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World of Warcraft - OS X or Bootcamp ?

I cannot remember the source at the moment but I read an article from one of the big, game companies. Their data showed that gaming performance was a better on Windows but OS-X had far better stability.

As for WoW, I agree with previous posters about WoW running great native on OS-X. WoW is not a graphic intensive game; certainly nothing like Crysis. Of the few problems I have had with WoW, aside from one patch that gave PowerPC users some fits, all my issues came from old or conflicting add-ons.
 
One more question : I will be a casual player (so I won't be joining any guilds real soon because I simply don't have the time to participate in daily raids).

Do the expansions (BC, WotlK and Cata) offer anything worthwhile to the casual player (or lone wolf) ?
 
Dr. McKay said:
One more question : I will be a casual player (so I won't be joining any guilds real soon because I simply don't have the time to participate in daily raids).

Do the expansions (BC, WotlK and Cata) offer anything worthwhile to the casual player (or lone wolf) ?
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I was a big lone wolf, and YES especially now it is worthwhile. You can simply just queue up for the dungeon finder throughout the Vanilla, BC and Wrath experience and go level from there while solo'ing quests in between. I did this lone wolf all the way up ti 80. I joined a Guild (and you should too) not all guilds are about raiding. They are there to talk to, ask for help and guidance (I did this even though I am a big solo'er). But with the inclusion of dungeon finder it helps a lot for ppl like you and I. There are a ton of fun dungeons and a LOT of people still queue up for them to play. Cata I solo'd to 85 as well, occasionally grouping with randoms along the way. I finally got my friend to join and we did refer a friend so I leveled an alt 1-60 via dungeon finder. A ton of fun.
 
Ok, thx. We're almost finished renovating the house and we're living with my parents for the moment.
We'll be moving back in two months. I'll wait until then to make the jump. In the meantime, I'll be enjoying my trial account to the max !
 
aznguyen316 said:
I was a big lone wolf, and YES especially now it is worthwhile. You can simply just queue up for the dungeon finder throughout the Vanilla, BC and Wrath experience and go level from there while solo'ing quests in between. I did this lone wolf all the way up ti 80. I joined a Guild (and you should too) not all guilds are about raiding. They are there to talk to, ask for help and guidance (I did this even though I am a big solo'er). But with the inclusion of dungeon finder it helps a lot for ppl like you and I. There are a ton of fun dungeons and a LOT of people still queue up for them to play. Cata I solo'd to 85 as well, occasionally grouping with randoms along the way. I finally got my friend to join and we did refer a friend so I leveled an alt 1-60 via dungeon finder. A ton of fun.
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I second this opinion for the OP even though I no longer play WoW. When I played it was about 75% solo and pickup groups for normal non-dungeon questing. Guilds can be built in help, friends, and can make the gaming experience much richer. Just confirm before you join a guild that is it casual, usually meaning there are no raid participation requirements.

To reinforce- I play using the MacOS whenever I can get away with it. Bootcamp is for when there are no other options. :)
 
IMO you can do the lone wolf but leveling in Cataclysm is faster due to some nice guild perks such as accelerated XP and profession skills. Besides the old heirloom gear there are nice heirloom cloaks that are good til 85 as well. I recommend finding a fun lvling guild. Besides, it's nice to be able to share professions with guildies so you don't have to pay big gold for enchants and gems. When a few of us get bored we look for epic vanilla and BC recipes to twink pvp toons. I suck at pvp but I still enjoy helping the team with their gear and it's another fun way to lvl toons. After that then you have the choice to do raiding and pvp. Have fun!
:)
 
I was thinking of starting off with just the Battlechest. It's dirt cheap now and I can always buy the other two expansion packs later when the price goes down a bit.
Since I won't have a lot of time to play WoW (about an hour and a half a day, and probably not even every day) I won't be leveling quickly.
Or is there enough on offer for novices in WotlK and Cataclysm ?
 
Dr. McKay said:
I was thinking of starting off with just the Battlechest. It's dirt cheap now and I can always buy the other two expansion packs later when the price goes down a bit.
Since I won't have a lot of time to play WoW (about an hour and a half a day, and probably not even every day) I won't be leveling quickly.
Or is there enough on offer for novices in WotlK and Cataclysm ?
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Do you have a buddy that would play with you? If so, Refer-a-friend gives TRIPLE XP if you're within 4 levels of each other up until level 60. This is pretty tremendous if you and a friend get on and group with each other through dungeons and quests etc.

If not, that's okay the experience is still good. If you don't have a buddy that you know will join with ya shoot me a PM, I can just send you a referral link anyway.
 
I am a hardcore WOW player, I have a MBP unibody 1st gen with 6GB ram, 9600gt 256MB and for raiding I need to turn everything to the minimum, and I am unable to perform well in 25man.
The graph req are pretty high, I think even a top of the line MBP couldnt do the job well.
My mac pro can handle the game well, Radeon 3870 512MB, but in the native resolution of 1920x1200 it lags in anything more than fair settings.
So any integrated chipset would sux in the game, so people saying that a integrated card like the intel ones, havent tried the game recently or just do questing alone in Azeroth, even getting to Orgrimmar full of people a friday night is very very graph intensive.
This is my Hunter:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/quelthalas/akita/advanced
 
I been assimilated big time by Apple ...


I used to play WoW via Bootcamp (own an IMac 27 Core i7) under Windows 7


Performance was slightly better but I always needed to reboot in OSX for various reasons. So I started playing WoW under OSX and I got used to it.

Got used to the wireless keyboard as well, with the F-keys being right over the their corresponding number keys.


Result: always play under OSX now
 
As what many others have said, WoW, and pretty much all Blizzard games, run fantastic on OSX. Blizzard has always supported Mac, simply because many of their engineers run Macs themselves. WoW and SC2 runs fantastically for me on my 27 inch Core i7, 8gb DDR3, AMD 5750 iMac.

WoW does run pretty bad on any integrated graphics though, and that includes Windows as well. IG were never meant for gaming. Any who tell you otherwise is just trolling, because at the end of the day, performance and graphic settings are going to be extremely poor.

Valve where the ones who said stability on OSX is far better than on Windows, developing on OSX has been fantastic, and that Apple developer tools are extremely easy to use. They also said OSX graphics drivers are getting very close to Windows in performance. Valve also stated that working with Apple has been fantastic and Apple is really working close with them on getting graphics drivers performance up to Windows speed. Valve likes the fact that since Apple uses a select range of hardware, its easier to iron out the bugs and optimize the code for that given hardware. Windows may currently provide slightly better performing drivers, but its hard to make sure the game will run stable on the extreme wide variety of hardware.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...in-gaming-performance-excels-at-stability.ars

Both Blizzard and Valve have been working with Apple to improve graphic performance, fix graphic driver issues, and update OpenGL.
 
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