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Macbook Games (What I've tried)

Command & Conquer Zero Hour

Anyone tried this game? I installed it on my core duo mini, and boy-oh-boy did it suck.

It ran fine - perfectly playable anyway - when I had bootcamp/XP installed
 
battlefield 2 doesnt work... and i have 2gigs of ram, it just goes to a black screen and back to desktop.;)
 
Ringo said:
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..!)
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This I don't quite understand! why would you want to run two copies simultaniously? :)

btw I just tried the demo of call of duty 2 and I ran great... there was a little lag when I uped the resolution though, but it was still playable...
 
I'll share some of my experiences:

Tropico runs great (I know, old school)
Civ 3 runs great
Sim City 4 Rush Hour runs OK (slow and not very snappy -- is this just the game? Any suggestions on how to make this actually run faster?)

And I've heard Civ 4 plays better on MacBooks then a lot of other systems. Apparently there are a lot of driver issues with graphics cards going on with 10.4.7 and Civ 4, and since MacBook has integrated graphics... it seems to run a lot better than MB Pro's or G5 towers! Astounding.

I'm on a MacBook 2 GHZ with 1.25 GB of RAM (soon to be 2 GB).

Thanks,
Alec
 
Hmm... has anyone tried A) The Sims 2 on OS X (Universal) or B) tried it on parallels... the idea of dual-booting to play a game just pisses me off :).
 
Dillon-K said:
Hmm... has anyone tried A) The Sims 2 on OS X (Universal) or B) tried it on parallels... the idea of dual-booting to play a game just pisses me off :).
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Unless you're system it amazing, you'll always get better results w/ Dual Booting. No emulation.
 
What about a 1.83 Ghz Duo, 1 gb ram macbook non-pro? What do you think performance will be like? Should I buy another 2 gigs of ram? Whats the max ram the macbook non-pro can have?
 
I have a BlackBook with 2 gigs of RAM. Civilization runs very choppy (even with the lowest settings) and WoW runs fine. I'm trying to dl Call of Duty 2 now.
 
Zero Hour works excellently in Windows XP via dual-booting. This is with 512 Mb of RAM, too.
 
Mackilroy said:
Zero Hour works excellently in Windows XP via dual-booting. This is with 512 Mb of RAM, too.
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yeah, when I had bootcamp installed and XP installed, it ran fine. Dont really want to buy a windoze licence to run a game tho.
 
We seriously need a thread or website that SAY which games run well.

Like this:

MBP with 1 GB of RAM and 2 GHz and is set in high setting in bootcamp, etc. and what games ran well.

MB with 1.5 GB of RAM and 2 GHz and blah blah blah

iMac with 512 MB of RAM and 2 GHz and blah blah blah and so on.

It would be useful if they provide like this:

MBP with 512 MB, 1 GB, 1.5 GB and 2 GB.
MB with 512 MB, 1 GB, 1.5 GB and 2 GB.
iMac with 512 MB, 1 GB, 1.5 GB and 2 GB.

That will be so much easier! So there won't be too many and confusing threads and such!
 
supremedesigner said:
We seriously need a thread or website that SAY which games run well.

Like this:

MBP with 1 GB of RAM and 2 GHz and is set in high setting in bootcamp, etc. and what games ran well.

MB with 1.5 GB of RAM and 2 GHz and blah blah blah

iMac with 512 MB of RAM and 2 GHz and blah blah blah and so on.

It would be useful if they provide like this:

MBP with 512 MB, 1 GB, 1.5 GB and 2 GB.
MB with 512 MB, 1 GB, 1.5 GB and 2 GB.
iMac with 512 MB, 1 GB, 1.5 GB and 2 GB.

That will be so much easier! So there won't be too many and confusing threads and such!
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https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/214214/

I tried starting that one. It got off to a good start, but died. Maybe it'll do better this time around. :D
 
Civ IV for windows works quite well in BootCamp on my 2Ghz/2GB BlacBook.

Didn't bother with the Mac version due to all the reports of bugs and poor performance (sorry, Aspyr).
 
Macbook gaming

just got a macbook the one for 1099 and was wondering how well it would play counterstrike 1.6 or COD.

fps???
 
Virtualball said:
Hey, I know people have been wanting to know about games on a macbook, and I have seen threads with games already being talked about bu heres my list:

ALL GAMES ON FULL SCREEN

Windows:

Counterstrike Source runs well
Half Life 1.1.1.0 runs well (I actually got 95 fps!)
Sim City 4 Deluxe runs well
The Sims and Sims 2 run well
Half Life 2 runs choppy
Battlefield 2 runs well
Age of Mythology and Age of Empires 2 runs well

Mac:

Halo runs well (full screen, highest settings, a little choppy here and there)

Thats all the games I played so far, if anyone wants requests.

I Plan On Testing:

The Simpsons Hit and Run
Civilization 3 (Mac)

BTW I have the $1099 model. And all I can say is that games on the MacBook actually run very wel, much better then I expected. Oh and first post! :)
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Wait a minute, if this is on the Macbook, how would the MBP cope? This is awesome news, what sort of settings did you have for Battlefield 2?

Cheers
 
clasicks said:
has anyone tried cs 1.6? does it run well?
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It should run fine. I installed it on my Core Solo Mac mini (512MB), and it worked fine. I imagine on a MacBook with a Core Duo it'll run even better.

I'm not at all surprised that CS:S is choppy. That is a pretty GPU-intense game.
 
It's mostly de.dust that's choppy…*the last thread I saw mentioned that it was basically just that map that saw extremely low frame rates.
 
I don't get it. Some people are saying that MacBook is running CS:S "great"?

I have a fully upgraded one, and it runs. So. Fracking. Horribly. No joke. Unless you guys are doing something I'm missing. Oh- and for those of you who are stuck on the black screen:

-Go to launch options
--dxlevel 7.0 <-insert
-Start 'er up
 
mulletman13 said:
Seconded! Interested in WoW ... on the Windows side of things :)
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The discs include both the mac and windows version of Wow however on the macbook it runs considerbly better in windows XP in osx i got 9 - 30fps but i had to put everything on lowest.

on XP i can have the graphics up high (apart from multisample and AF) and get the same sort of framerates...

No where near what a decent dedicated card can do but playable.
 
Cs 1.6

installed windows xp... steam is uploaded and i let cs download... it wont run every time and when it does it doesnt respond...

help plz
thx
 
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