Blizzard Mac vs Windows

[CylonGlitch]

the only flaw in your argument is that Mac's are weak game computers.

Not arguing anything here, just stating how to develop cross platform / API applications. Sure, if you have a much more powerful engine under the hood it will be very different response, but my comments refer to all things being created equal. Apple's machines have gotten much better for gaming, but they do often push the limits. The 27" iMacs are awesome machines and monitors, but the video card can't keep up with it because of the resolution. Dumb down the resolution and you'll get about the same performance out of it as you do on a Windows machine of the same resolution, video card, processor.

WoW is a great example of this. If you run it in a window under both Windows and OSX the performance is very similar. Sure some things will be better on one then the other; but the overall performance is very much the same. Why, because the engine was optimized and designed to work the same way under both systems.

 

[hippo206]

World of Warcraft is definitely faster in Bootcamp (win xp) than in OS X (10.6.2).

I do play in OS X because it's very playable on my Macbook Pro anyways

This is not true for me.

I went through the troubles of ordering XP (this was during vista launch, so MS was trying to filter out XP) and installing it along with WoW because everyone was saying the performance gains were phenomenal. Needless to say, I was disappointed to see that the performance was the same, especially where it counts such as raids/wintergrasp.

The only time this has ever been true to me, is right after certain patches. Seems like blizzard aims patches at the PC ppl first, then fix the mac people after a couple days/weeks. So often right after patches I get better performance in XP, but once hotfixes come up the Mac OS seems to be the same.

 

[JoeSixPack]

Actually, every Mac owner should BUY a copy of Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft and Diablo 2 just to support Blizzard; they are one of the few developers who really support the Mac platform.

Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2 for Mac, gotta buy them as well. Even if you don't play them, support Blizzard.

Great idea, Warcraft 2 was also pretty good for its day. On W2 and W3 don't forget to click rapidly on each unit

 

[ClamsJager]

i personally prefer to play WOW on my MBP as it runs smoother than my purpose built gaming rig (built about 2 years ago) the rig has great top end products of the time that are all up to date driver wise but the mac still blows it out of the water for playability.