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Star-Fire · May 29, 2006, 11:11 PM

Yes, it does run and play, and while not great it is playable. Average FPS is about 20-22 FPS, seeing much higher on indoor areas and sometime lower in outdoor settings. This was at 800x600, saw no differance at 640x480, just wanted to report in on it.

crispin14 · May 30, 2006, 01:56 AM

Thanks for the tip. So CS:Source should be fine to play also?

jeff25624 · May 30, 2006, 02:57 AM

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Star-Fire · May 30, 2006, 04:22 AM

Oh, you do have to force it to run in Directx 7, well only way I got it to run.

jokell82 · May 30, 2006, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by Star-Fire

Oh, you do have to force it to run in Directx 7, well only way I got it to run.

Is that easy to do? I'd really love to play HL2 but I've been out of the Windows gaming world for so long...

tillin · May 30, 2006, 01:01 PM

sweet mother of God... you can play HL2 on a macbook???? i was nearly wetting myself with excitement hearing that i could play the original HL again ( among the other PC games i have that i can no longer play )

im going to wait for the REV B macbook then i will most likely get one.

Tomchu · May 30, 2006, 03:06 PM

800x600 with DX7 interfaces and 20-22 FPS? I don't call that playable.

That would be why I'm shelling out for a MBP.

Star-Fire · May 30, 2006, 03:23 PM

I'm not recomending it but for a quick game it's fine, I imagine it might be able to be tweeked more, anyone that games alot though won't like it, besides it flys on my iMac

jokell82 · May 30, 2006, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Tomchu

800x600 with DX7 interfaces and 20-22 FPS? I don't call that playable.

That would be why I'm shelling out for a MBP.

Some of us don't want to shell out an extra grand just to play a video game.

tillin · May 30, 2006, 04:05 PM

i have never played HL2, because i switched to mac long before it came out, but i did used to play HL1 and i miss it dearly, if i could just play that with good FPS man id be a trigger happy camper.

jokell82 · May 30, 2006, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by AGoglanian

i have never played HL2, because i switched to mac long before it came out, but i did used to play HL1 and i miss it dearly, if i could just play that with good FPS man id be a trigger happy camper.

That's EXACTLY what I'm looking for. I just want to be able to play it.

If it's THAT bad I have an old PC that may do the job, I'd need to upgrade the video card though...

Tomchu · May 30, 2006, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by jokell82

Some of us don't want to shell out an extra grand just to play a video game.

Some of us want to shell out an extra grand so that they don't have two-year-old integrated graphics technology in their brand-new notebook. All that time Apple spent harping on integrated graphics might come back to haunt them.

jokell82 · May 30, 2006, 04:58 PM

Seems like a waste of $1000 to me unless you need the 3d capabilities outside of games.

For $1000 you could get a kickass video game system and a whole slew of games that would be much better than the MBP for playing.

Tomchu · May 30, 2006, 07:24 PM

Yeah, but then there are all of the other things that differentiate the two -- like almost 2x the performance on certain tasks on the MBP vs. MB. I don't know why that is, nor does BareFeats, but that's the case.

Heavy · May 31, 2006, 09:13 AM

I agree, you could buy the MB, AND the new X box, some games and still save $. Then you'd have so much more.

I'm not a big game guy. My Dell has a Radeon 9800 and in the past three years, we've played one game on it. X box is much better for games than any laptop. It's nice to know that some games will play on the MB, but that's not what it was designed for. I needed it for it's size and for my work and music. I couldn't have made it more perfect.

rhythmicmoose · May 31, 2006, 10:43 AM

You should try running it at the MacBook's display's native resolution (1280x800). You should get better performance that way since the graphics card won't be constantly scaling to your adjusted resolution.

Star-Fire · May 31, 2006, 11:07 AM

I did try at the native res, FPS was lower, 800x600 was the best I could get without rates dropping.

hyteckit · Jun 2, 2006, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by rhythmicmoose

You should try running it at the MacBook's display's native resolution (1280x800). You should get better performance that way since the graphics card won't be constantly scaling to your adjusted resolution.

Um... no. Native res of an LCD has nothing to do with graphic processor.