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I want to play "Star Wars: The Old Republic" on my Mac?

I'm playing SWTOR on my Mac Mini C2D 2.0Ghz with 9400m. I'm running WinXP 32bit on a 160GB partition. Right after launch, at 1280x800 with all pretties off, I was getting 6-10 fps. I started researching a new mac at that point.

After the latest patch, performance improved dramatically. I now run 1920x1200 with all pretties off and get 15-20fps. It's now playable. It isn't great, but it's much better than it was at launch. Perhaps the performance will improve even more as time goes on and bugs get worked out?
 
Help!!!

I want to play SWTOR also but I am not willing to sink a lot of money into a PC. I love my mac and would like to run it off this. Can anyone tell me if my setup is strong enough to run SWTOR.

IMAC Intel Core I3 3.06 GHZ. 4g ram and 500 g hardrive. ATI Radeon HD4670 graphic card.

Could I run bootcamp and install windows 7 sp3 and run it?
 
cyc46 said:
I want to play SWTOR also but I am not willing to sink a lot of money into a PC. I love my mac and would like to run it off this. Can anyone tell me if my setup is strong enough to run SWTOR.

IMAC Intel Core I3 3.06 GHZ. 4g ram and 500 g hardrive. ATI Radeon HD4670 graphic card.

Could I run bootcamp and install windows 7 sp3 and run it?
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It'll be rough. SWTOR is very CPU intensive. The memory is probably ok. You may have to crank the resolution way down though.
 
cyc46 said:
I want to play SWTOR also but I am not willing to sink a lot of money into a PC. I love my mac and would like to run it off this. Can anyone tell me if my setup is strong enough to run SWTOR.

IMAC Intel Core I3 3.06 GHZ. 4g ram and 500 g hardrive. ATI Radeon HD4670 graphic card.

Could I run bootcamp and install windows 7 sp3 and run it?
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You may have to experiment with the graphics settings, but there is no reason why you couldn't play it pretty easily. I'm running it adequately on a 2009 Mac Mini. You can definitely run it on your iMac without too much trouble.
 
Error 7

I'm trying to run SWTOR on my mac using boot camp. I partitioned 250 GB for Windows 7. My iMac's specs are: Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5. Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3. Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB. My total memory is 1TB. I assumed that this was enough to run SWTOR and bought the game. Now when I try and run it, it gives me an error message saying the game is incompatible with my computer. On the windows side, it says my video card memory is 16MB and the rating for gaming is the lowest at 1.0. Any ideas on how to fix this?
 
cl14 said:
I'm trying to run SWTOR on my mac using boot camp. I partitioned 250 GB for Windows 7. My iMac's specs are: Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5. Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3. Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB. My total memory is 1TB. I assumed that this was enough to run SWTOR and bought the game. Now when I try and run it, it gives me an error message saying the game is incompatible with my computer. On the windows side, it says my video card memory is 16MB and the rating for gaming is the lowest at 1.0. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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your machine can run it fine in Windows. Not sure what you mean with "incompatible" unless you were trying to use it in OSX.. its a Windows only program.

What is probably wrong with your Windows install in Bootcamp is that you never installed your graphics drivers, so its using default barely functional graphics capabilities. Make sure you've installed Apple's Bootcamp software pack, and also updated your graphics drivers.
 
doh123 said:
your machine can run it fine in Windows. Not sure what you mean with "incompatible" unless you were trying to use it in OSX.. its a Windows only program.

What is probably wrong with your Windows install in Bootcamp is that you never installed your graphics drivers, so its using default barely functional graphics capabilities. Make sure you've installed Apple's Bootcamp software pack, and also updated your graphics drivers.
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If I download the Bootcamp software pack, will the problem sort itself out, or do I have to re-install Windows?
 
cl14 said:
If I download the Bootcamp software pack, will the problem sort itself out, or do I have to re-install Windows?
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you just need to install the software pack for all the drivers... then for the best graphics performance, I'd suggest updating the Graphics drivers separately.
 
