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Left 4 Dead

Johnny1490 said:
I have the 13 inch white macbook 2.4 ghz 160 hard drive.

is there anyway i can play left 4 dead?

i know it says you need 256mb video card
i only have 144 mb video card

any possible way?
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I don't think you MacBook even with the Santa Rosa X3100 chipset has a chance of running this game. I think L4D uses Shaders v3 and a X3100 chipset MacBook can barely handle a game as tame as Prenumbra Overture (shaders 2). There is supposed to be a PC demo floating around somewhere, but I've not seen it. That would be your best bet for testing.
 
Just installed this on a Boot Camped Vista partition on my 2.5 MBP and I'm getting poor results. Every couple minutes or so the game freezes up and loops for about 20 seconds. I don't know if this is the MBP not being able to handle the graphics or if it's something else.

Anyone else playing this smoothly on a new MBP with Vista? If so, what are your in game settings?
 
"Bla-snarf-clump-burp", I hate that sound!! :D (It's a Boomer, a bloated infected mob who sounds like he has a severe sinus infection and blows up when snot, I mean shot. ;)) Just finished the first two chapters of L4D on the 360. This game is kick ass coop! The top of Mercy Hospital is a real rush. If you like survival shooters you need to play this.

It feels very much like Half Life 2 and it's excellent.
 
The source engine is very easy on both processors... I think anyone with errors is running the newer engine file... do a google search for the older engine (a file to dump into the "bin" folder) that removes multiprocessing and stops the crashes. If I can find the link I'll post it.
 
The game includes 4 campaigns each made up of about 4 chapters. I really like that at the start of each chapter, the game puts up something that looks like a movie poster with all the stars, the 4 people in your group and uses players names. At the end of each chapter a long list of statistics rolls by, most kills, most headshots, least damage, most tank damage, most witch damage (avoid witches), etc. Amazingl, you as an individual kill hundreds of infected in each chapter and by the end of a campaign you've killed thousands.

My only critique of the game is that there are certain events that trigger "rushes", when you are rushed by large groups of infected. Sometimes it appears like they come out of nowhere, but heck, it's still fun. :)

Mercy Hospital Campaign- In the sewer I had a hard time finding the way out.

Spoiler: Once you find the room with ammo, follow the tunnel in the room (the tunnel splits, but apparently either way works), when you pop out into the general sewer, turn right and look for a ladder that says to Mercy Hospital. I don't know why it was so hard to find...
 
I just saw an advertisement (in Indianapolis, In) for Left 4 Dead at Circuit City for $15 off. Don't know if it was for the 360 or PC version. Might be worth a call.
 
This weekend we notched up the difficulty to *standback*--> advanced!!. What I noticed is that rushes come more frequently, specialized infected (smoker, boomer), etc appear more frequently. Fortunately they are no harder to kill. At least the run of the mill zombies still fall quickly with head shots and even not.
 
I finally bought this game. It was only $39 at Target. Anyways, I'm looking forward to this coming weekend, so that I can play it with friends.

I started the game on expert and it's noticeably harder than the demo was on the same difficulty setting.
 
JackAxe said:
I finally bought this game. It was only $39 at Target. Anyways, I'm looking forward to this coming weekend, so that I can play it with friends.

I started the game on expert and it's noticeably harder than the demo was on the same difficulty setting.
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Are you playing this on PC or 360? I really don't like paying MS to subscribe to their 360 online service so I might have incentive to purchase the PC version and play there (if it is free). I think this game would be super playing with keyboard and mouse although I find for most situations that control with the 360 controller to be acceptable for coop. I've been doing 2 player coop. The critiques about playing with AI team members is that you can't give them orders when it comes to setting up ambushes and sometimes they do their own thing when they should be getting up in a hard to reach, limited access, high place. At the end of the last campaign at the farm house, foolishly I tried to save one of them, got swarmed, and my partner finally said screw it and hit the button to close the door of the APC...

So how long before they add more solo content? The first time through, 4 scenarios seems long enough but the second time it feels much shorter.

Maybe because it was all new then, but "No Mercy" on the top of Mercy Hospital was the best of the scenarios imo.

* Avoid Witches if possible- check.
* For Tanks- Run like hell and evade while shooting every chance you get- check. ;)
 
This game is absolutely awesome well i think it is anyway. I just finished that last single player map last night. Has a bit of halflife 2 in it which is cool. I like the fact you can shoot of limbs and there heads explode when you headshot em.

I was very cautions about playing this game first cause i am not a fan of zombies in games, which is why i haven't played doom3 again! But i kind of got used to it.

Geez having this game in surround sound is unbelievable. I had some holy **** moments a few times specially with that bloody witch she will keep chasing you too in one section i shot her, she ended up trying to get on top of this roof i was on and did until i shot her gob. You know when she is around cause the music gets all creepy. The fact that the zombies run after you, climb on objects to get to you is awesome too.

