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Macbook Games (What I've tried)

batman123 said:
Okay, can someone advise, a macbook 2GHz with 2GB RAM...what will this run.

I mean, i wanted to play Battlefields 2 on Windows (Bootcamp) or quake 3/doom3 would these games run smoothly? I am specially interested in CoD2, has anyone tried this with a 2GHz, 2GB RAM macbook??

Batman.:D
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Lucky for you, I tried Quake 3 and Battlefields 2! Quake 3 didnt run because of driver issues, its not a mac problem, this problem has been around for a while, and I tried Battlefields 2, it ran great, just a little bit of choppyness, so with 2 GB, it should be fine!
 
cool, thanks, so the low vram is nt that much of a problem then? SO what would a better video card/more vram do?

Do you mean quake 3 on xp (bootcamp) doesnt work? Has anybody played Quake 4 on a macbook?
 
biohazard6969 said:
unreal tournament 2004 runs like CRAP in OS X (yes i have the UB) even on the lowest settings it is still very choppy

just thought i'd add that one to the list
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What about XP?
 
Ragnaros said:
WoW runs just fine. I have all of the default settings and it works fantasticly. :D
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I'd hope so, your sig says your using a MBP 2.0!! :eek: Which is :cool: . These kind of threads really warm my heart I must say. Look ma, were gaming!!

HL2 on a $1000 mac portable?! Wicked wicked wicked.

I can't tell you how much i wan't to play with one of those MB's. They just look perfect for 90% of what I do. Anyway, back to posting your gaming results.

Has anyone tried Halo1:CS on the Windoze side? That would be great to see hauling butt.
 
xPismo said:
I'd hope so, your sig says your using a MBP 2.0!! :eek: Which is :cool: . These kind of threads really warm my heart I must say. Look ma, were gaming!!

HL2 on a $1000 mac portable?! Wicked wicked wicked.

I can't tell you how much i wan't to play with one of those MB's. They just look perfect for 90% of what I do. Anyway, back to posting your gaming results.

Has anyone tried Halo1:CS on the Windoze side? That would be great to see hauling butt.
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It would run better then Halo 1 for the Mac, which I tried. It runs perfectly on Mac, so expect better then perfect results on WIndows :p
 
hi ppl as a new mac users, i dont really get how can 64mb graphics card on a macbook ( i have a standard 1.83 model) can run counter strike source smoothly as mentioned by OP, when my five year old P42.8ghz PC with Geforce fx5200 runs CS source choppily

and

Why does HL2 run choppily but CS source runs fine? Arent they both the same engine? What settings/ resolution did u use on CS SOurce? what FPS?

I am deciding whether i need to upgrade to 2gb of ram or 1gb

also can someone please check how much ram is being used when running parallels + Limewire + Bittorent etc in windows?

Coz my macbook (1.83 base unit) lags so much with parallels running.
 
farqueue said:
I am deciding whether i need to upgrade to 2gb of ram or 1gb

also can someone please check how much ram is being used when running parallels + Limewire + Bittorent etc in windows?

Coz my macbook (1.83 base unit) lags so much with parallels running.
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If your running parallels, get 2gb. You need it.
Seriously I had 1gb in my macbook, allocating 512 to parallels, leaving 512 to osX. unfortuenetly 512 for osX is too little period.

So I get 2gb and everything flys. serious improvement. Had office 2003, and dvdclone ripping a dvd to an image, on XP, and itunes, iphoto, entourage in rosetta, and safari all running in OSX and still my page in page outs were excellent, with hardly any page outs compared to page ins,

Also with 2gb, I can run Ubuntu & XP in parallels as well as OS X
 
Well someone mentioned before that I should try Halo CE so i tried both. Both Halo Combat Evolved and Custom edition run great, better then OSX! But I get an error for unsupported hardware in the beginning, if you just click continue, everything is fine!
 
Virtualball,
Any news on how Star Wars Galaxies run on the Macbook. That is the deciding factor for me on whether to get a macbook or not. I don't mind even going with 2G ram if I know Star Wars Galaxies will run fine on the Macbook. Please help.
 
