MacBook Air Gameplay

How can I play this on a 2014 11' MacBook Air? It has OSX Big Sur, 4GB of DDR4 RAM, a Haswell 4th Gen Intel Core i5 (4250U) and Intel HD Graphics 5000. is there a way to play on a Mac? My PC just broke (its 8 years old so its not worth repairing). I love BeamNG and want to still play it.

Thanks!

 

i dont think beamng is suited for an apple operating system.
ram also seems to be a bit small. i have similar specs but an 8gb ram and windows, and i play at the lowest graphics and it runs fine. like i said earlier, i dont think there is support for mac os

 

Yeah I have a intel core i7 laptop I run BeamNG on it, with the lowest settings, and I’m lucky to get 30fps on gridmap. I would recommend a pc.

 

If you're running Windows 10, it might barely play on lowest settings at Gridmap, but in MacOS, it's like shooting mines in a barrel, it's not going to work and even if it works, it will just blow up in your face.

 

Yeah I have a pc. that’s why I don’t use the laptop lol

 

Actually this game can run on a lot rougher hardware then most think. At the very minimum you will "need" to run Windows 7 or 10 on your Mac via Bootcamp. You can try to emulate it with Wine or something, but just trust me... it's better this way.

Once you do that, honestly, at the lowest settings... you still won't see anything above 40fps... probably. Not so much because of your computers actual power... it's a lot better than what I used to play on... but the fact that its a MacBook "Air" in particular is what's really gonna hurt you. The MacBook Air was designed to be super thin and punch way above its weight class when it came out... and, while it does do that, it only does that when it's cool. Once you hit it with a sustained load (like running BeamNG for instance) that puppy is gonna heat up fast and thermal throttle HARD especially because of the fact that in those old Air's, the fan that is in it doesn't even draw air across the CPU... as if the heat problem wasn't bad enough...

I say all this because I used to run the game on a 2010 MacBook Pro... Core2Duo, 4GB of Ram, and a NVidia 320M which alone is about 75% less powerful than your Intel HD Graphics. I used to get around 25 to 30fps, but my Mac had a massive advantage over yours. It has a fan that wouldn't be out of place in a Dyson that keeps the thing cool no matter how hard you hit it. You will not have that luxury.

If you can figure out how to keep the thing cool and you put Windows 10 on it (already a hit on that "keep it cool" factor as Windows naturally runs much hotter on Mac's) it will probably run Beam... poorly... nothing more really... perhaps enough to hold you over till you get your next computer but that's about it really. Its all about the graphics power and keeping those graphics cool, and your gonna struggle to do that in an Air.

 

If you're really a masochist then you could try running Windows (Or even Linux I guess) and do everything you can to keep the thing cool, as ATV said. Laptop cooling pads with built in fans are fairly cheap. I use to play with a i7 4500U/745M/8GB ram on medium settings, so maybe that system has a shot at low settings/30fps if you can avoid thermal throttling.

That being said, there's plenty of extreme budget build guides on Youtube. I would certainly look into something like that in the meantime. Even if you end up with similar performance on paper, having an upgrade path and not having to worry about thermal throttling would be a huge help.