[Dark Helmet]

"One of its hacks installed Boot Camp onto his MacBook, installed Windows and then World of Warcraft. To test how the two operating systems compared he ran WoW at 1440 x 900 with all the graphic settings on maximum.

It was barely playable of course but he managed to get a frame rate reading of 15 and 20 FPS under Mac OX.

On the same lap top under Windows and the same settings he managed to get between 35 and 40 FPS. This is a pretty big difference."

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31121

I know there are many many reasons for this so please don't rag me out like I am the one making these claims.

[::maroma::]

And this is news why?

I hope people weren't thinking that the lack of performance in Mac versions of games was 100% due to the processor.

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by ::maroma::

And this is news why?

I hope people weren't thinking that the lack of performance in Mac versions of games was 100% due to the processor.

I think people believe the following:

1) OpenGL is faster on Windows
2) Intels are faster than PPC
3) Games are optomised for Windows NOT but not specifically the processor
4) OSX is slow (partly true in some cases)
5) OSX uses more CPU in the background

Or any combination of the above.

[angelmb]

http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/293141/windows-twice-as-fast-os-x/

[besson3c]

Does WoW use OpenGL or DirectX? I thought most PC games use DirectX?