Age of Empires on new MacBook Pro

Age of Empires will run beautifully on that machine, as it does on mine with an even newer graphics card.

I agree. You should have no problem at all.

-Bmer
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AE2 was having issues because it was written during the PPC macs (as far as i understand and can tell)

the fact that AE3 was written after the intel macs came out should make it much easier to run

-matt

I have a...

15" Macbook Pro
2.6Hz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB Ram
512mb GeForce 8600M GT
200gb HD (faster speed)

I recently installed AoE 3 onto this computer and, while it loads up perfectly fine, I'm experiencing random lock ups which force me to manually reboot the computer by pressing and holding the power button. I am currently downloading the 1.0.3 patch which will hopefully help out, but the patch notes for this update don't claim to fix anything close to the issue I'm having. Can anyone help out?

well AoE always hogged my machines. on my power book (g4 with 1 gb of ram) i had to run the game very low and would get it quitting out on me a lot. even after i got my MBP (2.33 with 2gb recently upgraded to 3 gb ram) i would get it quitting out on me some times still. i dont know how AoE 3 is so i cant say for sure its the same issue but those games are notorious for being uber ram/processor hogs and if they dont get their way they wont be very nice in my experance

you can always try to upgrade your ram. also making sure you keep the machine cool while playing and try to quit out of everything else before starting to play may help
-matt

AoE3 is going to look run with NO issues!

I have the first version of the MacBook Pro:

15" MacBook Pro
2.16 Ghz Core Duo (first version, so it had a Core Duo and not a Core2 like most of you have 😉 )
1 gb RAM
120Gb HD
and the basic ATI graphics card

I have been running AoE3 for quite a while now and have not had ANY issues. It looks absolutely beautiful. Recently, I upgraded my computer to 2gb of RAM but I have not had a chance to see what kind of performance boosts I gained.

Okay, the update to AGE3 finally downloaded and I got it installed. Even though the patch notes didn't state any fixes for my problem, the update still seemed to have helped. I have experienced any lock ups since.

i envy you,
-matt