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[BornAgainMac]

Time is money

That G4 1.33 couldn't even handle UT2004.....come on

I really doubt it's the G4. It's used by professionals in video production and photoshop users for years. Time is money for them. Could it be one of these problems?

1) Open G/L vs MS DirectX
2) Program optimization of the game (for a small market)
3) The video card performance (Macs with 1.33 had weak video?)
4) All of above

Anyone with a G4 with a good graphics card having any issues with game performance? I also understand Quake III performed very well compared to other games like that for the Mac.

 

[thatwendigo]

I really doubt it's the G4. It's used by professionals in video production and photoshop users for years. Time is money for them. Could it be one of these problems?

1) Open G/L vs MS DirectX
2) Program optimization of the game (for a small market)
3) The video card performance (Macs with 1.33 had weak video?)
4) All of above

Anyone with a G4 with a good graphics card having any issues with game performance? I also understand Quake III performed very well compared to other games like that for the Mac.

It's option four, actually. Without DirectX (which card manufacturers are increasingly optimizing for), things would be bad enough. However, we also have the need to basically rewrite huge sections of the games to operate on PPC hardware, along with a usually lagging development cycle on graphics cards.

I run a G4 1.4ghz single with 832MB of RAM and a GeForce 3, and I can play UT2k3 and Halo pretty respectably. Of course, I've got an SATA drive that's upped the disk access, but that's only a minor point.

 

[csubear]

I'm just going to assume that you understood my point.

I would still like to point out that the 1.33 G4 in apples 12" laptops is very nice. the 12" is light and small, and the power that the g4 provids is great.

 

[applebum]

You don't have to restore system, nor spend $1800 on a new system just to fix the spyware/virus problem. Since you're running WinXP Pro, turn on the built-in firewall. That will cut down on 99% of virus and hack attacks. If you want more security, get ZoneAlarm personal. It's free. Next, if you're running Internet Explorer, stop. Get FireFox from mozilla.org and turn on the built-in pop-up blocker. And finally, to get rid of the spyware and adware, get Spybot and Ad-Aware. Both free, and will help you take out virtually all the common spyware on your PC.

Yes, and this is one of the annoyances with Windows and why I just got rid of my HP (with an AMD 1.7 processor) laptop and went with a G3 iBook 900. When I am done using my iBook, I shut it down. When I was done with the Windows laptop, I had to run Adaware and Spybot at least every couple of days to remove spyware. I also ran a virus check at least once a week (if not more) to be sure I had not gotten any virii. That is anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes spent before shutting down just to make sure that laptop would stay working - wasted time that I don't have to do with the iBook.

And say hello to the black screen of death, the kernel panic?

Yeah that's good, take one rare occurence (BSOD) and compare it to one that is equally rare on a Mac. I have been using Macs for the last 4 years and only just last week had my first ever Kernel Panic. And that happened because I unplugged my wireless USB adapter without first turning it off.