Hi all,

The wait is nearly over, and I recently got into a unresolved debate with a friend regarding whether or not to buy Fallout 4 on PS4 or on iMac (PC – Bootcamp).

I’m hoping to get some feedback to determine which system would overall perform better at 1080p, and what settings (Medium/High/Max) would you predict i could achieve?

I would be running the game via Bootcamp with the AMD’s 15.2 Driver. However, I’m curious to know what sort of quality could I achieve with this system?

I’m currently running an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), 4 GHz Intel Core i7, 24 GB RAM, R9 M295X 4096 MB with SSD.

Although some games such as Skyrim, Fallout 3, Call of Duty AW and the Sims 4 run smoothly at High (4K). Games like GTA IV, Alien, City Skyline and Farcry 4, I struggle to get playable frame rates at moderate/low settings in 4K, and sometimes reduce to 1440p to get smooth gameplay.

I've recently been trying out Mad Max with Bootcamp on a 1080p screen and seem to play it on a High/Very High Settings, getting around 45-70 fps.

I’d appreciate to know what performance settings would you predict I could achieve with this system? Could I get Low/Medium 4K? Or 1440p High?


Here are the recommended Fallout 4 PC specs:

o Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
o Intel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent
o 8 GB RAM
o NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent


Thanks for your time,

I wouldn't hold out hope that the iMac has the graphics power to play the game....gonna be nothing but heart-ache (by the numbers). Go with the PS4.

Trade in the overpriced toaster and get a real computer.

Yeah, very original and funny!

I have a 2012-iMac and I personally wouldn't recommend to play Fallout 4 on a iMac. I tried to play assassins creed 3 I think it was a month ago and it barely worked for me. I would go for the PS4. The iMac is best used for work-related programs!

Macs are great, but not for gaming.There are always too many hurdles to take and unforeseen problems, yes you can game on a Mac, it's just never going to be ideal.

You shouldn't be mean about the PS4 like that.

On topic, I love macs, but I've never found running PC games via emulators to be a satisfactory solution.

heck, running Fallout Pip-Boy on a MacBook is sluggish via BlueStacks...

I see that everyone is too busy being "witty" and going "hur hur Mac suc", to actually read his specs, and his comments about playing games at 4K.

R9 M295X 4096 MB

Yes, it's a mobile. But it's not like it's Intel HD or anything.

That said, I doubt you'll get decent performance at 4K, and should probably go with something lower.

(Also, you should have just gone into the regular "Can I play it" thread, instead of making a thread with Mac in the title - that always seems to draw out the PC partisans.)

Bootcamp isn't running an emulator. It's dual-booting directly into Windows. Before I built my gaming PC, I played plenty of PC games with Win XP on my old iMac with an HD2600XT/256mb (this was the 2006-2011 era. Oblivion, Fallout 3/NV, Mass Effect 1/2, Sacred 2, Bioshock, Borderlands, etc.)

As long as you keep the resolution down, you should be just fine. The GPU may be mobile, but it isn't exactly the weakest one ever to have existed either

I will be playing the game on my Retina Macbook Pro - its not a gaming machine, but as long as i don't exceed 900p, even demanding games are running quite nicely (and look nicely).

You could of course consider getting an eGPU setup - I know i will be getting one, solving GPU performance problems permanently.

About the only game I know that actually runs well on a Mac was Age of Empires 3... I wouldnt hold out hope that Fallout 4 can run on it. you'd be better off goign with the ps4 version.

Is their a neither option? Both svck. But out of the two, I'd never touch a Mac. I'd put it this way for any gaming:

PC > Xbox > Everything else > Mac

If a Mac has the right hardware for the job, I don't see what's keeping you from installing Windows onto it so you can dual boot between it and ios.