Planetcoaster on mac?! SOS

unprotectedangel

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Hi guys ! After a lot of research i already noticed i cant play planet coaster on mac because its simply not available. But i really, really want to play the game! So i wondered is there someone who plays it on a Imac/macbook and how did you do it? ( I live in europe tho.)

And if its really not possible, im willing to buy a PC. But what do i need in a PC? And how many will it cost me to buy a good enough pc to play the game.

thanks for the help!

( Also? why doesnt it run on mac? the Sims 4 runs perfectly and thats a big ass game haha ! why wouldnt this work :( )
 

Joël

Volunteer Moderator
Joël
Hi and welcome to the Planet Coaster forums.

Unfortunately, Apple has long since ended their support for OpenGL, the DirectX counterpart on OSX / macOS. Planet Coaster (and previous games by Frontier, such as Elite: Dangerous) are developed using DirectX technology. Because OpenGL is no longer supported by Apple on OSX / macOS, DirectX games can no longer run on Apple devices.

The alternative would be to use BootCamp on a Mac so that you can install Windows and play DirectX games on a Mac in that way.

It isn't profitable to develop Planet Coaster to use other technology such as Metal and/or Vulkan instead of DirectX.
 

Palaber1984

Palaber1984
Get a pc and don’t pay to much. The game will even make performances problems on higher pc. I have a 1000€ pc and it is totally ok. I can play on ultra settings without problem. The problems starting when you have a lot of objects and lets say over 5-10k peeps in the park. And with objects I mean a lot of objects like our featured players do.

Like I said 1000€ are totally fine. Don’t pay to much if don’t need it.
 

Helena

Helena
Remember to buy stationary pc, not laptop (unless you are rich and really want laptop) and research what to buy. Not doing research = waste of money.
 

aDOLPHINjoy18

aDOLPHINjoy18
It may cost you like $1000 to get a PC good enough to play Planet Coaster.

Your PC should have a quad core Intel Core i5 or i7 with at least 3.2Ghz clock speed. It should also have at least a dedicated GPU. The GPU on my HP laptop (AMD R7 M360) can run this game but only on 720p low everything settings on small parks. Something like a GTX 1050 or a GTX 970 or GTX M980.

The majority of the market use PC not MAC which is why game developers choose PC over MAC in many cases.

If you want to play on 1080p higher settings, you need a high end PC. Something like a GTX 1060 and a quad core i5/i7 with at least 3.4Ghz.

I think EA released The Sims 3/4 on PC first before they did on Mac. I give thumbs up for Mac looking cute and sleek and being a manufacturer not obsessed in making most of their products boring black colour. But Mac has compatibility issues with many commonly used software and their hardware is overpriced and not really that powerful for the price they're asking.

Laptops are great for young people and students as they're portable and light.

Planet Coaster is a very demanding game. it is like 10x more demanding than The Sims 4. So you need a CPU with a high clock speed since the game only utilizes Directx11 which only efficiently uses only one of your CPU cores. I have an i7 6700k 4.2Ghz and GTX 1070 and on my super park I play 4k higher settings and get 16-22fps. I myself am considering getting a GTX 1080 Ti and an i7 8700k which has a higher turbo boost speed and 2 more cores. Planet Coaster will utilize all your CPU cores, but being Direct x11, it will not utilize all your CPU cores to their full potential, a job which Microsoft's Directx12 Windows 10 would be better at. But understandably not everyone like Windows 8/10. I like 7 and 10 but don't like 8 and vista.

Here's a link of what you want to be looking for in a laptop. These are the official recommended/minimum specs for this game:
https://www.planetcoaster.com/en-gb/system-requirements
 

LN

LN
If you don't (want to) play on 4K or Ultra. I would suggest a A i5-6500 combined with a GTX1050ti. The game will work perfectly on that on med-high settings. At least it does for me.

I feel there is no real need to buy better than this as I don't think games other than PC would require these beefy setups at this moment, or in the near future.
I think the newer video cards and processors are a bit of a overkill at the moment.

Also, I have the feeling a lot of people here run extreme resolutions and put all settings to high which might have an effect on performance.

So if you are an average gamer like me I would suggest a setup somewhere in the line of what I said above. The GTX1050ti is a really really good affordable card.
 

Castaway1

Castaway1
I play Planet Coaster using bootcamp on my iMac since alpha and never had a problem with it.
I'm playing in 4K with high settings.

Imac 5K (2015) 32 GB ram, i7 4ghz, amd 4Go.

Bootcamp is easy to use. I dedicated 80Gb on my hard drive for windows.
 

Kaveh300

K
Palaber1984 said:
Get a pc and don’t pay to much. The game will even make performances problems on higher pc. I have a 1000€ pc and it is totally ok. I can play on ultra settings without problem. The problems starting when you have a lot of objects and lets say over 5-10k peeps in the park. And with objects I mean a lot of objects like our featured players do.

Like I said 1000€ are totally fine. Don’t pay to much if don’t need it.
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You probably need to update your graphics card.
 
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