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    Games... any idea?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Thom A$$, Apr 14, 2009.

  1. Thom A$$

    Thom A$$ Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys,

    I love my macbook. I needed to say it once again. I don't have much apps on it, but I got pretty much all I need for my everyday work. I didn't install any parallels or boot camp yet, I never felt the need to do it for now. Since I pretty much stopped playing games. Sometimes I have a bit of spare times that I would maybe like to spend playing games on my mac. Do you guys know any game available for mac that's great? I'm usually a fps type of gamer but i'm opened to other possibilities. what about COD2 and COD4 ? XIII ? Does anyone like the game Spore? I never tried it. Or do you just suggest me to install windows?

    Peace
     
    Thom A$$, Apr 14, 2009
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    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    Wait for Diablo III and SC2 :D
     
    poliuy, Apr 14, 2009
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  4. Thom A$$

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    Yeah they are on my guestlist, I hope my macbook will run em well.
     
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    You can just buy the controller and reciever seperate and use them to play games on mac, alot easier than using keyboard+mouse
     
    iTzCaSPeR, Apr 14, 2009
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  8. Thom A$$

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    that's not an option that I consider. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse...
     
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    if you feel like learning a bit more about Wine (which Crossover uses) you can do everything Crossover does yourself just using open source Wine... Its more technical, and takes more learning, but I've had better results getting things to work doing it myself, than paying for Crossover.

    best place to start is www.winehq.org
    for Mac, theres a guy that helps out with Darwine installs (Darwine is basically a Darwin/OSX build of Wine), if you don't want to always compile your own latest versions...
    www.kronenberg.org/darwine/
    I recommend for gaming to always use the versions that are listed as "unstable" which means its not a final super tested version, not that it'll crash easy or something. There are tons of games the latest unstables will run that the last stable thats quite old now cannot. Crossover Mac is based off of stable releases, where Crossover Games is based off the latest and greats "unstable"
     
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    Colton Also Proudly American

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    There is a widget called open fire gold, a simple 'shooting' game. Just for some fun. :D
     
    Lyanowu, Apr 14, 2009
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  12. Thom A$$

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    Someone showed me a game called Urban terror, its a fps, its not that bad... cheap looking when you are used to cod4 or 5.

    We never know when D3 and SC2 will come out. I hope its gonna be soon and playable on the 2 Ghz macbook.
     
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    I'm sure it will be playable, since the all the Macbook's have one of the best integrated cards available, the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. ;)
     
    Colton, Apr 14, 2009
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    World of Warcraft, you don't need any other game. And then Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 will just take up the rest of your time. You're good to go until the next release!
     
    zergslayer69, Apr 14, 2009
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  15. Thom A$$

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    I never played WoW, I just think its too expensive...
     
    Thom A$$, Apr 14, 2009
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    Spore is a pretty average game. Also some of the mac versions of games are buggy, I can't recall which ports, but read the USER reviews before getting the game. Don't read just the computer magazine reviews, they are often wrong and bribed.
    The best bet unfortunately, is to use bootcamp and boot into windows for gaming.
     
    sarahfox, Apr 14, 2009
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    Most newer games probably won't run on your MacBook if you have the Intel GMA graphics. If you have the newer, unibody MacBooks with the NVIDIA GPU, then you're good to go!
     
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  18. Thom A$$

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    cool thank you
     
    Thom A$$, Apr 14, 2009
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    COD4 runs nice in OSX. medium settings are great. high settings go to a pretty low fps in some levels, but is okay in others.

    I've got Left 4 Dead, Black and White 2, Spore, and Warcraft III installed in windows on bootcamp. they all run superbly.

    also looking for good mac games. anyone have any good recommendations then the other games already mentioned?
     
    thephased, Apr 14, 2009
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    If you want native osx games, there really isn't many. Your best bet is to bootcamp into windows and go from there.
     
    zergslayer69, Apr 15, 2009
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