: I don’t know about the latest AMD cards, but I also have an old 2012 MacBookPro with a discreet nvidia card in it. even ‘fast’ WiFi still seems to be wonky. hard wired has always worked better for me. I also often play with the draw distance and that helps a lot. usually just taking off advanced lighting. In those cases I just don’t run in ultra. IMHO it is usually because mesh stuff is not built well and SL, etc., has to chew on stuff more. My current machine is the late 2015 iMac. most have always had discreet graphics as well. I’ve run SL on my various macs for YEARS.
This should be a pretty good system to run SL keeping in mind that even if you have a much stronger system, at the end of the day SL's rendering engine/the game itself tends to be the biggest limiting factor in performance (Don't expect too much when the sim is massively populated) However, it's your machine and if you really want the Mac, then you do you. You could have spent less than half that on a desktop and get much more performance (or about half on a 'gaming' laptop with a stronger GPU and CPU pairing).
SL also being a very CPU bound game means that the CPU you listed should be pretty good with its single-core IPC (seeing that SL isn't a very multithreaded program)Īnd last point: the money you spent on a machine doesn't directly imply performance. Slow drives are a huge bottleneck in many games that store a lot of the required data on the drive. Second, an SSD is really relevant to ingame performance especially with as many cache/drive calls as SecondLife makes. Pretty good and you should get a decent performance out of the machine. Join the chat group in world, paste following into local chat and click the link that appears.įirst of all, you didn't post the GPU specs.įrom what I remember those newer models come with AMD Vega mobile GPU's, and they aren't half bad. If you don't like the balance of content, post more of the content you want to see.
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