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Guitar Hero III Capability

Thank you from us too, TheSpaz! We had it working perfectly until I downloaded Frets on Fire and the pref360 driver and then I couldn't figure out how to delete the driver.

I wish I could help getting GH3 to work better on your Mac - it seems to work fine on our iMac. Good luck.
 
annmte said:
Thank you from us too, TheSpaz! We had it working perfectly until I downloaded Frets on Fire and the pref360 driver and then I couldn't figure out how to delete the driver.

I wish I could help getting GH3 to work better on your Mac - it seems to work fine on our iMac. Good luck.
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What is "work's fine"? Are you playing on Easy or Medium? Do you know what framerate you are getting? The reason I ask is because, just because it may seem fine enough to play on Easy or Medium doesn't mean it's fine enough to play on Hard or Expert while the fretboard is flying at you... especially when I use HyperSpeed on the 3rd setting. I can play so much easier and everything is really smooth on my PlayStation 2 but, on the computer, it's not tolerable... it's unplayable for me on the computer.... I can kick butt on the TV but, on the computer, I suck... I think there's a problem there.
 
Ok, so i already bought the pc version of the game for my desktop, but I want to play this on my mbp. Just need a straight answer, will bootcamp run the game? Do I need to update my graphics card drivers?
 
My kids have been playing on Expert and Hard and having no problems at all... I don't know how to find out framerate - if you let me know how to do it, I'll tell you. We haven't changed any of the defaults - lags or removed crowd or anything else... maybe because we're on an iMac instead of a Macbook?

Ann
 
annmte said:
My kids have been playing on Expert and Hard and having no problems at all... I don't know how to find out framerate - if you let me know how to do it, I'll tell you. We haven't changed any of the defaults - lags or removed crowd or anything else... maybe because we're on an iMac instead of a Macbook?

Ann
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Maybe your video card is more supported or something because I'm running a Mac Pro with 256MB of VRAM and 5GB of RAM and I can't even imagine playing with the crowd on... let alone full resolution (native screen res).
 
Ive been playing for a few days. Its not as smooth as running on a game console obviously. You miss some notes that youi wouldnt otherwise. But its really fun. Medium is pretty hard on this.
 
thechidz said:
Ive been playing for a few days. Its not as smooth as running on a game console obviously. You miss some notes that youi wouldnt otherwise. But its really fun. Medium is pretty hard on this.
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I was really looking forward to playing online because the PS2 cannot do that but, if you've already got the console version of the game... I would suggest not wasting your money on the PC/Mac version... the low framerates make the game suck. I was actually thinking about dropping $500 on a new video card but, then I thought... wow, $500 to get a game to work correctly is a lot of money when I can just easily play it on my TV with perfect smoothness and no stutters.... so that's where I'm at. I don't play enough video game to justify upgrading my GeForce 7300 just yet.

Are there any other advantages of upgrading from a 256MB GeForce 7300 to an ATI X1600 512MB?
 
Has anyone played this using the SR MBP via Bootcamp yet (with XP)? Or is the Mac version even playable with a MBP?

I've seen a post above using Parallels (so obviously the PC version was used), but running CPU/GPU intensive games via Parallels is not recommended.
 
Spliff said:
Has anyone played this using the SR MBP via Bootcamp yet (with XP)? Or is the Mac version even playable with a MBP?

I've seen a post above using Parallels (so obviously the PC version was used), but running CPU/GPU intensive games via Parallels is not recommended.
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I am going to try this when my xp gets here


btw... Ive been learning more tricks and its helped my game play... I guess the cpu cant be completely to blame for all those missed notes after all:eek:
 
TheSpaz,

Is it possible it's caused by processes running in the background of your machine? We have basically nothing running on ours. We have the most basic, entry-level 20" iMac, bought last month only for running Office, iTunes, and playing games.

As far as I can tell, GH3 runs fine just as originally loaded, crowd included. My kids have played it on consoles at friends' houses and they say it's the same. I've only played a couple of times myself and I'm not very good yet, but one of my kids has beaten it on the Hard level. They did say that it seems to take longer to log in to play on-line, so they haven't tried that yet... maybe we'll experiment more with that today.

Ann
 
So okay my kids just woke up and I quizzed them. I was wrong, apparently none of them has beaten Hard level. But they've played it on Hard and Expert and it is fine, though very occasionally it "shakes".

