This is just a rant, so if you don't have too much time on your hands you probably wouldn't want to take the time to read...
I have a Rev. A MacBook, which has Intel GMA950 built-in graphics. It's awesome, BUT... Age of Empires 3 looks plain ugly on it. >_<
I got the MacBook during June last year, prior to that I had access to a PC with ATi Radeon 9200SE graphics. While I still used the PC, I downloaded the trial version of AoE 3 and played it. I thought, wow, beautiful. It was a fun game too. So after I got my Mac, I waited for the release of a Mac version of the game, which I got after it came out.
Now, I have been playing it happily for a few months, and while it doesn't look gorgeous, I accepted that as a natural problem with playing the game on a laptop with integrated graphics. The game runs quite snappily too, especially with my new 2GB RAM and all. I was almost content, until I saw this image...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AOE3-comparison-1.jpg
The image demonstrates the difference between the different graphics quality settings of AoE, the left side also happens to be the best it can look on a Mac with GMA950. It's just kind of frustrating to see how nice the game can actually look, and to see how poor it looks on my screen.
Oh well. Everyone including me knew integrated graphics aren't designed for gaming, so I guess I'll just have to accept the ugliness. </rant>
wctaiwan
I have a Rev. A MacBook, which has Intel GMA950 built-in graphics. It's awesome, BUT... Age of Empires 3 looks plain ugly on it. >_<
I got the MacBook during June last year, prior to that I had access to a PC with ATi Radeon 9200SE graphics. While I still used the PC, I downloaded the trial version of AoE 3 and played it. I thought, wow, beautiful. It was a fun game too. So after I got my Mac, I waited for the release of a Mac version of the game, which I got after it came out.
Now, I have been playing it happily for a few months, and while it doesn't look gorgeous, I accepted that as a natural problem with playing the game on a laptop with integrated graphics. The game runs quite snappily too, especially with my new 2GB RAM and all. I was almost content, until I saw this image...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AOE3-comparison-1.jpg
The image demonstrates the difference between the different graphics quality settings of AoE, the left side also happens to be the best it can look on a Mac with GMA950. It's just kind of frustrating to see how nice the game can actually look, and to see how poor it looks on my screen.
Oh well. Everyone including me knew integrated graphics aren't designed for gaming, so I guess I'll just have to accept the ugliness. </rant>
wctaiwan
