

If you aren't able to run Minecraft: Does upgrading your Mac to the latest macOS version fix it?

The latest version of macOS available to you, if you haven't upgraded to the latest version yetĦ. I have some Minecraft screenshots from the Mac days which all say: "NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS OpenGL Engine 2.1 NVIDIA-8.16.82 310.40.00.20f04".ĥ. "2008 model iMac, 24" 1920x1200 screen, Intel Core Duo 3.06 GHz processor, 1 TB HD, 4 GB DDR2 RAM" is about the best I can do here. I'm fairly sure this is the root of the problems with the launcher - I've seen it implied (though not outright stated) that OS X 10.9 is required to run the version 2.0 launcher. I was specifically told by the people in the Apple shop that this was the practical maximum for the model I've got - 1.9 onwards would slow it down progressively further until the latest version would make it run at the pace of an early 1980s Apple IIe.

If I remember rightly (because the Mac doesn't always fire up these days), it was 1.8.5. Also, the launcher version 2.0 never, ever worked, and I was stuck on the old one that kept nagging me to upgrade with the message at the top. I haven't tested the final release of 1.13 on it, because there's no point. In fact, I never managed to get a single 1.13 snapshot to run on the Mac - every single one of them crashed. Can you run Minecraft 1.13 on your Mac? (i.e. In May this year I replaced it with a five-year-old business PC that was given so many upgrades it might be considered (in xisumavoid's words, wasn't it?) a "hadron collider".ġ. I do have an old Mac, though it's in a fearful state at the moment, and it's so old as to be, likely as not, of little use in this survey.Īll I know is my Mac is a late 2008 model iMac with a 24" screen, bought in February 2009 and which served me well until the end of last year when it suddenly and inexplicably kept on restarting with no warning.
