Thankfully, the cultural phenomenon known as Fortnite is on darn near every bit of gaming hardware, including the Mac, and its entirely possible to have a good time with it.

Heres everything you need to consider before playing Fortnite on Mac.

Once youve downloaded the launcher, find Fortnite in the store tab and click Play Free.

Its usually best to download game files into your program files folder.

Also, it should be on by default, but make sure you opt into auto-updates so youre not waiting for the latest patch to finish downloading.

When its finished, simply press launch and youll open up Fortnite.

Thankfully, the minimum requirements needed to run Fortnite arent extravagant, so those of you with budget Macs will most likely be OK.

Check if your Mac supports Metal here.

Note: If youve updated your Mac at all in the past year or two, you should most likely already have Metal on it.).

If you want to have the ideal Fortnite experience, youll want to aim for these recommended specs below.

If you only have a MacBook, it needs to be a relatively recent model to keep up with the needs of Fortnite.

The last couple iterations have admittedly improved their performance when it comes to games.

Obviously, the game may look like warmed over dirt to start with.

If your Mac is handling everything fine, slowly advance your way up the ladder from low to medium to high, then ultra until you notice your Macs performance is starting to even slightly suffer.

Youll want a minimum of 30 FPS, but ideally, youll want around 60 FPS.

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