can macbook pro 15-inch: 2.5GHz with Retina display run unreal engine 4

anonymous_user_7286e41c · January 11, 2015, 11:49pm

after i bought unreal engine 4 my mac mini could not run it i thought that at least i will be able to learn some stuff cuz i work with unity and it’s fine, so i wanna to buy new computer my budget is $2500 maybe bit more i really want to get mac pro cuz im an ios & android developer and i love mac development environment should this mac pro run UE4 or what is the best machine the this budget

15-inch: 2.5GHz
with Retina display
Specifications
2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz
16GB 1600MHz memory
512GB PCIe-based flash storage 1
Intel Iris Pro Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB GDDR5 memory
Built-in battery (8 hours)2

anonymous_user_adf9f84e · January 12, 2015, 2:28am

Yeah, I have a late 2011 MBP with some modifications that i did:

2,2 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Ati Radeon HD 6750M de AMD 512 MB GDDR5
SSD Crucial M4

It works fine in Mavericks and in Windows 8.1 (bootcamp partition). Sometimes it runs a little bit low on fps because of the graphic card (512MB is not really good).
I’m almost sure that with that graphic card, 16GB and the i7 will run great

PD: maybe some other guys own a new MBP, this is the computer I use when I’m abroad

darthviper107 · January 12, 2015, 2:47am

It will run it, but not that powerful–mostly due to the graphics card. You could get more power on a Windows PC, but you would still need a Mac if you were developing for iOS.

anonymous_user_bcdd396d · January 12, 2015, 7:05pm

For game development I recommend a Mac desktop over a Macbook and with the best graphics card you can equip it with vs 2 separate cards because UE4 does not support SLI.

anonymous_user_426edf5e · January 12, 2015, 7:38pm

Hi!

Yeah, not really fast running on my MBP 8gb RAM with Intel Iris and i5 - you’ll AT LEAST, be able to complete the tutorials, develop not really heavy games and play around without problems - with not Epic settings it runs really smoothly as well ;D

Kind Regards.

anonymous_user_bcdd396d · January 12, 2015, 7:46pm

I should add the condition, depends on what you are developing for… iOS? MBP should be fine. AAA title? -go with my first response.

Sunchaser · June 28, 2015, 1:10am

A bit late to this party/thread (came here thru google).
I’ve been running Unreal Engine 4.8 the entire day (warm day) and my fan seems absolutely wasted.
Hadn’t noticed it during the day cause I had music on , but now , in the evening , when all is quiet , my macbook pro seems to have picked up a new (ticking/rotating) sound in the fan. Not sure if it’s temporary.
Just did a reboot and it’s still there.
And, rest assured, my macbook was almost soundless before I started playing around in UE.

Also , when I boot unreal engine , the process eats about 600% of my cpu … especially during lightmass calculations.

So - not sure if I’ll be running UE again on my macbook… seems to put the hardware in too much strain …