Don't know if this has been noted, but the engine Old Republic uses is getting a Mac native version first quarter next year. Chances are very good for a Mac version around that time, as The Old Republic is only one of two games right now using that engine.
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I want to play "Star Wars: The Old Republic" on my Mac?
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I bought the game got the discs yesterday. Loaded in all the discs, when it gone done it said Installation Failed. I was running bootcamp Windows XP on a 2008 Macbook Pro
MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Guessing I wouldn't meet specs anyway.
MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Guessing I wouldn't meet specs anyway.
Running SWTOR on my 2010 Macbook Pro 15 inch with Nvidia 330M GT (256MB Vidmem) overclocked to
625/1000/1375, can get it to 650/1000/1475 even but for some strange reason Powermizer kicks in and puts it back to 450 core clock and its stuck until I reset the whole Video driver.
FPS is reasonable and playable even with Anti Aliasing on 2x or 4x. (Have to force this in the SWTOR client_settings.ini.
I would say 25-60fps depending on the environment, everything high except for Bloom and Shadows. (Texture resolution on Low since I only have 256M dedicated vidmem)
Cheers
(Btw, I do think that SWTOR needs a bit of tweaking because even people with very fast PC's have problems with FPS)
625/1000/1375, can get it to 650/1000/1475 even but for some strange reason Powermizer kicks in and puts it back to 450 core clock and its stuck until I reset the whole Video driver.
FPS is reasonable and playable even with Anti Aliasing on 2x or 4x. (Have to force this in the SWTOR client_settings.ini.
I would say 25-60fps depending on the environment, everything high except for Bloom and Shadows. (Texture resolution on Low since I only have 256M dedicated vidmem)
Cheers
(Btw, I do think that SWTOR needs a bit of tweaking because even people with very fast PC's have problems with FPS)
Running SWTOR on my 2010 Macbook Pro 15 inch with Nvidia 330M GT (256MB Vidmem) overclocked to
625/1000/1375, can get it to 650/1000/1475 even but for some strange reason Powermizer kicks in and puts it back to 450 core clock and its stuck until I reset the whole Video driver.
FPS is reasonable and playable even with Anti Aliasing on 2x or 4x. (Have to force this in the SWTOR client_settings.ini.
I would say 25-60fps depending on the environment, everything high except for Bloom and Shadows. (Texture resolution on Low since I only have 256M dedicated vidmem)
Cheers
(Btw, I do think that SWTOR needs a bit of tweaking because even people with very fast PC's have problems with FPS)
How did you overclock it? I have the same model as you do.
Runs great on my iMac 8,1. I am running at my native res with everything on high except for two settings (shadows = low, and whatever is to the left of shadows = medium). Also, bloom is turned off.
I have 4 gigs of ram and the latest Nvidia drivers running on Win7 x32.
I have 4 gigs of ram and the latest Nvidia drivers running on Win7 x32.
I have two questions about this.
I have windows 7 ultimate 64 bit but it isn't genuine. Will i need a genuine copy of windows to play it? I read somewhere that i may need to. If i get the game i will be buying from a store so it will be a genuine copy.
Also i only have 20 gig partitioned for windows with bootcamp. Can i partition windows to have more space or would i have to delete everything? I dont mind deleting all the windows stuff but would like to keep my mac stuff.
Thanks
I have windows 7 ultimate 64 bit but it isn't genuine. Will i need a genuine copy of windows to play it? I read somewhere that i may need to. If i get the game i will be buying from a store so it will be a genuine copy.
Also i only have 20 gig partitioned for windows with bootcamp. Can i partition windows to have more space or would i have to delete everything? I dont mind deleting all the windows stuff but would like to keep my mac stuff.
Thanks
That is "Knights of the Old Republic", released years ago on the original Xbox and PC. This thread is about "The Old Republic", a new MMO.
I will give you the same answer I gave you in the same post you made in the other thread. Why would you even bring up the discussion of bootleg software on these forums. not to mention there is no need to post the same thing in more then one thread.
Can anyone tell me how much space this will take on my hard drive? I looked on the official site and amazon and there is no mention of the storage specifications.
My bootcamp partition is only ~30GB and i didn't realize 7x64 takes so much space!! I only have ~10GB free.
Anyone advice if this will work? Thanks!
My bootcamp partition is only ~30GB and i didn't realize 7x64 takes so much space!! I only have ~10GB free.
Anyone advice if this will work? Thanks!
WOW You'd think that would be specified somewhere on the website under system requirements. I guess I have to redo my bootcamp or just return the game. Probably just going to return and then buy down the road when I would be re-partitioning for something else. I was looking forward to the game, but not worth the trouble.
My 2011 Mac mini (with the dual core 2.5 i5, 8GB RAM, and Radeon 6330M 256MB) can run the game at 1080p with all the settings on low in a very playable frame rate. You're iMac is better specced than the mini so I'm thinking you'll be fine even at medium settings.
does it look any good on the low settings? also what is the texture pop in like?
I have the same model, its running very poorly on my comp. all settings turned to low, and still getting very low fps. Anyone have any ideas? based on the system requirements, my comp should be fine.
First you want to disable Powermizer;
Download NVPMManager and disable that.
Next I used Nvidia Inspector to gently overclock it.
(Note that if you go too high, somehow the clocks revert to fixed performance mode and U cannot change it until you use NVPMManager again and use 'Instant Apply' button
Whose engine is it? If I knew, I've forgotten. I would welcome the chance to play a game like this native Mac.
anyone have any other input on my setup?
anyone using what I'm using.
what would the frame rate be like?
just like some more input before i go out and get it.
Geforce 9400m is going to be the biggest problem. If you run a really low res with all the graphics options way down, it will probably be playable... even if it looks bad. I have heard other people (on swtor forums) saying they were using 9400s and it was terrible though...
with Bootcamp that should run good... you'll probably be able to max it (with shadows disabled) and play fine with 40 or 50 fps at least...
I run through parallels (so a huge slow down there) on a i7 2.2, 8gb ram, 6750 1gb (2 CPUs to the VM, 4gb of ram, and 512mb vram) with Windows 7... 1280x800, all graphics options maxed except bloom and shadows off, and get like 30 to 50 depending where I am. Since running Windows natively instead of parallels will boost you like 5 to 10 times better performance... I'd say your machine should run it great.