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How is the gaming performance on the apple powerbooks?

post #1 of 19
6/10/04 at 10:20pm
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I noticed that they now have 9700's in them, so I was wondering how the gaming performance is on them.
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post #2 of 19
6/10/04 at 10:21pm
huh?
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post #3 of 19
6/10/04 at 10:22pm
no clue
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post #4 of 19
6/10/04 at 10:24pm
What games are we talking about here? After all, many if not most PC games are not available on the Mac. If you really care about gaming, then you don't have much of a choice than to get a PC.
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post #5 of 19
6/10/04 at 10:35pm
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Like UT2004 is out for mac, but I havent been able to find anywhere posting Mac benchmarks of it.
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post #6 of 19
6/10/04 at 10:49pm
As I understand it, nVidia does OpenGL better than ATi.

Good luck finding games with non-crappy gl renderers.
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post #7 of 19
6/10/04 at 10:53pm
owned:

http://webdev.o1.com/rvb/movies/switch/RvB_switch.mov

10.1MB file...
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post #8 of 19
6/10/04 at 10:57pm
im downloading it but...

"owned" what?
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post #9 of 19
6/10/04 at 10:59pm
there's also 9800 pro for mac desktops if i remember correctly...I don't think the primary purpose of high-end mac cards is gaming, I think it's geared towards the video editing and other multimedia sector. Even so, a good video card won't help much in those areas, so a high-end mac video card seems like a great way to waste money.
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post #10 of 19
6/10/04 at 11:00pm
that video is

"my name is gus,,, and im a gamer.... well i used to be"
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post #11 of 19
6/10/04 at 11:27pm
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Well, I found some benchmarks, not all that impressive (though it did do pretty good in Halo), I think im gonna stick with PC.
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post #12 of 19
6/10/04 at 11:31pm
im curious but what did they get? please share ur findings
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post #13 of 19
6/12/04 at 5:41pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rincewind
im curious but what did they get? please share ur findings
This is the only website I found with benchmarks.
http://www.barefeats.com/pb11.html
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post #14 of 19
6/12/04 at 5:56pm
well, u can use emulators to run windows on ur mac systems
i wonder if u can run a game through that emulator.
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post #15 of 19
6/12/04 at 6:00pm
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Man, I completly forgot about that. I'll have to check up on that (VirtualPC). Maybe I will go with a Mac...
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post #16 of 19
6/12/04 at 6:09pm
Playing a game using a Windows emulator will not yield very good performance. If you really want to play games, then a PC is the just about the only way to go. Otherwise, you'll be stuck with an extremely limited choice of games that probably won't run as well as they would on a PC.
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post #17 of 19
6/12/04 at 6:31pm
Emulator performance (Virtual PC specifically) is not pathetic.

It's sub-pathetic.

It might - just might - play Solitaire properly, but that's about all. And I'm not even exaggerating.
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post #18 of 19
6/13/04 at 2:27am
yea i was about to buy one of those new powerbooks, but i started having second thoughts because of gaming. my friend said to get virtual pc then, but i read that it is extremely slow. mainly because your basically using two OS's at once. if u really want a PB then you'll have to max out your RAM to as much as you can, then ou probably yeild results close to that of a 6 year old copaq with a 900mhz AMD processor, and a radeon 9200 128 mb video card, WITH windows ME. lol thats what im running right now lol it was a hard time running ghost recon and it cant use microsoft word lol
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post #19 of 19
6/13/04 at 2:44am
Gaming on Virtual PC is not feasible because the emulator does not take advantage of hardware Direct3D support. It only emulates some ancient STB 2D only video card. Because Macs and PCs use the same type of video cards, hardware support would be theoretically possible, but trying to fudge hardware level access that DirectX anticipates would be challenging from a programming standpoint. Furthermore, Microsoft is not positioning, developing, nor testing Virtual PC as a gaming solution.

All that being said, I don't think you really need a PC emulator to play games on a Mac. A surprising amount of games have been ported to the Mac platform: see http://www.insidemacgames.com/.
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