Hey there I am thinking of getting one of my friends Aerofly from steam and he used a 2017 mac with an intel I3 chip and 8gb ram. Does anyone know if it will still run at the very least as steam states that a M1/Intel quad core is needed.
Is Aerofly able to run on MacBook Air 2017?
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WAR_Capybara -
August 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM -
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I use FS 4 STEAM-beta on Macs with the chip variants Intel, M1 and M4 - without any problems.
.And for me it says under system requirements: Intel Quad Core or Apple M1 CPU
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How old is the i3? new ones have 4 cores and 8 threads and 12 MB of cache so they easily outperform i7s from ten years ago. They would be perfectly good. Old ones might have had 2 cores and 4 threads with only 2MB of L3 cache so they are a bit past it.
2017 might mean the 2016 7th gen i3 was installed, which have 3 or 4 GB of cache, run between 3.5 and 4 GHz and have 2 cores and 4 threads. That could be a bit marginal, I used an overclocked Anniversary edition Pentium with a fractionally lower spec and Aero ran significantly better after an upgrade. It might work very well with Aerofly settings turned down.Get the exact cpu type e.g. 7th gen i3 7300 or 8th gen i3 8300.
The 2017 8th gen i3s were much more powerful with 4 cores, 4 threads and 6 or 8 MB of cache. Speeds were similar. I think (which means exactly nothing) an 8th gen could be fine with present Aero but it mightn’t cope too well with future really demanding updates but then settings could be turned down if necessary.Older i3s do not have Turbo mode.
Get more ideas, I don’t really know!