Help with CoD 4 for mac

Drummerman558 · Apr 20, 2009, 03:19 PM

hi, i know there have been alot of threads about Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare already but i am expirencing a problem that is not typical.

I have the game for mac and i have a macbook. It plays ok when i have all the graphics to the lowest they go (although im not sure what auto-alasing or whatever means). However, whenever i look down my sights to aim, everything goes fuzzy, and i can only see vauge figures of people and landscape. everything in the game is still in the same position, just it is out of focus. I suppose this is because of a graphics problem, but i do not know what.

Can anybody tell me why this happens and how to fix it?
Thanks

spinnerlys · Apr 20, 2009, 03:23 PM

My experience with the game (with an iMac and a MBP) is, that this is a feature, like if you really would use a rifle, and focus your eyes on the aim, the rest gets blurred.

Hold your arms like you would have a rifle in the hand, and then try to aim and focus. You'll see, that the surroundings get blurred.

As you have lower graphic settings, the view might get frelled up a bit.

Drummerman558 · Apr 20, 2009, 03:32 PM

no, its not just the outside that gets blurred, the place where i am aiming also gets blurred. I know that this is not supposed to happen, because my friends have it and i have asked them before and this does not happen to them. i also watched videos online of the gameplay, and when people use their sights it does not get blurred.

Consultant · Apr 20, 2009, 03:43 PM

Screenshot would probably help.

Contact the game's support?

spinnerlys · Apr 20, 2009, 03:44 PM

Sorry, I misunderstood then.

I once accidentally played almost full settings with the 9400m, and what you describe, didn't happen.

have you tried different anti-alias settings?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing

Drummerman558 · Apr 20, 2009, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spinnerlys

Sorry, I misunderstood then.

I once accidentally played almost full settings with the 9400m, and what you describe, didn't happen.

have you tried different anti-alias settings?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing

Yea ill try messing around with that i guess. Im not sure what my graphics card is. How do i figure that out if i dont remember it?

spinnerlys · Apr 20, 2009, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drummerman558

Yea ill try messing around with that i guess. Im not sure what my graphics card is. How do i figure that out if i dont remember it?

If you have the new Unibody MacBook, you have the Nvidia 9400M, if you have the older White MB, you have either the GMA950 or GMA 3100 or so (from 11/2007 onwards).

Also you can look into the System Profiler (Spotlight or

> About This Mac > More Info...).

Drummerman558 · Apr 20, 2009, 04:17 PM

ok thanks thats really helpful. I have the older macbook. unfortunately i will not be able to axcess my macbook untill thursday.. so we will see how things work out then. im not even sure if my computer meets the system requirments, i dont know about all that computer stuff really. But the worker at the mac store said that the game should work for my computer if i set it to the low graphic settings, and this thing is happining. so, ill play around with it a little more.

Thanks for your help

Drummerman558 · Apr 24, 2009, 02:47 PM

hello again, umm.. yea, i tried changing the auto-aliasing settings and the blurred vision still happened. I have pretty much tried changing every graphic option and this weird problem still happens.

Anyone else any ideas?

Illicit · Apr 24, 2009, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drummerman558

hello again, umm.. yea, i tried changing the auto-aliasing settings and the blurred vision still happened. I have pretty much tried changing every graphic option and this weird problem still happens.

Anyone else any ideas?

I suggest running it in BootCamp instead. see if that helps.

Drummerman558 · Apr 24, 2009, 04:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Illicit

I suggest running it in BootCamp instead. see if that helps.

ok, is it possible to run a mac game on boot camp? i know its used for windows games, and i have a mac dvd version of the game, so is this possible?

Rodus · Apr 24, 2009, 05:21 PM

If you have the older MacBook then you've probably got either the Intel Gma 950 or 3100, as antialiasing will give you a performance hit on new cards you really don't want to enable it with the Intel integrated chipsets as they are piss poor performers. Also, if you have on of these chipsets then the guy at the Mac store was wrong.
From Aspyrs site

Quote:

Video Card (ATI): Radeon X1600
Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX 7300
Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported.

You cannot run a Mac game in Bootcamp, you need the PC version and your GPU is still going to be the weak link.

Drummerman558 · Apr 25, 2009, 07:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rodus

If you have the older MacBook then you've probably got either the Intel Gma 950 or 3100, as antialiasing will give you a performance hit on new cards you really don't want to enable it with the Intel integrated chipsets as they are piss poor performers. Also, if you have on of these chipsets then the guy at the Mac store was wrong.
From Aspyrs site

You cannot run a Mac game in Bootcamp, you need the PC version and your GPU is still going to be the weak link.

ok thanks, that clears things up a bit. I guess i can't really do anything but buy a new computer, but thats not going to happen anytime soon. Thanks for your help

lllolRUS · May 9, 2013, 04:52 AM

I know how to fix it. You must have my settings becouse i have intel gma x3100 too.

Apr 20, 2009, 03:19 PM	#1
Drummerman558 macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2009	Help with CoD 4 for mac hi, i know there have been alot of threads about Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare already but i am expirencing a problem that is not typical. I have the game for mac and i have a macbook. It plays ok when i have all the graphics to the lowest they go (although im not sure what auto-alasing or whatever means). However, whenever i look down my sights to aim, everything goes fuzzy, and i can only see vauge figures of people and landscape. everything in the game is still in the same position, just it is out of focus. I suppose this is because of a graphics problem, but i do not know what. Can anybody tell me why this happens and how to fix it? Thanks
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Apr 20, 2009, 03:23 PM	#2
spinnerlys Guest Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: forlod bygningen	My experience with the game (with an iMac and a MBP) is, that this is a feature, like if you really would use a rifle, and focus your eyes on the aim, the rest gets blurred. Hold your arms like you would have a rifle in the hand, and then try to aim and focus. You'll see, that the surroundings get blurred. As you have lower graphic settings, the view might get frelled up a bit.
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Apr 20, 2009, 03:32 PM	#3
Drummerman558 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2009	no, its not just the outside that gets blurred, the place where i am aiming also gets blurred. I know that this is not supposed to happen, because my friends have it and i have asked them before and this does not happen to them. i also watched videos online of the gameplay, and when people use their sights it does not get blurred.
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Apr 20, 2009, 03:44 PM	#5
spinnerlys Guest Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: forlod bygningen	Sorry, I misunderstood then. I once accidentally played almost full settings with the 9400m, and what you describe, didn't happen. have you tried different anti-alias settings? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing
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Apr 20, 2009, 04:17 PM	#8
Drummerman558 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2009	ok thanks thats really helpful. I have the older macbook. unfortunately i will not be able to axcess my macbook untill thursday.. so we will see how things work out then. im not even sure if my computer meets the system requirments, i dont know about all that computer stuff really. But the worker at the mac store said that the game should work for my computer if i set it to the low graphic settings, and this thing is happining. so, ill play around with it a little more. Thanks for your help
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Apr 24, 2009, 02:47 PM	#9
Drummerman558 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2009	hello again, umm.. yea, i tried changing the auto-aliasing settings and the blurred vision still happened. I have pretty much tried changing every graphic option and this weird problem still happens. Anyone else any ideas?
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