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Great Info to have
I've been following this thread pretty closely...
Having just switched from a PC to iMac (leopard, etc..) am about to try and install bootcamp to run my copy of COD2 and purchase COD4. Mea Culpa if this is hijacking, not my intent, but are there "clans" / "player groups" for COD2+Cod4 on the Mac??? I've had a helluva time finding info, as everything seems scattered far and wide. I'm trying to find out if there's enough of a community playing these games to develop a Mac Centric area on our Forums for support for Mac users playing COD2 and COD4. A recent poll suggested that I'm one of very few users on our forums using a Mac. Can anyone help point me in the direction I'm looking, or should I just start amassing info and build a forum within my existing players group?
Forgive me if this is hijacking, just drop me a PM and I'll delete.
Regards and thanks in Advance,
{FKR}Shoveller
I've been following this thread pretty closely...
Having just switched from a PC to iMac (leopard, etc..) am about to try and install bootcamp to run my copy of COD2 and purchase COD4. Mea Culpa if this is hijacking, not my intent, but are there "clans" / "player groups" for COD2+Cod4 on the Mac??? I've had a helluva time finding info, as everything seems scattered far and wide. I'm trying to find out if there's enough of a community playing these games to develop a Mac Centric area on our Forums for support for Mac users playing COD2 and COD4. A recent poll suggested that I'm one of very few users on our forums using a Mac. Can anyone help point me in the direction I'm looking, or should I just start amassing info and build a forum within my existing players group?
Forgive me if this is hijacking, just drop me a PM and I'll delete.
Regards and thanks in Advance,
{FKR}Shoveller
I gave up on all Mac gaming a while ago. It's to much to have to boot into Windows every time I want to play. That's why I built myself a gaming pc, which is already having problems by the way 
freakin... im just gonna wait till games release on OSX. i dont want the trouble of installing XP and bootcamp...
Everybody's different. The boot times to go from Windows to OSX and vice versa aren't a big deal to me and other than paying the $110 for Windows XP, the installation wasn't a big hassle. COD4 is a great game and it runs great on a Mac running Windows.
There may be Mac-centric clans or servers amongst the 9000+ COD4 servers out there, but there's no point IMHO, since it's actually running Windows and works just like everybody else's machines. No doubt IW will release COD4 on the Mac someday, but that concept is problematic. I run COD2 OSX version on my Mac. That's also a great game (COD4 is better IMHO) but upgrade patches for COD2 are released more slowly for Macs than they are for Windows. The result is that you now have most of the servers running 1.4 while Macs are all running 1.3 since 1.4 hasn't been released for the Mac yet, and now the Macs can't connect to the new-patch servers. Meaning that if your favorite COD2 server gets patched, you won't be able to connect to it with your Mac until the new version finally gets released for OSX. You may pull up the Master Server from your Mac and find only a few servers running the version of COD you're using, while the current-patch PC version has thousands.
(note: I haven't checked lately about the current patch status. They may have caught up, same patch for both systems currently, but the cycle will repeat, with Macs always being behind PC's).
There may be Mac-centric clans or servers amongst the 9000+ COD4 servers out there, but there's no point IMHO, since it's actually running Windows and works just like everybody else's machines. No doubt IW will release COD4 on the Mac someday, but that concept is problematic. I run COD2 OSX version on my Mac. That's also a great game (COD4 is better IMHO) but upgrade patches for COD2 are released more slowly for Macs than they are for Windows. The result is that you now have most of the servers running 1.4 while Macs are all running 1.3 since 1.4 hasn't been released for the Mac yet, and now the Macs can't connect to the new-patch servers. Meaning that if your favorite COD2 server gets patched, you won't be able to connect to it with your Mac until the new version finally gets released for OSX. You may pull up the Master Server from your Mac and find only a few servers running the version of COD you're using, while the current-patch PC version has thousands.
(note: I haven't checked lately about the current patch status. They may have caught up, same patch for both systems currently, but the cycle will repeat, with Macs always being behind PC's).
personally, i don't mind the reboot. it's a clean XP SP2 install with just games on it, so it boots fairly quickly. and rebooting into Leopard is less than 25 seconds for the most part.
but anyone gaming in XP should DEFINITELY update their ATI drivers (while in Windows of course). the default bootcamp drivers are really old and pretty wimpy. i got an average of 25%-40% improvement in framerates across the board (tested in COD4, Hellgate London, and World in Conflict). this is on a 20inch aluminum iMac with HD2600 XT.
