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Wait a second. My macbook 2.2 with x3100 graphics doesn't tear on youtube videos. Something is wrong here.
I don't know, some of those youtube videos can be pretty taxing. I think they can run as high as 720p nowadays.
Wait a second. My macbook 2.2 with x3100 graphics doesn't tear on youtube videos. Something is wrong here.
Agreed. I've been playing WoW on my various macs since it's release. The one big thing to realize is that not every setting changes performance the same way. Cranking multisampling will hurt, full screen glow is brutal, shadowing(from what i heard) is shooting yourself in the foot.
If you want to get optimal performance, cripple every setting and reload the game. Seriously, minimize everything, and turn on/off anything that you can that will improve performance. Log in to a busy area (Dalaran would be optimal), and change things little by little, starting with the minor things, and moving to the more major things. Eventually, you will reach a point where you aren't willing to sacrifice more FPS to get more effects. Thats where you end up happy.
WoW is a very very different beast the any other games because its so dynamic. Performance in the middle of no where classic area vs performance in overcrowded dalaran vs performance during a heroic raid encounter might as well all have their own benchmarks.
For anyone with performance issues, start with full screen glow off and 1x multisampling, and shadowing low/off. Check the mac tech support section of the WoW forums for a lot of good information.
You Realise the GT130 is a lesser card than the 8800 GS? (Which was Actually an 8800 GTS). You Should of done your homework before you went out and bought an obviously slower system, and you have no one to blame but yourself.
Uh, the osx86 partition is just to use osx. Nobody seriously plays games with osx, all games would be played in Windows. I'm sorry you get better gps in osx, but when a 3870 is more powerful than an 8800gt, something is wrong. Thanks for your osx86 explanation, I'm new to computers.![]()
First of all a lot of people play games in osx. it may not be like crysis but they do. As i said before WoW runs better in opengl rather than directx just switch your config.wtf around and youll see. also considering its an 8800m gts which is a mobile chip its not surprising also with the fact that the processor in it is only 1.6ghz i get more cpu lag than graphics as wow does not run in dual core.
all i am doing is trying to convince this guy to not return his mac for a pc he will regret it. this has gone off topic with osx86 among other things.
the short answer is yes maybe atm the gt130 (if it even is a real gt130) may be slow but it wont be. Snow leopard is soon to be released this year and will change the preformance of OSX completely. another note is that unless you go under 30fps you wont see any difference in the playability of wow.
Microsoft is touting the same thing for their next version of windows. They say it'll be more streamlined and perform better than Vista.