[Gaming on old Mac] I ask for some advice.

[Retromac2008]

Macbook Air late 2008

Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz
9400m
2gb Ram
120gb ssd

OSX 10.11 El Capitan

This mac seems old but it s brand new and faster than the first day i bought it.


I don t use it for gaming and of course it s terrible in this field (9400m).




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I found i can t play Diablo 3 - Heroes of the storm under macosx. These games are too heavy and new.

Can you give me some advice on good games for my 9400m ?

half life 2 should be good and doom 3 too!

 

[BrettApple]

Coming from a Late 2008 MacBook with the 9400m I've found a few games that worked pretty well. I primarily do console gaming (PS2 primarily, also PS3/4, 360, N64, etc.) but I liked having something to do on the go.

This list is what I used under Boot Camp with Windows 7 X64, keep in mind my MacBook has more power than the Air with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo and 8GB of RAM along with an SSD. But it has the same base GPU.

Half Life 2 along with episode 1 & 2 run well
Portal 1 and 2 ran just like HL2
Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (ran this in OS X, even better in Windows). Beat the whole game on my MacBook.
Burnout Paradise
Guitar Hero 3 (yes they had a PC/Mac version)
Emulators (N64/PS1/NES/SNES/Genesis etc. generally work well and don't need much power)
F.E.A.R 1
Need for Speed Most Wanted and Carbon did pretty well, 1024x768 is default res but there are patches for widescreen.
Flat Out 2 (Mac app store version). May not work well with newer OS X versions from what I've seen.

That's about all I played, most will run with medium settings. Burnout Paradise would run at 1280x800 at 30fps or so and it's a fun racer, that and the Valve games are what I played the most.

 

[Retromac2008]

Coming from a Late 2008 MacBook with the 9400m I've found a few games that worked pretty well. I primarily do console gaming (PS2 primarily, also PS3/4, 360, N64, etc.) but I liked having something to do on the go.

This list is what I used under Boot Camp with Windows 7 X64, keep in mind my MacBook has more power than the Air with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo and 8GB of RAM along with an SSD. But it has the same base GPU.

Half Life 2 along with episode 1 & 2 run well
Portal 1 and 2 ran just like HL2
Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (ran this in OS X, even better in Windows). Beat the whole game on my MacBook.
Burnout Paradise
Guitar Hero 3 (yes they had a PC/Mac version)
Emulators (N64/PS1/NES/SNES/Genesis etc. generally work well and don't need much power)
F.E.A.R 1
Need for Speed Most Wanted and Carbon did pretty well, 1024x768 is default res but there are patches for widescreen.
Flat Out 2 (Mac app store version). May not work well with newer OS X versions from what I've seen.

That's about all I played, most will run with medium settings. Burnout Paradise would run at 1280x800 at 30fps or so and it's a fun racer, that and the Valve games are what I played the most.

wow! so fast!
You played a lot of beautiful games with your mac
tnx, im gonna try instant:

- Half Life 2
- Emulators
- need for speed Carbon
- Flatout 2

 

[Retromac2008]

hi!
in the next days i m going to install bootcamp for the first time.

i m going to try under windows 10 Diablo3 and Hots too

if someone with the same old gpu (9400m) is interested i ll write here if they re playable!

 

[ApolloBoy]

Good luck, especially considering your system only has 2 GB of RAM and the 9400M is an integrated GPU.

 

[SSD-GUY]

Unreal Tournament 2004. Native Mac Game. Doesn't need much in terms of specs.

THE original first person shooter. Many games today use the unreal engine.

 

[Retromac2008]

Good luck, especially considering your system only has 2 GB of RAM and the 9400M is an integrated GPU.

tnx

Unreal Tournament 2004. Native Mac Game. Doesn't need much in terms of specs.

THE original first person shooter. Many games today use the unreal engine.

yes, i think q3 arena and ut 2003 are still the only real fast competitive fps multiplayer games.

 

[Retromac2008]

I tried Diablo 3 and HoTS under Windows 10 and ... not playable the same

older games are perfect