Does anyone know how Football Manager 2006 and StarCraft runs with 1 gig of ram?? (I'm thinking of buy those...)

Btw do anyone have a link to a good mac game site located within europe?
 
the Western zoo said:
Does anyone know how Football Manager 2006 and StarCraft runs with 1 gig of ram?? (I'm thinking of buy those...)

Btw do anyone have a link to a good mac game site located within europe?
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Except for the cinemans, Starcraft would work on 8 megs of video ram on an 8 year old card. It's all 2d. Don't worry about that. On my older mini, I don't even see the load screen anymore. :D
 
bobber205 said:
Except for the cinemans, Starcraft would work on 8 megs of video ram on an 8 year old card. It's all 2d. Don't worry about that. On my older mini, I don't even see the load screen anymore. :D
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Hmm... it's rather strange - there is like a stop sign on top of the icon of the game and it says it is not supported... is there anyway to bypass this??

edit: I should learn to try harder before asking, and then trying harder afterwards... just found the osx installer... sorry..
 
A request...

...Could you try out Star Wars: Empire of War. I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how that runs on a MB. Thanks.
 
ok i don't know about any of you but i can't get battlefield 2 to run on my black macbook. it will open and the screen will go black for a couple of seconds then it will just go back to windows. i also noticed that in the readme file it doesn't say that intel integrated graphics are supported....did i do somethign wrong i don't understand why it won't open
 
ive tried Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow on my MacBook in Bootcamp and it sucks. The menus are impossible, i didnt even try the gameplay. Is it something im doing wrong? Or does the game just hate integrated GPUs?
 
OK, after wondering why there were conflicting reports here and how to define "plays well" without knowing all the details, I set up boot camp yesterday.

My machine is a White MacBook 2GHz with 2GB RAM.

Couter-Strike Source: it was choppy at low resolution and not playable in an enjoyable way. Smoke grenades kill the framerate to a near stop.

Battlefield 2: Installed it and the latest patch - click to start, I see the splash screen then it flickers as if it's about to change resoluton and then nothing. Didn't work at all. However, if CS Source was bad, I don't see BF2 being any better.

As those are the only PC games I had to hand it was back to OSX.

Call of Duty 2 (Universal Binary): worked very well at 640 with almost no lag, except for maybe a hint in large areas with smoke effects. Upping the res to 800 or 1024 gets the framerate down and isn't playable.

I plan to try Football Manager 2006 tonight via Rosetta.
 
bobber205 said:
Except for the cinemans, Starcraft would work on 8 megs of video ram on an 8 year old card. It's all 2d. Don't worry about that. On my older mini, I don't even see the load screen anymore. :D
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You're sure starcraft actually have a load screen??. Never saw one that I can remember of. On a side note, as tiny the game might be it's almost impossible to run 2 copy of starcraft at the same time and make them play smooth...(anyone wanna try with a quad? lol..!)
 
Just got first two Universal Binary games: WoW and Civ IV

I'm not sure how to count framerates, but WoW runs completely smoothly with all of the default game settings, including being fullscreen at 1280x800. I haven't been to any high-traffic areas like Ironforge yet though (for now just the Tauren newbie areas).

Civ IV also runs completely smoothly. But again, I just started the game. The graphics are an amazing step up from Civ III, and they run completely smoothly with all default settings.

...so it looks like for RPG and strategy gaming, the MacBook does just fine, thankyouverymuch. In fact, I'd like to see how it does on some first-person shooters. Maybe I'll try Call of Duty 2 next. I'll bet even that runs fine with settings turned down somewhat...
 
lmalave said:
In fact, I'd like to see how it does on some first-person shooters. Maybe I'll try Call of Duty 2 next. I'll bet even that runs fine with settings turned down somewhat...
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spriter said:
Call of Duty 2 (Universal Binary): worked very well at 640 with almost no lag, except for maybe a hint in large areas with smoke effects. Upping the res to 800 or 1024 gets the framerate down and isn't playable.
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It works fine :) As long as it's on the default / auto detect settings where it's 640. Very smooth and completely playable. Like I said, only if you up the res and get in large and smokey areas do you get framerate issues.
 
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