Help with Launcher

I'm sorry if this has been adressed...

I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, 2.26 Intel Core Duo, NVidia Geoforce 256MB card, 8 GB or Ram, and a 110 GB partition with bootcamp. I've loaded up Windows 7, and have updated all the video drivers.

So...Bought the game and when I start it, it gets stuck updating the launcher. I've looked on other forums and have done the following:
1) changed the language
2) Paused the download and re-started it
3) Re-installed the whole thing
4) run the Launcher fix software

None of this works!

Any thoughts? Going crazy here...thanks
 
coco5150 said:
I'm sorry if this has been adressed...

I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, 2.26 Intel Core Duo, NVidia Geoforce 256MB card, 8 GB or Ram, and a 110 GB partition with bootcamp. I've loaded up Windows 7, and have updated all the video drivers.

So...Bought the game and when I start it, it gets stuck updating the launcher. I've looked on other forums and have done the following:
1) changed the language
2) Paused the download and re-started it
3) Re-installed the whole thing
4) run the Launcher fix software

None of this works!

Any thoughts? Going crazy here...thanks
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Try it a couple of times. When I was playing SWTOR, I saw what appeared to be the launcher update hanging. I've also seen when downloading an update hangs. I've found that pausing/restarting the update or even quitting out of game and restarting helped.
 
New to this

I have a macbook pro mid 2009

Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

i was wondering if i would be able to play SWTOR in bootcamp. i have windows 7 64 bit and want to upgrade 4GB or 6GB. any help would be greatly appreciated! if fps would be bad, is there anything i could do to improve it. im not tech savvy but can follow your directions. i remember reading that GeForce 9400M might be a problem... again i thank you all for your help!
 
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It will not run natively under OS X so no sale
 
I have SWTOR installed on my 2011 MacBook Air - i7 256GB SSD version. I have a Win7 64bit pro bootcamp partition - 60GB. SWTOR plays okay with graphics on minimum settings. The Air does get pretty warm and the fans run at 6000 rpm continuously. However, I have played it for a couple hours straight with no real issues. I also use an external mouse when I play... the track pad is just NOT good for games like this.

Admittedly, I normally paly on a pretty souped up PC on a 26" monitor, but when I travel and need my Jedi fix, the Air does a good enough job!
 
One of the changes in the latest patch allowed textures to be turned down to 'very low' instead of low or high. Knocking this setting down to 'very low' allowed my mini (early 2009, 9400m) to run the game at 1920x1200 at 30-40 fps. It's finally smooth.

The suck thing is, they patched it right after I ordered my 2011 mini w/6630m. Figures.
 
I want to know if it will run on my MAC

I was wondering iff it could run on My MBA

1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Windows 7 Professinol
NVIDIA GeForce 320M

Just wanting to know iff i could be able to run SWTOR aleast on low
 
I run SWTOR smoothly at 1920x1200 with low graphic settings on my 2007 24" iMac. I'm using Bootcamp with XP Pro.

I have a problem with the graphics though.
Looks like I am playing a widescreen movie on an old 4/3 TV. The characters look flatty.
I've tried different resolution with no success ranging from 1280*1024 to 1440*1050.

There is no way I can find a ATI 2600HD driver better than the 2009 one I have.

Anyone has a clue for this?

btw: I' m running LOTRO and Lineage 2 no problem at 1920x1200.

Thx ya all
 
Bootcamp is definitely the way to go for maximum speed and compatibility. However, I recently tried Star Trek Online using a Wineskin wrapper which uses the open source WINE software, and it runs really well.

Instead of emulating a machine that Windows can run upon, WINE instead provides implementations for the various Windows APIs that .exe files use. This means that it can be faster than emulation, though there is still a definite performance trade-off (not much though), and it's not going to run everything.

However, using Wineskin it can be very easy to package a Windows program in a manner similar to a Mac app, so it can be a very convenient way to run Windows programs without Bootcamp.