Nice cache of weapons that auto shotgun, pure ownage with that one
 
Huntn said:
Are you playing this on PC or 360? I really don't like paying MS to subscribe to their 360 online service so I might have incentive to purchase the PC version and play there (if it is free). I think this game would be super playing with keyboard and mouse although I find for most situations that control with the 360 controller to be acceptable for coop. I've been doing 2 player coop. The critiques about playing with AI team members is that you can't give them orders when it comes to setting up ambushes and sometimes they do their own thing when they should be getting up in a hard to reach, limited access, high place. At the end of the last campaign at the farm house, foolishly I tried to save one of them, got swarmed, and my partner finally said screw it and hit the button to close the door of the APC...

So how long before they add more solo content? The first time through, 4 scenarios seems long enough but the second time it feels much shorter.

Maybe because it was all new then, but "No Mercy" on the top of Mercy Hospital was the best of the scenarios imo.

* Avoid Witches if possible- check.
* For Tanks- Run like hell and evade while shooting every chance you get- check. ;)
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I'm playing on my PC. I'm a curmudgeon when it comes to game pads and FPS, :eek: I bought a Logitech G9 on sale for $79 las week -- I'm a NERD -- and a Belkin n52te the other month. Both of these were worth their cost and have really helped me out -- the G9 especially helps out with Mass Effect and its manual override locks.

I won't be playing this one online until this weekend, because my internet connection is unreliable for only games. *grumbles* Prior to moving to where I am now, I gamed online quite a bit, but with Time Warner(bastards), they first throttle my connection, then they clamp it. This of course boots me from any online gaming service. So I have no choice to go to my friend's place to play -- which I like doing anyways, so no big deal.

There will probably be too many for co-op -- which is why I really wanted this game, so I'm hoping there's enough copies around to play zombie vs human. :)

No idea on the solo content, but probably about 6 months is my guess?

I ran into a Witch in the demo and got my arse handed to me. :)

The tank is the big guy in the video right?
 
JackAxe said:
I'm playing on my PC. I'm a curmudgeon when it comes to game pads and FPS, :eek: I bought a Logitech G9 on sale for $79 las week -- I'm a NERD -- and a Belkin n52te the other month. Both of these were worth their cost and have really helped me out -- the G9 especially helps out with Mass Effect and its manual override locks.
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I love the N52.

I won't be playing this one online until this weekend, because my internet connection is unreliable for only games. *grumbles* Prior to moving to where I am now, I gamed online quite a bit, but with Time Warner(bastards), they first throttle my connection, then they clamp it. This of course boots me from any online gaming service. So I have no choice to go to my friend's place to play -- which I like doing anyways, so no big deal.
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What? I've not heard of this but it sounds like BS (not what your saying, what TW is doing).

There will probably be too many for co-op -- which is why I really wanted this game, so I'm hoping there's enough copies around to play zombie vs human. :)

No idea on the solo content, but probably about 6 months is my guess?

I ran into a Witch in the demo and got my arse handed to me. :)

The tank is the big guy in the video right?
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The witch comes after whoever startles her. You can be saved by teammates, but only after you've gotten the s*** kicked out of you. ;) Yeah, the big guy, the tank looks like a deformed Hulk. If all 4 team mates are shooting him, he goes down fast enough.
 
My friend has Time Warner north -- about 30 miles -- from where I live and his connection is fine, so it's something in this neighborhood.

Yeah, it helps. It's much easer to situate than a keyboard. :) That new Logitech one looks good. If it has an analog stick, I'll be interested in getting one, but I'd have to feel it first, because the Belkin is great to use for extended periods of time.

Anyways, this game is so much fun and one of many I'm really liking right now.
 
sorry for bumping an old thread but..I've been thinking to pick this game up..
I'm running the white mb

MacBook Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz
4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor using 144MB
Leopard 10.5.6
think is the Sanata Rosa chip

I really hope it could run it....
 
DARKiLLUSiON said:
sorry for bumping an old thread but..I've been thinking to pick this game up..
I'm running the white mb

MacBook Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz
4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor using 144MB
Leopard 10.5.6
think is the Sanata Rosa chip

I really hope it could run it....
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I wouldn't hold my breath, the GMA is not your friend in this case... Sorry bro, I honestly think it would be a waste of your money if you bought this game for this system.
 
Johnny1490 said:
I have the 13 inch white macbook 2.4 ghz 160 hard drive.

is there anyway i can play left 4 dead?

i know it says you need 256mb video card
i only have 144 mb video card

any possible way?
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The guy above is correct. You'll just get a "slide show" when zombies come on screen. I've done a bit of research in hopes of the x3100 running L4D. YOu can check youtube vids of it not running well at on via bootcamp and some google searches of "Left 4 Dead" x3100
 
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