the trick is that you have to install the drivers maually. download the latest driver off the ATI site and start the executable. it'll walk you through it and may say that it's installed but it's not. you have to go to the device manager and update it manually by hitting "update driver" and then saying "have disk" when you see that button. direct it to the .inf file in the ati/support/...etc and then hit "have disk" again. then you'll see this huge list of video cards. pick out the HD2600 XT and it'll install. reboot, and you're good to go.
but anyone gaming in XP should DEFINITELY update their ATI drivers (while in Windows of course). the default bootcamp drivers are really old and pretty wimpy. i got an average of 25%-40% improvement in framerates across the board (tested in COD4, Hellgate London, and World in Conflict). this is on a 20inch aluminum iMac with HD2600 XT.
the trick is that you have to install the drivers maually. download the latest driver off the ATI site and start the executable. it'll walk you through it and may say that it's installed but it's not. you have to go to the device manager and update it manually by hitting "update driver" and then saying "have disk" when you see that button. direct it to the .inf file in the ati/support/...etc and then hit "have disk" again. then you'll see this huge list of video cards. pick out the HD2600 XT and it'll install. reboot, and you're good to go.
I've played it on the 360--great game! What I can't believe is why people persist in being played by the GPU and computer game manufacturers. It's so much simpler to buy a console that *will* play whatever's made for it for at least two or three years, no questions, no exceptions. And you can easily exceed the price of a modern console with a new graphics card--but...it's flat out crazy to me that people would persist in playing the upgrade/graphics game on their desktops and laptops. Oh well. In the meantime, the rest of us will simply pop our games into our consoles without checking anything beyond the facts that the logos match, press the power buttons, and get to playing. No installation, no uninstallation, no patches, no downloads, no compatibility checks, no keyboards, no nonsense. They "just work"! :^)
for the most part you're right on (i've got an Xbox 360 myself). but having played both COD4 on my iMac and on the 360 (on a 720p HDTV), the graphics on the iMac is far and away better and more realistic. plus, keyboard/mouse is so much more precise. but yeah, the 360 has a nice simplicity to working it.
To each their own. Personally, I'd much rather use a keyboard/mouse for accuracy and greater challenge, and I can't understand why anyone would want to play an FPS on a console. I don't consider the 'upgrade/graphics game' to be a hassle at all. That doesn't make console gaming wrong, or "crazy", it just means that I don't understand it. I'm not willing to make a judgement about console gamers though. As I said...each to their own. Sounds like you're just as puzzled on the other side.
Yeah but we get the better experience anyways
and some of us like doing more with our games than just playing them... tweaking is fun!But like the poster above me said, to each his own.
To buy! & What to buy!
I have a 5 year old Dell Inspiron 8200 (don't heckle me just yet) and I need to upgrade to something...shall we say...better! I've narrowed my search down to either a Macbook or MacbookPro. My use is moderate in the area of emails, web, word doc's and finanical programs but I also use it for gamming, specifically COD 2. My question is, I have no doubt that the Macbook can suite me fine for my normal usage but what about running COD 2 on it? should I opt for the MacbookPro 2.2Ghz with 4 MB SDRAM?
I am planning on partitioning the HD using Bootcamp (50/50) and running xp on one side with COD. I assume this would be sufficient.....
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
I have a 5 year old Dell Inspiron 8200 (don't heckle me just yet) and I need to upgrade to something...shall we say...better! I've narrowed my search down to either a Macbook or MacbookPro. My use is moderate in the area of emails, web, word doc's and finanical programs but I also use it for gamming, specifically COD 2. My question is, I have no doubt that the Macbook can suite me fine for my normal usage but what about running COD 2 on it? should I opt for the MacbookPro 2.2Ghz with 4 MB SDRAM?
I am planning on partitioning the HD using Bootcamp (50/50) and running xp on one side with COD. I assume this would be sufficient.....
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
pay the extra bucks for the macbook pro. even an old game like COD2 will have a hard time on a macbook. the integrated graphics just aren't that good. although i don't have much experience with the new X3100 ones (mine is the old school macbook core duo with the 950), any 3d game is going to suffer horribly on a macbook and you'll end up with a sub-par gaming experiece that you'll always feel is kinda lame.
macbook pro is also the faster santa rosa chipset (800 mhz bus as opposed to 667 mhz), LED power-saving screen. all in all, well worth the 500 bucks more you're paying. oh, and don't pay for the 4gb from apple. it's a huge rip off. just buy the macbook pro with the standard RAM and order up two 2gb sticks from newegg or tigerdirect and install them yourself. it's easy.
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What he said.
But also if you get the itch to play anything newer, you will need the better graphics in the pro version. Bioshock, Quake Wars, COD4, Crysis are probably not going to be pretty. There's also screen size, the 13.3 is not enough for me.
