Quake Wars has been released(Mac version)

[Dont Hurt Me]

Looks like the game is set at 30fps, I was getting 30fps all the time except during hard battle with multiple vehicles and players all firing then frames dropped to 18 for a split second but for the most part sat at 30fps. looks like you can play with some things from what I read. I was playing with high settings @ 1280 x 800. Area 22 which is a outdoor level thats pretty good, running strogg over with the 3 wheeler is just fun but dangerous. Ill test high @1680 x 1050 wide and see how that kills the frames.

 

[redsteven]

Im using a 2.4 core2duo iMac 2600 pro video card and stock 1 gig of ram. The game asks for the cd to be intalled before playing. iMac runs it very well in my view.

how much VRAM?

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

how much VRAM?

The 2600 pro in 2.4 iMac is 256. I ran the game in 1680 x 1050 on high and it still ran at 30 fps and dips into the 20s on occasion with lots of action. Again I only have 1 gig I feel 2 will make it sweet.

 

[fblack]

Looks like the game is set at 30fps, I was getting 30fps all the time except during hard battle with multiple vehicles and players all firing then frames dropped to 18 for a split second but for the most part sat at 30fps. looks like you can play with some things from what I read. I was playing with high settings @ 1280 x 800. Area 22 which is a outdoor level thats pretty good, running strogg over with the 3 wheeler is just fun but dangerous. Ill test high @1680 x 1050 wide and see how that kills the frames.

The PC version is also capped at 30, but I've read that you can pull up the console and change this. However, I've also read that its not really worth it unless you have a very good graphics card. Are you just playing the bots or have you engaged in online play? How is the online play working out for you?

 

[schlomo32]

Quake wars on 2.5ghz MBP

When using 'com_showfps 1' in the terminal i see my fps move between 28 and 60 in most areas and into the 100s some. Though sometimes it seems to be locked at 30 fps (fluctuates quickly between 29 - 31 fps). Video settings are 1680 x 1050 w/ everything on medium quality. Im running the 2.5 ghz macbook pro w/ 512 mb of vram.
Does anyone know what file in the game's contents I am able to edit (like the autoexec or init files associated with games in Windows). It looks like theres a good amount of tweaks that can be made that way to speed things up.

 

[Chris83]

Any demo for this yet?

 

[relimw]

dvd check fails?

Heyo,

Is anybody else having problems with the dvd check failing?

I even tried running it from the dvd and it still failed.

 

[alkar]

This ports sucks IMO, even on a 8800GT, the game has lots of frameskipping, it's weird you know... it's running at 60fps but the mouse feels laggy and not smooth.. Same when the guy walks... Weird

EDIT : this running it everything fully maxxed AND even lowed down.

 

[1ncr3du10u5]

This ports sucks IMO, even on a 8800GT, the game has lots of frameskipping, it's weird you know... it's running at 60fps but the mouse feels laggy and not smooth.. Same when the guy walks... Weird

EDIT : this running it everything fully maxxed AND even lowed down.

What mouse do you use? I found that the mouse wasn't smooth when I used it for Quake 4 but it turned out to be that I didn't have the intellimouse Mac drivers. I didn't need the drivers for most things but for gaming it was noticeable poor without.

 

[UpQuark]

ET:QW Crashes on me..

It won't even start. I opened a ticket with Aspyr.

24" iMac 2.16Gh C2D w/ 3Gigs RAM + Nvidia Gt7600@256MVram.

I thought for sure this would run well. I cannot figure it out..

Any ideas?

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

What version OS you running?

 

[alkar]

What mouse do you use? I found that the mouse wasn't smooth when I used it for Quake 4 but it turned out to be that I didn't have the intellimouse Mac drivers. I didn't need the drivers for most things but for gaming it was noticeable poor without.

My bad. The problem wasn't the mouse but me being dumb not even noticing that my wireless keyboard was low on battery.

Anyway I just tried a USB Keyboard, and the game runs beautifully now everything fully maxxed (everything ticked except Vsync) and every bars to the max (anisotropic 16x etc) in 1280x1024. I'd say somewhere between 30 fps and 50fps.

If I select "High" in the "auto config" menu, the game runs between 45fps and 60fps+ for sure, but it's nicer to have anistropic 16x and all the things it doesn't put to high...

So I actually was wrong : this port is OK, not as fast as on Windows but definitly on par.

But I don't think we'll have that luck for Call of Duty 4 : Quake Wars is an OpenGL game from the beginning with a linux version while CoD4 is D3D and Windows only...

 

[UpQuark]

10.5.2

What version OS you running?

10.5.2...sorry I didn't include that in the original post...

 

[relimw]

It won't even start. I opened a ticket with Aspyr.

24" iMac 2.16Gh C2D w/ 3Gigs RAM + Nvidia Gt7600@256MVram.

I thought for sure this would run well. I cannot figure it out..

Any ideas?

Do you get any windows saying anything? If not, goto /Applications/Utilities/ and open Console, and see if you have any QW-realted messages posted there.