I'd definitely recommend giving it a go at least.
 
haravikk said:
Instead of emulating a machine that Windows can run upon, WINE instead provides implementations for the various Windows APIs that .exe files use. This means that it can be faster than emulation, though there is still a definite performance trade-off (not much though), and it's not going to run everything.
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its still not running SWTOR well, even with the experimental patches. STO does run decently enough. The experimental patches for SWTOR do fix some of the networking issues, but it doesn't fix them properly enough and causes other issues, mainly with speed. Its just going to be more time before anything Wine based is viable... until someone figures out all the issues and gets them fixed.

Most of the performance loss comes from Direct3D games having to be handled in OpenGL on the fly... that extra translation layer can slow down graphics a minor amount.. up to being quite a bit, depending on the game.
 
Nothing seems worse than trying to use Windows then add all these other issues and being frustrated while playing your game. Or being worried that each new patch will break your implementation of a game. If you are going to play Windows games, the Bootcamp route seems to be the least painful, most satisfying method. :)
 
Huntn said:
Nothing seems worse than trying to use Windows then add all these other issues and being frustrated while playing your game. Or being worried that each new patch will break your implementation of a game. If you are going to play Windows games, the Bootcamp route seems to be the least painful, most satisfying method. :)
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depending on the user... yes, it can be the easiest. I have tons of games i run through Wineskin, and its super easy for me, but I'm not a normal user. Its less of a headache for people wanting to play single player offline games though since you aren't forced to update, and other people like over at portingteam.com or paulthetall.com have already done the hard work for you on getting specific games working.
 
doh123 said:
Most of the performance loss comes from Direct3D games having to be handled in OpenGL on the fly... that extra translation layer can slow down graphics a minor amount.. up to being quite a bit, depending on the game.
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That's an issue that also affects emulation (VMWare Fusion and Parallels) as well though surely? In my experience WINE apps, especially games, perform better than Fusion or Parallels, usually run better as well.

Of course that's all dependent on there being no weird bugs, so it's a shame to hear that SWTOR won't run well in WINE yet, as it's by far my preferred method of running games :)
 
haravikk said:
That's an issue that also affects emulation (VMWare Fusion and Parallels) as well though surely? In my experience WINE apps, especially games, perform better than Fusion or Parallels, usually run better as well.

Of course that's all dependent on there being no weird bugs, so it's a shame to hear that SWTOR won't run well in WINE yet, as it's by far my preferred method of running games :)
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VMWare and Parallels both use Wine code for Direct3D->OpenGL too, so yes they are affected. They also have the overhead of emulating an entire computer and running a whole other OS. They have less compatibility problems but a much bigger performance hit.
 
I have IMAC Intel Core I3 3.06 GHZ. 4g ram and 500 g hardrive. ATI Radeon HD4670 graphic card. And I am playing SWTOR, ofcourse you know because of the bad engine its not as flawless as it should but still its fine for Mac.
 
I have a 2010 i7 iMac with 4GB (although probably going to increase that to 8GB or 12GB soon) and an HD 5750. I've been playing SWTOR in bootcamp since launch and its been running fine but thinking of trying it out in a VM soon.

From glancing through the topic, sounds like Parallels should work (I don't mind trying the VM for a few other older games and I think the Wine skin needs to be changed with each TOR update? Probably misread something somewhere, as I haven't looked into it that much since I'm aiming for a VM anyway).

I've been trying to read through the manuals, but just curious if I should have Parallels run Windows from the Boot Camp partition or import it into Parallels? I was thinking of importing, keeping the Parallels version separate from Bootcamp just in case, but then how much space would that require? I still have space on my hard drive, but not quite enough for another partition the same size as my current Bootcamp partition (though I could just delete some stuff or move old stuff to an external HD). Also how many cores (or CPU power) would Windows 7 and SWTOR require? I think my i7 is a quadcore, although it might count as eight cores with four real and four virtual cores so not sure how much would be allocated (I would probably try not to have too many mac applications running at the same time anyway). I think Paralllels' site offers a free trial so I'll try that out soon but just reading up first.
 
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