Just want to know before I buy if i can run SWTOR on my mac. its mid 2008 and specs are
2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRRAM
ATI HD Radeon 2600 256 MB vram
if not please cn anyone advise whats need to improve
Just want to know before I buy if i can run SWTOR on my mac. its mid 2008 and specs are
2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRRAM
ATI HD Radeon 2600 256 MB vram
if not please cn anyone advise whats need to improve
So my friends are asking me to join them in SWTOR. I have the following 3 Macs, and wondering which one is the best to use.
- MacBook Pro (Mid-2007) C2D 2.4GHz with 4GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM.
- iMac (Early 2009) C2D 2.66GHz with 8GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory.
- MacBook Air (Mid-2011) Core i5 with 4GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory.
Reading this thread, it seems the best way is to use BootCamp.
Thanks.
I had my 2007 MacBook Pro checked at the Genius Bar, where they ran that GPU test, and it came out fine. I'm hoping that since it has not failed in the last 5 years, it is not part of that bad batch of GPU's.while theoretically the 8600M is the fastest performing GPU there... being that those models have seriously bad problems of dying, i wouldn't game on it. The Geforce 9400 is a bit too slow. The Intel HD 3000 will run it better.
I had my 2007 MacBook Pro checked at the Genius Bar, where they ran that GPU test, and it came out fine. I'm hoping that since it has not failed in the last 5 years, it is not part of that bad batch of GPU's.
So assuming the MacBook Pro is good, you think it is the best one to run the game? Is performanance more dependent on the CPU or the GPU?
Thanks for your reply.
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I successfully have the game running. I have a 13" MBA with 128gb. I partitioned 50gb for Win 7 Home Premium and copied my SWTOR folder from external to laptop. I'm running the game on low settings and it's perfectly fine.
Hey I tried seeing if I could PM about this, but apparently I can't. So I sent you a friend request...
Anyways, it seems you and I have the same macbook air. The 13 default. 128 gb, hd3000?
I am a noob when it comes to running bootcamp and it seems what you did is the best way to maximize performance on SWTOR. Right now, I'm running parallels and I get about 20 FPS on average, in war zones I get a crawling 0-10 FPS.
I want to run bootcamp and partition my hard drive. What do I need for my macbook air to do this? When I run boot camp assistant it says I need a USB flash drive...
Also, I was wondering what FPS are you getting on your boot camp partition?
Hello,
Sorry if this was already addressed in previous posts, but I was wondering how people found performance to be since TOR came out.
I have an early 2011 MBP, quad core 2.2 (6750 HD) and 8 GB 1600 MHZ.
I use Windows 7 via Parallels occasionally for some apps for school and I was wondering how much difference people noticed in performance between Parallels and Bootcamp. I'd prefer not to install Windows natively, and I don't mind having graphics settings down when playing the game if I stick to Parallels. Thanks for the help.
The performance cost is too extreme. Not to mention all sorts of glitches and hang ups that exist in lots of parallels apps. Don't do it. Go natively and you will see.
and all 8600M GPUs are bad, no matter what Apple tells you, or what "tests" they run. They are ticking time bombs.
I absolutely grew to hate this game with a passion just by playing it and listening to Bioware devs.
I loved the game, right up until it went free to play, and they started spamming everything with the store...that and the horrible horrible trolls and "gold" farmers that all flocked in once the paywall dropped.
Not since the Starwars Galaxies NGE upgrade has a game been so royally fubared