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Hi!
I was wondering if there is any way that I can download GTA V from Epic Games to a MacBook Pro? I doesn’t let me do that in the Epic Games store. I also have a Lenovo computer (it is very slow) so maybe there is some way I can download it on the Lenovo and transfer it to the Mac?
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Just download on any Windows PC, once you get it, you keep it forever.
Worry about Mac later.
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Thank you for your answer. Although I know that the GTA file on my Windows PC will be too big and it will lag a lot because the PC is pretty old.
You first need Windows on your Mac! Here's a good guide How to play GTA 5 on Mac: System requirements, where to download and more
Do keep in mind these games can kill your system as the Mac laptops just don't have the best cooling and if you have an older one the dedicated GPU's have there limits.
@danj It barely runs on a OEM 7570 1GB with a i7-3770 for me. I have to keep the graphics settings down and limit the resolution. It requires so much VRAM to run right, it maxes out the 1GB VRAM and pulls 512MB of system RAM - just to run. It would choke on a Mac GPU.
The difference is I have a 560Ti I can drop in if/when I kill it, but I need a 500W power supply so I can afford to risk a low spec desktop GPU. The 3770 handles it just fine.
Well we don't know what year of MacBook he has yet maybe he has a 2019 16" Macbook Pro haha.
@benjamen50 i have a MacBook Pro Catalina (13-inch, Mid 2012)
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Older releases (primarily III, Vice City and San Andreas) will run fine on the Mac because the onboard graphics are newer than the base game, so it’s not an issue.
However, that changed with IV, which genuinely does require a GPU to stand a chance. With GTA V, the GPU requirements are much higher. Unless you somehow find it runs okay on Iris integrated graphics with the graphical load it has, you have no choice.
I can barely get V running on an i7-3770 XPS 8500 with the OEM Radeon 7570 (OEM Dell 1GB, which is essentially an OEM 6570) with Win8.1/8GB RAM/1TB HDD/240GB boot SSD. The GPU doesn’t have enough VRAM due to how insufferably bad the card is, and the vBIOS calls for system RAM - 512MB of supporting system RAM to be exact. Not a lot but the GPU calling for system RAM tells me AMD designed the card around light usage but programmed a system RAM pull fallback option to make it seem like a better card then it is. I also need to cut the resolution down tp a much lower than normal level to not upset the GPU due to the 1GB on GPU/512MB (1,536MB) system RAM pull GTA V sees.
nVidia did this back in the days of Intel GMA as well with junk cards like the 9500GT (256/512MB VRAM, so it was literally just a way to get dual displays on a desktop with one video output), but nVidia quit making these things while AMD kept it alive for a lot longer.
You will need an eGPU or a system designed to handle the load for V - NO WAY around it.
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