I noticed that older games run craptacular on the new Intel Macs. I'm not a big computer gamer but wanted to see how well the MBP can handle a couple game demos. I found a page on macrumors that shows what games are made for the Intel chip: http://guides.macrumors.com/Universal_Binary_Games
Battlefield 2142 looks cool but I can't find the Mac demo![]()
Do you guys have any recommendations?
Thanks!
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My recommendation...
Install Windows XP via Boot Camp to play games and update your graphic drivers at LaptopVideo2Go. -
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Yeah. Bootcamp with Vista is best. Gives you access to all the Windows games.
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I plan on doing that when I get a larger capacity hard drive.. right now I only have 120GB with just 56GB free space. What do you guys recommend, Parallels, Bootcamp, or something else?
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lol, mac's don't have good game support... just install windows via bootcamp.
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Thanks for the heads up Arquis!
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I have bootcamp installed, and I play games using that.
But it also is a pain sometimes to restart into windows to play games, so some games that are native are really appreciated.
2142 is a good game, and Quake 4 was also good in mac. I think they released the lego star wars games in osx as well, but not sure.
But yea, eventually get bootcamp. -
Don't games tend to perform noticeably better on Windows than OS X if you use the LaptopVideo2Go drivers though?
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thnksfrthmmrs Notebook Evangelist
Haha yea you would get single digit frame rates running games in Parallels or VMware. Like everyone else I would recommend going for Boot Camp to play games. When EA first released their games their were numerous problems and I'm not sure if they resolved them yet but I'd seriously avoid any Mac games.
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masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook
still highly rec. lv2go for the increase in performance. -
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WoW on my OSX is pretty nice
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If you want to play any game other then that, install Windoze lol. -
which is better to install in bootcamp vista or xp?
Could the 8600 handle direct-x 10? -
thnksfrthmmrs Notebook Evangelist
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If you are going to game, get a 360 especially if you like MP gaming.
Dedicated Video cards in a notebook are a total waste. They eat up battery and produce heat/noise from cooling fans. The x3100 in the Macbook is more than enough for anything else besides games.
To bad they dont make a MBP with integrated graphics. -
(And btw it's people like you who are killing the PC gaming industry. ) -
Here we go with the console vs PC debate...
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How odd for it to sprout up on a Mac forum.
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Oblivion runs pretty decent n my MBP with 256 MB.
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Games for Intel Mac ?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by codeoverride, Feb 10, 2008.