[wake266]

after installing widows with no difficulty(on my macbook), i installed several of my favorite games- oblivion, rome toatl war and battlefield 2142. whever i try to start these games the crash. Rome total war has "an unspecified error", Oblivion says "it has incountered a problem and need to close, sorry for the inconvience", and battle field just shows an intro screen and stops loading. whats up?

[ghporter]

Sounds like a video compatibility problem to me. Does your MacBook's video hardware match the minimums for these games? Most video-intensive games will downright give up (if not take Windows down with them) if the video subsystem isn't what the game needs-and most game programmers expect you to match your hardware to their games rather than working the other way around (I suspect collusion between nVidia, ATI and a number of game publishers ).

[wake266]

umm i was way over on 2142 and oblivion, but rome: total war(my favorite) needs like a 1 ghz processer and 64 megabytes of video ram, which i(after checking on my macbook) think i am over or even with.

[wake266]

by the way, i have halo on my macbook which runs not great, but not substandard either, i would think that it is harder to run halo than rome, but if i really knew that much about computers i wouldnt be here....never mind, halo only needs 32mb but rome needs 64.
btw is the video card in the macbook combatible with directx 9.0?