But the really cool thing is that they just tried playing online and it is super cool. Right now my daughter is battling someone named "lassoo" on Medium. Awesome!

I really hope you can get yours to work, TheSpaz.
 
annmte said:
TheSpaz,

Is it possible it's caused by processes running in the background of your machine? We have basically nothing running on ours. We have the most basic, entry-level 20" iMac, bought last month only for running Office, iTunes, and playing games.

As far as I can tell, GH3 runs fine just as originally loaded, crowd included. My kids have played it on consoles at friends' houses and they say it's the same. I've only played a couple of times myself and I'm not very good yet, but one of my kids has beaten it on the Hard level. They did say that it seems to take longer to log in to play on-line, so they haven't tried that yet... maybe we'll experiment more with that today.

Ann
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I have no background processes running. I have a plenty fast computer to play it but, like I said, maybe it likes your video card better due to poor optimization done to the actual game port by Aspyr.
 
It definitely doesnt work as well as on a console. I think thespaz is a serious gamer and probably more picky than most so his concerns are valid. I like the game so much I wish I wouldnt have sold my ps2, but then I would be getting less than nothing done:rolleyes:
 
thechidz said:
It definitely doesnt work as well as on a console. I think thespaz is a serious gamer and probably more picky than most so his concerns are valid. I like the game so much I wish I wouldnt have sold my ps2, but then I would be getting less than nothing done:rolleyes:
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I'm not a serious gamer but, it annoys me when I miss notes that I can usually very easily hit. I am quite good at this game on PS2 but, where the framerate is so touchy on the computer, I find it much more difficult to get the same scores I easily get on the PS2. It's ridiculous. They should have just made the PS2 version compatible with online play... there are still a ton of people with PS2s... I think the reason they did this was to give people incentive to upgrade to PS3 or XBox but, since it's the only game I play, I'm not going to upgrade to PS3 just to play it online... so I bought it for the computer thinking it would be just as smooth as the PS2 since it's just scrolling dots... why do the characters have to be so detailed? Is this necessary? I'm never looking at them... I'm looking at the dots... not the characters. Anyways, I hope they come out with a patch to tone down the graphics intensity so that I don't have to buy a new video card.
 
I don't understand why it runs great on our iMacs, but not marginally more powerful MacBook Pros and Mac Pros.

I'm running it in BootCamp (Got a pre-Mac-inclusive box) and it runs fine, even with crowd, on my C2D 2Ghz, X1600 128Mb, 2Gb Ram iMac. I turn off crowd, and even on 1440x900 (native resolution) it runs grand.

Comeon Aspyr- do it right for a change, please?
 
I was at the Apple Store yesterday regarding an issue with my MacBook, and I asked the guy at the Genius Bar about this issue. He agreed that the problem is the Video Card. I found this thread, which says the Mac Pro is super fast but the GeForce 7300 is only sufficient for "undemanding users of older games and basic multimedia": http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/the_mac_pro_overview_part_3_video_card_options/

I agree with you that it's a shame they made GH3 so demanding and it's hard to justify spending that kind of money to upgrade just for one game.

Ann
 
This guy (in the other GH3 thread) has the beefiest MBP out there (2.6, 4GB, 256VRAM, 7200HDD) and still experiences lag.

Definitely not for the MBP! What fun is it to dial down every setting just to marginally play the game? Time to buy a console! ;)
 
I just posted this in the other thread too...

Lately Ive been running on the lowest possible video settings with physics turned off etc. It runs very well that way in normal play.

My only qualm is that the practice mode is pretty much useless because the sound gets all crunched up and the speed varies like mad.

The ONLY time I experience lag now is in practice mode and whenever a special effect turns on during play like when all the notes turn blue etc.

Also, I recalibrated audio and video and the download update from the apple website helped tremendously...

Hope this helps for all the MBPers out there.

But its true on a machine such as mine the game should play perfect...
 
I was wondering if anyone else had issues with the controller being recognized by the game? I plug it in and the lights around the xbox logo light up for a second but then go away. OS X is reading the controller fine but the game isn't.

Anyone know of any way to fix this?
 
I actually am going to have to take back my last post as the better I get at the game the more a realize there really is a lot of lag. I hope they send out a patch to tone down the req's for this because it could be a really fun game to play on hard or expert without constantly mising notes you would otherwise hit:rolleyes:
 
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