Question about demos and specs

[mars-lumograph]

Hi everyone,
I recently bought a Macbook Intel Core 2 duo (not the pro) and it played the Quake 4 demo rather smoothly.
Then I thought of buying Unreal Tournament 2004, since it's cool, and it requires less than Quake 4. So I did. But I played the UT demo and, my god, it runs terribly. It lags so much, even when I play in a window, at the lowest resolution with everything off or low. Now is it just the demo? Or will I have to cancel my marvellous game?

My specs are:
1g of RAM
2,16 Ghz
64mb video card

UT 2004 requires:
256m of RAM
933 MHz
32mb video card

thanks

 

[Eidorian]

The Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo is not a Universal Binary.

Secondly, the MacBook does not have a discrete graphics card.

Finally, lag = high latency

Lag != low frames per second.

 

[mars-lumograph]

what does that mean universal binary?
if I fully install it then with a patch, will it become better?

 

[Eidorian]

what does that mean universal binary?
if I fully install it then with a patch, will it become better?

Universal Binary is Apple speak for an application that is designed to run at full native speed on either PowerPC or Intel Macs.

The UT2K4 demo is a PowerPC application so it runs on an Intel machine via a translation layer with a lot of overhead.

The full version will run as fast as possible on the integrated GMA 950 graphics.

 

[mars-lumograph]

k thanks, you keep me hoping