Gaming - WARhammer

[ikck]

I hope this will be the correct forum to ask this question? If not, I do apologize.

I will be purchasing a Macbook Pro later this month. I have never been a big PC gamer so I'm not good with what specs are good for a gaming machine. Along with that, I have only played WoW on my iMac.

With that being said, I am looking to play the game Warhammer when it comes out later this year. Of course it will only be released for PC so I will be running boot camp. A few questions:

1. Has anyone had good experience with PC gaming on a Macbook Pro?
2. What can I expect in terms of quality while running through boot camp?

Any advice would be great!

Thanks!

 

[jbaird77]

although I havent gamed on a Mac myself, I am looking forward to it (getting a high-end 17" Macbook Pro later this week)

from what I have seen on YouTube, it does decently, but not the best. Saw a guy play Bioshock on it (8600GTm 256mb) at medium settings and ok resolution and he got 30 fps average.

Orange Box does decently on it. Oblivion does pretty good, saw a guy play it at 1920x1200 at high settings (for the most part) and it only lagged here and there, not too bad

 

[KenAllen07]

I play COD4 on it in high settings with 1440x900, and it frame skips sometimes, but it's good enough to play.

 

[stormbob]

Ive been in the WAR beta for a long time, and it runs fine on MBP

Btw... WAGGHHHH!!!

 

[Skyldig]

Ive been in the WAR beta for a long time, and it runs fine on MBP

Btw... WAGGHHHH!!!

Damn you! (i have one of those 700.000 pending applications... )

... i'm going to buy a MBP for Warhammer Online too
Any previous gaming experiences i'v had with Boot Camp has been great. So far i've only gotten one problem: I need to run windows

 

[ikck]

Ive been in the WAR beta for a long time, and it runs fine on MBP

Btw... WAGGHHHH!!!

Wonderful info! And isn't the Beta running at full blast?

That does make me happy to know that I won't have to buy a PC / PC laptop for the game.

 

[stormbob]

Wonderful info! And isn't the Beta running at full blast?

That does make me happy to know that I won't have to buy a PC / PC laptop for the game.

It is, and i really can't tell you anything since its NDA and stuff. But let me say that it's gonna rock, and you should be very exited

 

[Silver-Fox]

He could have a different macbook pro spec to the one you are getting, what is the spec of the one you are getting?

 

[ikck]

He could have a different macbook pro spec to the one you are getting, what is the spec of the one you are getting?

I'm planning on getting:

Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

17-inch high-resolution widescreen display
2GB memory
160GB hard drive; 7200 rpm
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory
Built-in iSight Camera

I imagine it will run WAR with no problem...

 

[Silver-Fox]

yeah you should be fine, although check the specs of the game