Viva Pinata on the Mac?

[Spree]

Hey I've been looking all over for this without luck--could my Macbook run the PC version of Viva Pinata effectively? I have Parallels XP, and my laptop is the basic of the basic Macbooks with the exception of an upgrade to 2GB.

Any experiences, or suggestions? You'd think there'd at least be a PC demo out there...

Thanks!

 

[MRU]

Have you checked out the games minimum spec ?

The biggest concern I would have is the GPU.

 

[Spree]

Thanks for replying,

This was the only info I could find.

1.8 Ghz Processor
1 GB RAM
10 GB Hard Disk Space
NVIDIA 5900 or ATI 9600 Video Card or above
DVD-ROM Drive

I've also read this on another forum:

My kids got the game for christmas and are dieing to play it but before I can install Windows XP native (I have been using paralles for their windows games to date) I have to upgrade to Leopard to get Boot Camp but I don't want to spend the money (and time) unless the game will work. I think the computer meets all of the requierments but I am not sure about the video card because I am not sure what "ATI 9600 or above" means.


Here are my relevent specs:
Model Name: iMac
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz

ATI Radeon X1600:
Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1600
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 128 MB

Hey there.

I'm running a G5 iMac with the Core 2 Duo 2Ghz, 1Gb of RAM and the Radeon X1600 that you have in your machine. I find that the game runs absolutely fine on my machine so you should have no worries at all.

The only thing to worry about is the intermittent crashes in the game. This is nothing to do with your machine form what i can gather as nearly everyone has been having trouble too.

So it seems my computer would be able to run it... however I'm unsure about the graphics card, as my 'book uses the Intel GMA 950.

 

[MRU]

Yeah its the GMA950 that would be the biggest stumbling block, otherwise you would be fine.

I guess the only way to really know, is to try and hope the store will let you return the game if it doesnt. (unless there is a demo on the net)

Either you'll have a successful afternoon and a rewarding game to play, or a pain in the head and a crashing game

Oh and there is not a cat in hells chance of it running in Parallels, it's going to have to be Bootcamp i'm afraid.

 

[Spree]

We have an online game renting service, I may try that.

Ouch, Bootcamp. I'll have to see if I can get ahold of it and install it without terrible consequences. Any good guides? I haven't been able to find any when I searched.

Thanks

 

[MRU]

^ Are you on Tiger then ?

 

[Spree]

Yep, haven't made the jump yet.

 

[Foulle]

Hi there. I've bought Viva Pinata too... but it doesn't seem to work on my Macbook. Wouldn't work on my Thinkpad 'cuz I was 16MB short of a gig of RAM... but the processor is the problem this time. Got an error message telling me it was using only about 700MHz and, while it was capable of going up to the full 2.2GHz, it definitely didn't. I called Apple, they said Macs can't overclock unless I found a third party program...

Well, I'd like to know if yours turned out alright.

 

[Spree]

It didn't Tried it under parallels and got a strange error continually. Too scared to install Bootcamp without a back up atm.