What he said.
But also if you get the itch to play anything newer, you will need the better graphics in the pro version. Bioshock, Quake Wars, COD4, Crysis are probably not going to be pretty. There's also screen size, the 13.3 is not enough for me.
External drive for Boot Camp/Any Virus security help?
I installed XP a few weeks ago on my new iMac 2.8ghz and it works like a charm. Bootcamp setup was cake. I used my external drive for the windows install and bought a second one for all my backups. both drives are 500gb. I'm gaming now on my Mac with Windows games (COD4, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Bio-Shock) and the 24" monitor is a monster. I don't know what they're talking about when they complain about re-boot time. it's as fast as rebooting your Mac normally.
As I am a lifelong Mac user and have never had to worry about this, can someone advise me about anti-virus software? Do I have to pay for it every year like someone told me recently, or are there FREE alternatives? all I do on the XP side is game. My only downloads on the XP side are patches and updates for the games.
I installed XP a few weeks ago on my new iMac 2.8ghz and it works like a charm. Bootcamp setup was cake. I used my external drive for the windows install and bought a second one for all my backups. both drives are 500gb. I'm gaming now on my Mac with Windows games (COD4, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Bio-Shock) and the 24" monitor is a monster. I don't know what they're talking about when they complain about re-boot time. it's as fast as rebooting your Mac normally.
As I am a lifelong Mac user and have never had to worry about this, can someone advise me about anti-virus software? Do I have to pay for it every year like someone told me recently, or are there FREE alternatives? all I do on the XP side is game. My only downloads on the XP side are patches and updates for the games.
No matter what you need some protection, even if all you do is game. Sooner or later you may use XP to navigate to a site to download a patch for your game, a mod, read a review, receive email from a fellow gamer etc.,etc. All possible ways of getting something nasty on your computer. Even if you don't do any financial stuff on your Windows partition a virus or spyware will slow your system down, which means it will slow your games down.
IMHO, the free stuff is ok and may be sufficient if you are disciplined enough to only game in windows. In my experience the free stuff is not always on par with paid software, but again it may be suitable for your needs and budget. Make sure its a reputable developer, there are some scams that masquerade as anti-virus or anti-spyware software. Look at reviews, you may want to start here with pcworld's list of free security programs:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133631-page,1/article.html
good luck.
Thanks for the input. I've managed to get a small section of our forums devoted to running COD4 on Intel MACS. I think this is really where we're going to focus as there's no word on the streets yet on anyone bringing COD4 to MAC. My hope is to build a reference area mainly for those trying to get COD4 up and running via bootcamp on their machines, and related trouble shooting etc. More and more people are eyeing the switch on account of the option for dual operating systems, and while there's not a huge demand (relatively speaking) I'm hoping we might be able to help a few others get the game running on their MACS. I really found I had to jump all over a variety of forums to find the info I need to get the game and related programs up and running. My hope is to make this a one-stop-shop to get people up and running quickly so they can start playing ASAP. We only got it set up tonight, but will be putting effort in getting all the right info there. Any input suggestions etc would be welcomed.
I have had some trouble and I was wondering if anybody could help me out. I installed Vista on my iMac ALU 2.4 ghz via bootcamp. This was for the sole reason to play the game of COD4. When I loaded it up, it gave me an error message saying DirectX has some unrecoverable error or something along those horrific lines. I downloaded DirectX 10. I also downloaded the ATI Radeon 2600 pro driver. Does anybody have any idea? If so, could you shed some light on my very dark dark world
Going to buy COD4 for my PS3...its good for games and plays my hi def
DVD's-really not expensive given all it does.
But WHEN Apple optical drives become blu-ray capable ,wow!
DVD's-really not expensive given all it does.
But WHEN Apple optical drives become blu-ray capable ,wow!
I have had some trouble and I was wondering if anybody could help me out. I installed Vista on my iMac ALU 2.4 ghz via bootcamp. This was for the sole reason to play the game of COD4. When I loaded it up, it gave me an error message saying DirectX has some unrecoverable error or something along those horrific lines. I downloaded DirectX 10. I also downloaded the ATI Radeon 2600 pro driver. Does anybody have any idea? If so, could you shed some light on my very dark dark world
...have you tried using the Vista instal disc to repair in case that's the source of the problem?
I don't know how I would use the Vista Disc to repair. When I slide it in, it wants to install. I'm fairly retarded when it comes to windows.
I run at the a same resolution (1680x1050) on my 7900GS in my PC. i have all of the features turned up, but keep the AA at 2x. i tried playing with the AA completely off, but i didnt notice any slowups. the x1900 should have no problem with it as well.