OS X Black Ops Mac on ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB

[AppleDev879]

I initially planned to purchase Black Ops for Mac from the Mac App Store for my late 2009 iMac. I was thinking I'd then buy GameCompanion and connect an Xbox 360 controller to my computer, effectively making it an Xbox. Unfortunately, I just checked the machine's specs, only to find that I have 256 MB of video RAM instead of the recommended 512 MB.

The exact card is the ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB. If I did purchase the game, would I notice a severe amount of dropped frames, making gameplay really frustrating? If so, are there quality settings in the game I could turn down? Also, could the use of a wireless controller create additional lag? Any advice appreciated.

 

[Nuttydev]

I have the same video card and had a free weekend for BO on Windows a while ago and it ran perfectly fine on high/medium with 40-60+ fps at 1080p. Not sure how it'd be on OS X though, as games usually don't run as well as in Windows.

 

[AppleDev879]

Yeah, strangely enough the PC version only requires 256 MB of video RAM, but the Mac version requires 512 MB. Do you think I could run the PC version off Parallels with better results?

 

[eXan]

No, virtual machine would be even worse =)

 

[AppleDev879]

Well shall I just consider myself out of luck, or do you think the gameplay would be smooth enough?

 

[eXan]

Turn everything to lowest possible, then move up step by step to try and balance graphics quality and performance.

 

[AppleDev879]

Turn everything to lowest possible, then move up step by step to try and balance graphics quality and performance.[/QUOTE

Haha I would, problem is I haven't bought the game yet. I'm really hesitant to spend $50 on a game that might not even run. So I'm just trying to see if anyone has attempted to run the game with this configuration.

 

[eXan]

Sorry, misread your post ;;

You could search for videos on Youtube, etc on how a particular game runs on a particular Mac, I did that when I was in doubt about UT3.

I'd tell you how it runs on my, admittedly, newer iMac, but the game requires 10.8 for some reason