Aluminum macbook Playing Through Crossfire

[mynameisadam]

recently, i downloaded and played through cross fire such as CS:S and Company of Heroes.

i also played WoW, Warcraft 3 and many blizzard titles.

the problem is i baught through steam Company of heroes, i thought because CS:S ran so great through highest settings i thought it would be the same for company of heroes.

i was wrong. The Game played horribly, i couldnt see my own soldiers hp i had no bottom half of the screen, i couldnt even use and any moves, or see icons but the terrain and the units on it even than i could see black spots where the video card couldnt render. my macbook is the new unibody with 2.4 ghz and 4gb ram anyway to fix this? i tried lowering settings and etc but didnt help and i know it isnt something like too little GPU. so now i gotta go buy vista to play this >: (.

BTW can anyone tell me what OpenGL is? iv been reading it up and cant really get my head around it on how to use or where to even download or if its even preinstalled : S

 

[0098386]

No, you don't have to buy Vista. Just get XP. And why would you think that CoH would play like CS:S CS:S is built on the oldest of the Source engines from 2003ish.

Big games+crossover don't mix I'm afraid. To get the best performance you'll be needing XP.

 

[killasapo]

No, you don't have to buy Vista. Just get XP. And why would you think that CoH would play like CS:S CS:S is built on the oldest of the Source engines from 2003ish.

Big games+crossover don't mix I'm afraid. To get the best performance you'll be needing XP.

agreed XP for the win (unless of course you wanna play halo 2 then by all means install Vista lol)

CrossOver (not CrossFire Lmao i had to point that out) is always behind the curve

I've also noticed that if you look at the wine project's page there's a couple of games on there that crossover doesn't support just yet so i guess that's a nice way of getting a lil gimp's of the future

http://appdb.winehq.org/index.php

 

[mynameisadam]

No, you don't have to buy Vista. Just get XP. And why would you think that CoH would play like CS:S CS:S is built on the oldest of the Source engines from 2003ish.

Big games+crossover don't mix I'm afraid. To get the best performance you'll be needing XP.

but wouldnt vista be greater for direct x10 :S?

 

[0098386]

No, for one Vista will pinch performance slightly and the benefits of DX10 are minor.

Windows 7 is what Vista should have been. DX11 is what DX10 should have been.

 

[TSE]

Get either XP or Vista, it doesn't matter, whatever comes out cheaper, because in about a year or two, you are going to want to upgrade to Windows 7 anyways. Vista is about the same as XP when it comes to performance as long as you have the right system for it, which you do. XP will only give you 1 or 2 more frames per second compared to Vista.

If you get Vista, turn off Aero, turn on the classic UI, and turn off the dashboard. Then it is basically the same as XP.

 

[petermcphee]

I play TF2, HL2 and Portal through CrossOver without issues, but it's probably because these games are a hell of a lot older than the graphics-intensive games you're trying to play.

 

[0098386]

Then it is basically the same as XP.

Except with horrific legacy support.

 

[eXan]

but wouldnt vista be greater for direct x10 :S?

Running games in DX10 mode on GeForce 9400M will give you even worse performance than you're currently experiencing.