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bobber205 said:
Good to see Civ 3 working well. I just got that game today for three bucks! ;)
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What about Civ 4?

Some games I'm lookin for

Sim City 4
The Sims 2
Civ 4
 
SamIchi said:
What about Civ 4?

Some games I'm lookin for

Sim City 4
The Sims 2
Civ 4
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civ4 works good , what i noticed is that the game runs beter on bootcamp xp than on osx
 
Macbook 1.83 - 512 RAM

-Macbook 1.83
-512 RAM
-Windows XP Pro

Sim City 4: Rush Hour
-Medium Settings; 1280x1024
-Ran above 50fps for the most part. Would only hang momentarily when initially loading all the textures. Zoomed, panned, and rotated surprisingly well with only 512mb of ram.

The Movies
-1024x768
-Medium Settings: averaged about 20-25fps completely zoomed out/lots of onscreen action
-Low Settings: averaged between 25-30fps completely zoomed out/lots of onscreen action

GTA: San Andreas
-Low settings, 1/3 draw distance
-1024x768: Averaged about 20-22fps (25fps is the default frame limiter) and was very playable
-800x600: Averaged 24-25fps with fame limiter

Call of Duty 1: Multiplayer
-1024x768 and Low Settings
-Indoor/Closed maps, like Railyard and Carentan averaged almost 60fps
-Outdoor/Open maps, like Brecourt, averaged between 25-30fps
-Dawnville TDM with over 40 people averaged about 40fps

Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne
-1024x768 and Medium-High Settings
-Generally averaged above 50fps; 30-35fps in intense action scenes

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
-Would not recognize the 945GM graphics chip
 
I like to run all my games at 1280x800, and generally choose medium graphics settings

Unreal Tournament 2004
Mac OSX
Macbook 2.0ghz, 2gb RAM
30-40 fps normal, 15-20 in big battles, 50 when nothing's happening

Warcraft III
Mac OSX, under Rosetta
Macbook 2.0ghz, 2gb RAM
20+ fps all the time, no fps counter so I don't know exact numbers

Call of Duty:United Offensive
Windows, under bootcamp
macbook 2.0ghz, 2gb RAM
30+ fps at all times except with lots of smoke
 
Wow! Good to see Unreal Tournmanent is running well. I've always wanted to play that game...

Neato.
 
FlatOut 2 XP / Boot Camp
- MacBook 1.83 2x512 RAM
- Forest maps: 20-35fps, other maps: 25-40fps
- 1280x800, no postprocessing, no triple buffering, low textures, 30% view distance
- Decent looking and quite playable
 
Good thread, btw.

Shame that the Bootcamp-ed Civ 4 appears to play better than the OSX native one. I'd love to get Civ 4, but I really don't want to install Bootcamp (heard too many stories about what it can do to your system).
 
FleurDuMal said:
Good thread, btw.

Shame that the Bootcamp-ed Civ 4 appears to play better than the OSX native one. I'd love to get Civ 4, but I really don't want to install Bootcamp (heard too many stories about what it can do to your system).
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It doesn't too anything to your system. Trust me, you'll be fine.

The worst is can do is erase your OS X partion when you install, but that can be fixed. :D

And thanks for the compliment. I was worried it wouldn't take off. But it seem to have already.
 
i was wondering - how will WOW run on (the middle one..2ghz White)- http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObj...WHJ2rRclK2M/0.PSLID?mco=32B42242&nclm=MacBook

i mean my pc sucks so bad, it has worse specs than that mac and it runs WOW great apart from in areeas like ironforge which takes a sec or too to stop lagging. but thats it.

also

if i bought that mac from a store liek pcworld or currys would i get all those programs that says are in the box on the apple uk store site?
 
Battlefield 2

Hi Guys,

On the base model Macbooks, I know people who can run Battlefield 2 and some who can not. I have just got a Macbook and I want to install Battlefield 2, will it work?

Thanks
 
Ouch.

Even a Radeon X1300/X300 would be a godsend at this point.

My PC with its Radeon 9800XT can average around 100 FPS in CS:S at 1280x1024 High.
 
World Of Warcraft

Macbook '13 White' 2ghz 512mb Ram

How will it run?

if needed ill rock 1g...

im buying very soon.
 
To above poster. It runs great. I played it during the trial heavily and I found it to be very enjoyable. The only time you'll really notice a difference is the big framerate increase when you go inside buildings (less to draw obviously).

And I have just the basic 512 ram, at least for now ;)
 
sounds good enough for me my friend :D . jesus if my pc which we got when i was 11 and im 20 now will run WOW well i think the macbooks will be even better haha
 
I played around a bit with Boot Camp. Tried running CS:Source and decided that it wasn't playable, as everyone else here has found. Eve Online ran fine, with very good frame rates, as you would expect from a game that is a good 3 or more years old. But I found it unplayable because during the game, the fan on my Macbook was on constantly, which makes a considerable amount of noise. I actually found it to be more loud and annoying than my old nvidia card in my PC, which is saying something.

Bootcamp/XP will probably be uninstalled tomorrow....
 
Ok my experiences have been mixed. I have never taken official Fps reading so bear with me as i will make a guess.

Deus Ex Game of the Year Edition XP / Boot Camp
- MacBook 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM
- ~100+fps with max settings
- The game operates too quickly. It might be early observed as being choppy. The game speed problem has been noted on pc's though.

Deus Ex Invisible War XP / Boot Camp
- MacBook 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM
- ~20-30fps with Default settings
- Decent play, for the most part smooth, some chop in seatle archology level.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 All expansions XP / Boot Camp
- MacBook 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM
- ~20-35fps with standard settings
- Smooth with decent load times accept when the game turns to night time play, during a fireworks display and on some carerr levels with alot of theming.

Vampire The Masquerade- Bloodlines XP / Boot Camp
- MacBook 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM
- ~0fp
- Will not execute. I have tried several things to fix this but it will not run. The game is famous for bugs anyway.

Warhammer 40k- Dawn of War +Winter Assualt XP / Boot Camp
- MacBook 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM
- ~20-35fps with default settings
- Smooth for the most part. Will begin to lag in very large firefights. WhenPlaying as the orcs do make to many gretchin.

Sin Episodes: Emergence XP / Boot Camp
- MacBook 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM
- ~20-25fps with medium settings and 800x600 screen res
- Runs about as well as Half life 2 umder the same conditions but has a little more chop. Sin1 which is included buts runs a touch on the fast side.

I will be trying the following soon:
X3: The Threat
Star Wars Battlefront
Freelancer
Homeworld
Homeworld2
Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance
Need For Speed Most Wanted
 
Sorry to resurrect this thread.

Has anyone compared World of Warcraft performance between OS X and Windows? The only account of running World of Warcraft in Windows in this thread has said something like "runs gr8", which doesn't tell me very much.

I'm planning on getting a MacBook (hopefully Merom) and picking up WoW again, so I'd really like to know if it runs better under Windows than under OS X.

Thanks!
 
Jedi Academy 1.0.1en (Universal)
- Macbook with 2GHz and 2GB RAM
- Normal Settings 70-90 fps | High Settings 30-50 fps
- It ran real smooth and great! Problem about the Universal update is that 3rd party mods like the popular Movie Battles II does not work :(
 
fingrpickr said:
Sim City 4: Rush Hour
-Medium Settings; 1280x1024
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That's funny when the 13.3" screen's maximum resolution is 1280*800.

Unless you're driving an external 17" LCD of course.
 
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