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Black Ops On your mac... Whos getting It?

Got it and loving it so far. I am a big fan of World at War but could just not get into MW2. MW2 just seemed like an xbox game ported to PC and it always felt like I had tunnel vision, not to mention the server aspect was lousy. This is the best of both worlds and I no longer feel like I have tunnel vision.

I am playing on a Mid-2010 iMac i7 2.93 and performance at 1920 x 1080 with the default settings is super fast and responsive. Native 2560 x 1440 is playable but I would not suggest this setting for online play.

troutspinner
 
Had better luck installing it today.

Great game so far (played about an hour)!
Runs flawless on my machine on 2560x1600 with all details maxed out except for AA.
 
Anyone play this on Xbox?

It's not bad, not even close to MW2, but still good.

Does anyone else notice how terrible the sound fx are. My lil feets make louder noise on my character then half the guns, it's bizarre, very flat.

Not sure if it's the same on the mac version.
 
How are you running it? Bootcamp, VM ware, etc.

Check out the reviews on machinima respawn for in depth reviews/changes.

I'm surprised someone likes it better than MW2, since the general consensus is that MW2 sucks for multiplayer. Black Ops is supposedly less noob friendly but more balanced in the long run. Steeper learning curve, but a better end product.
 
Do yourself a favor do not buy this game yet! I have a mac pro, 8-core 2.26ghz, 8gb ram, Radeon HD 512mb gpu, and it honestly runs awful. Frame rates is unbearable. I am running it in Windows 7 on Bootcamp. If my system isn't able to run it smoothly, I doubt there are too many out there that are. Unless there are some patches coming down the pipeline. Which I don't foresee helping the awful frame rate that much. When there is heavy battle you cannot do anything but eat bullets and die. I played MW2 on my PS3 and have recently moved across the world having to sacrifice the PS3 in the moving process. Going from that system to playing on a computer is the worst gaming experience I have had yet. I was sooo excited to play this game. Again, unless your system is far superior to mine, do not buy!
 
denied55 said:
Do yourself a favor do not buy this game yet! I have a mac pro, 8-core 2.26ghz, 8gb ram, Radeon HD 512mb gpu, and it honestly runs awful. Frame rates is unbearable. I am running it in Windows 7 on Bootcamp.
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That's odd.
I've got basically the same system and as I mentioned earlier it runs on 2560x1600 with all details on max (except for AA).

2.26GHz 8-core, 12GB Ram, Radeon 4870 with Win7 Pro 64bit. It runs just as smooth as MW or MW2.
 
Has anyone tried it in the 2010 MBP 2,4GHz model?

MW2 runs in 1280x800 at highest setting, without AA..based on youtube videos. I wonder how Black Ops would run.
 
It is what it is ... and what everyone should expect by now: a console game sloppily ported to PC so that even high-end PC's 5-10x more powerful than a XBOX360 have worse performance than the console. Optimization and online performance tell you that they did an absolute crappy job testing for the PC as well ...

In terms of content - another retread of the same stuff in a new setting. Loads of excitement and tense action, too much scripted nonsense and absolutely stupid NPC's on both sides.

Better than Medal of Honor (not hard) ... but is this *really* the best that developers have to offer at this point? We are still regressing from 2004 ...
 
txa1265 said:
It is what it is ... and what everyone should expect by now: a console game sloppily ported to PC so that even high-end PC's 5-10x more powerful than a XBOX360 have worse performance than the console. Optimization and online performance tell you that they did an absolute crappy job testing for the PC as well ...
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I wouldn't say that much. some people like Transporteur aren't having any problems (playing at more that 1080p with maxed settings on his imac) ...It does suck that there are these issues when people payed for a fully working game and a lot of them didn't get that. Should be straitened out shortly and thats when Ill buy it haha
 
skatementle said:
I wouldn't say that much. some people like Transporteur aren't having any problems (playing at more that 1080p with maxed settings on his imac) ...It does suck that there are these issues when people payed for a fully working game and a lot of them didn't get that. Should be straitened out shortly and thats when Ill buy it haha
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They're definitely working on it, there have been two updates so far (1 for SP and 1 for MP). Hopefully we get updates to solve the stuttering problems soon.
 
I hate this on-going struggle to figure out if a game is going to work on my Mac... or not. I have enough to worry about with fluoride in my water... MSG's... genetically modified organisms... you get the picture. But I HATE PCs... and think Bill Gates is Satan. But I love to game on a computer more than I hate PCs and Bill Gates... COMBINED! I'll wait for the patches before I buy Black Ops... or I may have to buy a PC just for gaming. It's cheaper than a new graphics card for a mac.

But if they don't fix it with patches... maybe they should call the game Black Oops!
 
I play on PC, compared to MW2 the graphics are worse (DX9 only), the multiplayer lags, some kills dont make any sense, single player lacks depth and is just about killing 1000 guys per minute that respawn over and over at the same place, AI is dumb. To me this looks like a mod for COD4, that's all.
I have a quadcore at 4ghz and I can see cpu utilization percentages I have never seen in any other game, considering how ugly the game is you can only imagine how badly optimized it's code is.

It's fun, but for sure besides the dedicated server aspect, it has nothing on MW2. Definitely a game made just to cash on the MW2 popularity.
 
troutspinner said:
Got it and loving it so far. I am a big fan of World at War but could just not get into MW2. MW2 just seemed like an xbox game ported to PC and it always felt like I had tunnel vision, not to mention the server aspect was lousy. This is the best of both worlds and I no longer feel like I have tunnel vision.

I am playing on a Mid-2010 iMac i7 2.93 and performance at 1920 x 1080 with the default settings is super fast and responsive. Native 2560 x 1440 is playable but I would not suggest this setting for online play.

troutspinner
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90% of games today are targeted for console box first. that's why game is come out for console first. PC version is later. it's really bad to make that way. black ops, MW2 are the same. they are just ported to PC after console. honestly, Black ops is terrible to play on PC. graphic, playthrough is not stable. texture is just bad. I am glad not to buy this crap.
 
I got it...It plays pretty good no big problems. i play at 1200x800 and high settings no shadows nobullet impact textures auto. playes at 30 average sometimes it does dip to the 20s but im sure the next patch wil fix that. I enjoy that game and i really only bought it for the multiplayer im saving the campaign for when i beat the other games ihave.
 
i've been sticking to the console version for now... I need a new GFX card to support it, I think
 
actually the fps do dip quite low sometimes 20fps even 16 for a second when theres smoke and water. the jungle level is the worse. I tested on 800x600 and it ran sick but idont like playing at that res. it never went under 30 usually like 45fps. ive been playing at 1200x800 and it an get to like 20 sometimes most the time 29 on average. on(high)
 
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