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eurolit1

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Apr 15, 2007
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i know its not a gaming rig, and i know macbook pro has a dedicated video card. but can my macbook play games like warcraft 3. i assume you need to have windows xp installed? whats the most graphic heavy game youve ran on your macbook compfortably?
 
i know its not a gaming rig, and i know macbook pro has a dedicated video card. but can my macbook play games like warcraft 3. i assume you need to have windows xp installed? whats the most graphic heavy game youve ran on your macbook compfortably?

Warcraft 3 works well as does world of warcraft Prey is really bad
and thats all i've tried on my friends macbok
 
Halo UB runs pretty nicely in OSX. I don't have the graphics turned all the way up, but they're not all set to the lowest settings either. You do get a decrease in speed when you turn the graphics and sound all the way up, but that's pretty much a given. :D
 
The MacBook can play a lot of games, but somewhat new games can't be played at the highest quality. Most complex games won't play well enough to be considered "playable" by most people, but you expected that.
 
war3 runs great (all settings maxed, ~30 fps in large multiplayer) since it went intel-native. Civ IV runs, but not well. By the end of the game, it's pretty awful. Those 2 are pretty much all I've tried on the macbook in my signature.
 
Age of Empires 3 runs surprisingly well on low settings. I have everything on rock bottom settings though, because honestly I can't tell much of a difference between that and high anyway. I don't have a FPS figure but it's smooth, anyway.

^ This would be on a C2D 2.0Ghz, 1 GB RAM
 
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