Is my Mac compatible enough?

Recently I have been more, and more interested in running the latest Unreal Engine 4 software on my Mac.

So here is what I got…

Big Sur

Processor 2,3 Ghz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
Memory 8GB 2133 MHz DDR4
Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB

I know that I do not have a SDD, however I have an HDD SATA drive. Which might mean that I can’t run UE4, however I am not entirely sure? I have been wondering around online trying to figure it all out…

I really want to make video games, and cool characters. However I probably want to use the program in order to make actual limb prosthetics (Planning them, making them, and concepts). I do not really know if I could use it for prosthetic making?

If more details are needed, then the serial number is C02XV4STH7JY.

If I cannot use this program, then I am open for suggestions (Such as an alternative program, or trying to use an older version of UE somehow, etc,)

Best thing is to try it, it’s free. A quick look at your specs leads me to think the Intel card is going to be the major bottleneck.

no need for the serial I have the same computer you have the iMac 2017 First Generation with the Iris Plus 640 ← the one thing it can’t do is Ray Tracing that’s going to be a Limiting Factor but here’s plausibly what the future could hold for you, buy a EGPU and an Apple Cinema Display , and Upgrade the RAM, upgrade the Hard Disk to an NVME Drive SATA Version… , and Upgrade the Logic Board … but the logic boards going to change the Serial number and all that what’s of , but that’s something apple would Service… anyway… ok so you don’t HAVE to do ALL of the above, maybe just RAM and the HDD , and PLAYING the games on Minimum settings may work, and you may be able to get a rough draft template from start to finish of your project , what issue I’m running into now is actually using it to run the game such as PLANESHIFT an mmorpg being rebuilt using the Unreal Engine but I AM using macOS and it says WHILE Sonoma was the last supported OS for Vulkan actually it would be Ventura this is bad because we need Sonoma to specifically run for what the developer compiled Planeshift to run on is the Sonoma OS so we need the OpenCore Legacy Patcher in order to run this… now it runs just like it does using Linux and WINE , the actual Linux Client runs Regularly id say … so it DOES work … but we want the Support that came with the thing in the first place so I’m on 14.4.1 and this model is bootloader-compatible with Seqouia ← the last release there will ever be…