Playing windows games on a mac?

[Chilaha]

Hi everyone,
I have a few questions about running some windows games on my mac.
I know I could either use bootcamp or parallels and was just wondering which one would have better performance for gaming?
Secondly, using either bootcamp or parallels could I run any of these games:
Axys Adventures Truthseeker, Timothy and Titus, Left Behind 4: World At War, and Adam's Venture 3: Revelations.

I would think my computer would be able to handle every game except maybe Adam's Venture 3 because it uses Unreal Engine 3 and I don't think an integrated graphics card could handle that.

I appreciate any helpful information you can give me.
Thanks,
Chilaha


PS. My Macbooks Specs
Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Intel GMA X3100:

Chipset Model: GMA X3100

 

[Briax]

You'll get the best performance experience using Bootcamp - no doubt about that.

 

[TallManNY]

Bootcamp pretty much turns your Mac into a PC. So you should be able to just look at the Spec minimums for those games and see if your Mac is sufficient. That is a pretty old Mac, so I would think you would want to go Bootcamp on it so you don't add the performance hit of a virtual machine on top of old hardware. I have Bootcamp on my desktop, not my laptop, which I think is about the same as yours. So sorry I can't tell you for sure what it would be like on your laptop.

I'm writing this while in Bootcamp as I was gaming for a bit on Sunday and just left my computer in Windows. I don't mind Windows 7 and it is pretty neat after being a Mac user for, basically, my entire life to now theoretically have access to any new release PC game.

 

[LeandrodaFL]

You have to use bootcamp to use full hardware acceleartion, paralles will serioulsly injure your performance

for light gaming, having bootcamp on your mac is great

But having said that, the gaming videocards on even current macs cannot beat a full gaming videocard. Just look it like that, my videocard in my PC is twice as big as my MacMini. So I totally recomend a building a gaming PC if you can afford having two computers.