Unofficial Gaming MacBook Thread: Post Results Here

[Red Sox]

Ok, just to extend this thread a bit longer.

I am looking at getting a Macbook 2.2. with 2 gigs of ram. The games I am interested in playing under WIndows are Call of Duty and Counterstrike: Source. I will be playing these games at lan parties. Is this possible with this machine?
Thanks.

I haven't tried cal of duty, but counter strike source is very playable. At max resolution and medium graphics quality, I've been getting around 45 FPS. This is with windows xp via bootcamp.

 

[comictimes]

Ok, just to extend this thread a bit longer.

I am looking at getting a Macbook 2.2. with 2 gigs of ram. The games I am interested in playing under WIndows are Call of Duty and Counterstrike: Source. I will be playing these games at lan parties. Is this possible with this machine?
Thanks.

Call of Duty 1 and 2 are fine, but 4 won't work at all. As in Windows won't even open it because the graphics card in the Macbook (if you can call it that) doesn't have some stuff necessary to run the game.

 

[Soab]

It is possible but i will not recommend it, your fps will not be good enaugh at all maps, and it will make it hard for u to own ut friends

 

[paddy]

Has anyone played Age of Empires 3 on the 2.2 macbook SR?

I read through the thread and didn't see anything about it?

Yup, I installed AoE 3 on my MB 2.16 1GB, ran perfectly for me, just make sure to turn the settings down a bit thought. Rome: Total War worked like a charm for me too.

 

[jegbook]

GMA 950 vs. GMA 965/X3100 fair?

From all that I've read in comparison between the GMA950 and the GMA 965 in the MacBooks when booted into Win XP or Vista, it seems that it's not a fair comparison.

That is to say, if something works well with the GMA950, that does not mean it will work well the GMA965/X3100. This seems to be a driver issue. The Windows drivers for the GMA950 seem MUCH more capable than the Windows drivers for the GMA965/X3100. Even though the hardware of the GMA965 has much better potential than the GMA950, the software for the GMA965 seems to be lacking.

The real world results? The GMA950 may provide better results than the GMA965 until Intel writes a driver that fully enables all the hardware benefits of the GMA965.

Any real-world experience of this theory?

 

[spamcop]

Hi, my results from playing on Macbook (CPU 2GHz, 1GB RAM 667Mhz, GMA950) using Bootcamp (WinXP sp2)

"perfect" means more than 50 FPS.

Quake 3 Arena perfect!
Jedi Academy perfect!
Soldat perfect!
Warcraft 3 perfect!
Trackmania Nations perfect!
Desperados perfect!
The curse of Monkey Island 3 perfect!