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Warhammer Online on an iMac w/ 8800 GS ?

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slffl

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I just installed the Warhammer Beta on my 24" iMac 2.4Ghz w/ Radeon 2600 at 1920x1080. It runs okay, but it's not even close to smooth.

I'm wondering if anyone has tried Warhammer yet on a new 24" iMac with the nVidia 8800 GS? How does it run at native res with High Quality graphics settings?
 
I have had my ce copy preordered for months. Shame UK donesn't get to play Preview Weekend.

I have a Macbook Pro 2.5Ghz with 512mb 8600 GT. I would (also) like to know how it runs on this Mac if possible please.
 
The video card in the Imac with the ATI 2600 is what is hurting you the most there - thats the one I have - it runs ok on it but you have to turn down that high quality a good bit - also I use non boot camp drivers (hacked Omega ones )

The newer Imacs with the 8800 don't have any problems with it - friend of mine has that as main rig and in boot camp can run the WAR beta at 1920x1200 without problem - again using drivers not from bootcamp or apple but updated beta ones
 
kahine said:
The video card in the Imac with the ATI 2600 is what is hurting you the most there - thats the one I have - it runs ok on it but you have to turn down that high quality a good bit - also I use non boot camp drivers (hacked Omega ones )

The newer Imacs with the 8800 don't have any problems with it - friend of mine has that as main rig and in boot camp can run the WAR beta at 1920x1200 without problem - again using drivers not from bootcamp or apple but updated beta ones
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I'm playing on Windows Vista. Do you think Windows XP would make it run any better?
 
slffl said:
I'm playing on Windows Vista. Do you think Windows XP would make it run any better?
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I run Vista on the beefiest machines , but I'd advise trying XP on the Imac with the 2600 and make sure and get updated video drivers and not the boot camp ones - should help it be playable at least
 
kahine said:
I run Vista on the beefiest machines , but I'd advise trying XP on the Imac with the 2600 and make sure and get updated video drivers and not the boot camp ones - should help it be playable at least
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I use a 20" iMac with an ATI card (2600), running XP. You are right the current boot camp drivers are not going to work with Warhammer Online. I tried. Its not playable. Which updated drivers do you mean?

On a side note, my Wife's MacBook Pro ran it well enough. Without any of the video issues that I experienced.
 
Belascobob said:
I use a 20" iMac with an ATI card (2600), running XP. You are right the current boot camp drivers are not going to work with Warhammer Online. I tried. Its not playable. Which updated drivers do you mean?

On a side note, my Wife's MacBook Pro ran it well enough. Without any of the video issues that I experienced.
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My iMac with ATI (2400 or 2600. Cant recall which one it is. Last gen default 20" card.) ran it perfectly fine with the latest Boot Camp drivers from ATI. The only noticable graphics glitch was when I was in a scenario and off in the distance you get a weird little clipping like view. Like if you played a fps and turned clipping off to walk through walls. But it was minimal and did not impair my game play at all.

Unless the ATI Tray Tools I installed also provided new drivers which I don't think it did.
 
Cander said:
My iMac with ATI (2400 or 2600. Cant recall which one it is. Last gen default 20" card.) ran it perfectly fine with the latest Boot Camp drivers from ATI. The only noticable graphics glitch was when I was in a scenario and off in the distance you get a weird little clipping like view. Like if you played a fps and turned clipping off to walk through walls. But it was minimal and did not impair my game play at all.

Unless the ATI Tray Tools I installed also provided new drivers which I don't think it did.
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I got dumped a few times before i realized what was happening. I updated to the newest drivers I could find on the ATI site which helped but it would still occasionally stutter hard and then I'd end up staring at a low res desktop. I am going to try Omega drivers during open beta and see if that helps. I didn't have a lot of time to play with it so any suggestions/info would be hot.
 
Vista is part of the problem for right now because it alone takes up a ton of memory and the game right now in debug mode takes up 1 gig. Once it goes live it will be around 300-500mb of memory.
 
Little Question

Belascobob said:
I got dumped a few times before i realized what was happening. I updated to the newest drivers I could find on the ATI site which helped but it would still occasionally stutter hard and then I'd end up staring at a low res desktop. I am going to try Omega drivers during open beta and see if that helps. I didn't have a lot of time to play with it so any suggestions/info would be hot.
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Hmmm Thanks 4 the info that sounds like it might fix my problem. One question though. (I'm using Windows Vista btw) Should I hop on vista and dl the new drives or stay on Mac to do it? Or do I select the bootcamp thing they have? the Bootcamp option though only supports Xp
 
Also keep in mind that the game's still in open beta. Performance on your machine will be better once it is fully released.
 
hmm.. I am glad to have found this thread.. I was almost pursuaded to buy /make a winxp gaming rig just to play this game.. everything I have read says you need a 8800 GT card..

I think I am being way to critical.. right now I am using .. a G5 20" Imac.. 2 gig ram.. and I can only play WoW.. at 18 fps.. so..

anything would be better..

I will wait and see the results you guys get.. I have the game installed and ready on my old winxp machine with a radeon 9550 lol
 
ScottC2105 said:
I have had my ce copy preordered for months. Shame UK donesn't get to play Preview Weekend.

I have a Macbook Pro 2.5Ghz with 512mb 8600 GT. I would (also) like to know how it runs on this Mac if possible please.
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Hi,
I have MacBook Pro 2,4 Ghz C2D, GeForce 8600GT 256 MB, with 4GB RAM.
I'm running WAR since the Beta on Windows Vista, with all settings on max, on 1440x990. RvR War with many players are no problems. Frames are always around 50. WAR ist a Dualcore optimized game. Any graphic card, with at least up to 256 Meg should be fine.
 
It is still running fine on my ATI 2600 Mobility 128 MB card. I got spell effects set to self only which makes RvR handle fairly well. No major hiccups at least in New Emeskrank(sp?) RvR area.
 
I have a 24-in iMac with the 3GHz CPU, nVida 8800-something video card, and 4GB RAM. I installed Vista Home Premium OEM via Bootcamp on a 100MB partition.

I'm running WAR with my game settings cranked up, and I have had ZERO problems. It's really rock solid.

My only gripe is that I spend more time now in Vista and less time than I'd like with OSX.
 
BigDaddyDiesel said:
I have a 24-in iMac with the 3GHz CPU, nVida 8800-something video card, and 4GB RAM. I installed Vista Home Premium OEM via Bootcamp on a 100MB partition.

I'm running WAR with my game settings cranked up, and I have had ZERO problems. It's really rock solid.

My only gripe is that I spend more time now in Vista and less time than I'd like with OSX.
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Kick ass to hear this.
 
OZMP said:
stick with WoW guys, support the company that supports us
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If WoW had decent PvP or even knew what RvR was I might , but since WAR currently > WoW in a huge way in anything RvR or PvP related I'd rather not suffer through it any more -

No thanks
 
I use WAR on an imac 20" RADEON HD2600.

to make it work with a decent framrate I had to crank down to almost lowest graphic details. by doing so everything works fine though.

the major problem I experience are frequent crashes of the game.

I run the game with bootcamp drivers right now - so I'll give updated ones from ATI a try and after that will install OMEGA drivers if that won't help... I really hope it will help though. A crash every half an hour is major a pain in the.....
 
I'm running at 1920x1200 on a 24" iMac, 2.4ghz, 4GB RAM, Radeon 2600, Windows XP, ATI video drivers, WAR Live version 1.0.

I have everything set to max and it runs flawlessy!!!!
 
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