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Black Ops On your mac... Whos getting It?
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I'm thinking of getting Black Ops...but I can't even play MW2 online without a little lag. I turned it down to 1024 by 768, all settings low. It still feels choppy and other people who are playing smooth kill me all the time. I have a 2010 2.93 GHz iMac...confused since it should be perfect based on specs.
Black ops is a lot heavier than MW2 and you often get lags during MP, sometimes I get 1-2 sec lookups (no matter the patches to try to address this). My quadcore cpu at 4ghz reaches 60% plus utilization on all cores when I play, which is ridiculous considering how the game is nothing special graphically or other. I don't think I have ever seen this on any other game, which just shows how badly its coded.
I enjoy playing it (to some degree) and having dedicated servers again, but really MP is even more of a joke than MW2, some kill cams are hilarious in their nonsense and a it's a lot about spraying bullets from the hip and emptying a whole clip to kill opponents.
Basically Black ops feels and plays like COD4 MP (which I did not like) whereas MW2 played and felt like MW1.
I heard news from activision. infinity ward was reconstructed. they have developed MW3 for next year. I can't wait to buy it. I think that infinity ward knows how to make FPS smoothly. Treyarch? get the hell out, and makes something different. don't make any call of duty game, please.
I just purchased Black Ops from the MICROSOFT store.. yuck. But good story behind it. I happen to live near the Microsoft Store Mission Viejo CA. I happened to be in the mall the day it opened (I had no idea) and got a $25 gift card that I have never used.
My two sons use Windows to play games on; one has XP and one has Vista. I decided to buy them Windows 7 (family pack, 3 licenses for $149). I had my gift card so $125 for the three. Not bad, I can bootcamp my MBP. Anyway, I found a coupon for $50 off any purchase of $200 or more at the MS store. Black Ops was $59, pushing my total to $210. I ended up paying just $10 for Black Ops.
But let me tell you how screwed up the MS store is. I was there about an hour with my two kids. I was walking around playing with the Windows Phones; see how they are. NONE OF THEM WORKED! The internet wasn't working, and none of the sales reps could get it to work. I couldn't do maps, or email, or web, or anything else. The reps worked for 20 minutes before giving up trying to get the phones to wake up -- they said that this is very common. Who's going to buy a phone like this when nothing is working? Although the reps insisted it would work when you got it home.
The Kenect demonstration needed someone standing there all the time helping people set it up and to solve problems. Most of the time they got it working, but it took a while.
It turns out that there is only ONE checkout register in the entire store! If there is any delay, everyone waits.
As I mentioned I had a gift card from opening day. It wouldn't register in the system. But according to the manage, it's a known problem. It took them over a half hour to check me out! I feel bad for the poor people behind me who had to wait this entire time. For me, it didn't matter, I was waiting for my wife anyway, she was shopping and the kids were playing Raze on the machines.
I walk out of there, frustrated and saddened by the state of the store; it really isn't well thought out. My sons kept complaining about glitches with the machines and how things were just not right. (I don't know, I wasn't playing with them)
In the end we went to the Apple store a few doors down and spent another half hour there playing PvZ and other demos on the iPads. I was lusting over a 27" iMac but I want to wait for the next gen processors next year. I also want an iPad, but can't find a good use for it. But I'll get one eventually.
My two sons use Windows to play games on; one has XP and one has Vista. I decided to buy them Windows 7 (family pack, 3 licenses for $149). I had my gift card so $125 for the three. Not bad, I can bootcamp my MBP. Anyway, I found a coupon for $50 off any purchase of $200 or more at the MS store. Black Ops was $59, pushing my total to $210. I ended up paying just $10 for Black Ops.
But let me tell you how screwed up the MS store is. I was there about an hour with my two kids. I was walking around playing with the Windows Phones; see how they are. NONE OF THEM WORKED! The internet wasn't working, and none of the sales reps could get it to work. I couldn't do maps, or email, or web, or anything else. The reps worked for 20 minutes before giving up trying to get the phones to wake up -- they said that this is very common. Who's going to buy a phone like this when nothing is working? Although the reps insisted it would work when you got it home.
The Kenect demonstration needed someone standing there all the time helping people set it up and to solve problems. Most of the time they got it working, but it took a while.
It turns out that there is only ONE checkout register in the entire store! If there is any delay, everyone waits.
As I mentioned I had a gift card from opening day. It wouldn't register in the system. But according to the manage, it's a known problem. It took them over a half hour to check me out! I feel bad for the poor people behind me who had to wait this entire time. For me, it didn't matter, I was waiting for my wife anyway, she was shopping and the kids were playing Raze on the machines.
I walk out of there, frustrated and saddened by the state of the store; it really isn't well thought out. My sons kept complaining about glitches with the machines and how things were just not right. (I don't know, I wasn't playing with them)
In the end we went to the Apple store a few doors down and spent another half hour there playing PvZ and other demos on the iPads. I was lusting over a 27" iMac but I want to wait for the next gen processors next year. I also want an iPad, but can't find a good use for it. But I'll get one eventually.
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hey i really need help here, i bought this for pc like you would for a mac but there .exe files that i have to use crossover for but its not workin so well. is there actually a mac version to this because i have mac pro.thanks for any help
hey i really need help here, i bought this for pc like you would for a mac but there .exe files that i have to use crossover for but its not workin so well. is there actually a mac version to this because i have mac pro.thanks for any help
Hi,
You need to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3986
Then it runs just like a PC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4GreXD04uY
Good luck! It's a great game and superb at 2560 x 1440!