Possible games on G4 Powerbook

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Possible games on G4 Powerbook

This is just a quick question really. I am considering getting a Powerbook to help me with my graphic design career, and I like playing the odd game and I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if any of these games would work on a 15" Powerbook, with or without a 128mb graphics card, or with the standard one. If these games would work on a normal level, e.g. medium resolution, textures, settings etc without stutter or low frame rate (or even if they run better) please please let me know, it would be a great help!

Max Payne
No One Lives Forever 2
XIII
Halo
Aliev V.S. Predator 2
Unreal Tournament 2004
Rayman 3
Worms 3D
Elite Force 2

Posted on Sep 13, 2005 1:01 AM

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Answer 1

beatz

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Sep 13, 2005 2:43 AM in response to Luke Weall

worms 3D and max payne will run fine. unreal tournament was not vey good on mine...

I have a 64 MB graphics card.

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J.Arch

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Sep 13, 2005 10:43 AM in response to Luke Weall

Rayman no problem - No One Lives Forever ok - Halo ok

When i say ok - I mean not a dazzling performance but works with optimized settings.

You should play Return To Castle Wolfenstein though- forever classic multiplayer online!!! RTCW also works no problem, even on highest settings.

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Answer 3

Sep 15, 2005 10:18 PM in response to Luke Weall

Hi,
I'm a gamer too and I have 64 video memory and 512 RAM and even the most graphics intensive games work well on my powerbook. Go to <www.aspyr.com> and download GameAgent. Its a free game utility exclusively for macs and it will tell you all you need to know about the newest, coolest games.

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Answer 4

beatz

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Sep 16, 2005 1:18 PM in response to Luke Weall

I hope my powerbook will run Quake 4. i currently enjoy quake3, it runs very well.

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Answer 5

Sep 16, 2005 3:43 PM in response to beatz

Rising Nations is one of my favorite games on the powerbook.

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Jim Mauro

Level 2

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Sep 16, 2005 3:45 PM in response to Luke Weall

You don't list Doom3, but since we're on the subject...

It's does not play well on my PowerBook (1.67Ghz, 1.5Mb RAM, 128MB VRAM). It gets sluggish when the action gets hot, which results in me getting killed pretty often (it doesn't help that I'm a lousy gamer).

I guess I should have payed closer attention to the recommendations (I think they strongly advise a G5 as a minimum)....

/jim

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Answer 7

Luke Weall Author

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Sep 17, 2005 10:04 AM in response to Jim Mauro

Ha ha, I would have never even imagined Doom 3 would have worked, I have known it to drag down Power Mac G5's running with a 9600 card, so I could not imagine it working to any degree of playability on the Power Book. I am glad Halo seems to have recieved a positive response though, I guess if I run that at a low resolution with the textures and detail down it should run quite nicely! Thanks for all your help everyone!

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Luke Weall Author

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Sep 17, 2005 10:06 AM in response to beatz

Quake 4? I dunno, Quake 3 is awesome but pretty old now, Quake 4 looks like it is running on a beefed up version of the Doom 3 engine, so I doubt you will be able to get it running with any degree of playability on the Powerbook sadly, you never know though...

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Answer 9

Nov 6, 2005 8:33 PM in response to Luke Weall

Yes all will run on a Ibook 1.25ghz fx5200.

I see someone mentiones Quake4 please write to Aspyr and inform them that thay will have to write Quake4 from scratch as it is realy pathetic.

On ZDNET.com reviews it has a 6/10 rating and after finishing it in 11 hours and 35 minutes split into 2 days of play it is worse than the original pacman being released now for the first time.
Online servers is slow with lag and several glitches on 3mb/s cable but there might be hope for the online part of it when the paches start to come out.

I am now busy instaling AVP2 now and I do enjoy it 100 times more than Quake4.

Ps> AVP2 , Command&Conq. Generals , Raven Shield and Unreal Tournament 2k4 all runs very well on 10.3.3+ 1.25ghz Ibook fx5200.

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Answer 10

Nov 6, 2005 8:35 PM in response to Luke Weall

Doom 3 runs very well provided you don't try to burn the graphics card out at max ress.

800x600x32bit at low to med settings 50fps+

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Answer 11

Nov 6, 2005 9:42 PM in response to Luke Weall

Alien V.S. Predator 2 will not do internet gaming with OS X 10.3+
I purchased this and foound out the hard way that the game requires OX X 10.26 or 10.28

I purchased this for intenet gaming with my son, amd am stuck.
I just purchased a mac, so I cannot comment on theh other games.

HTH

Frank

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Answer 12

Nov 7, 2005 5:12 PM in response to Luke Weall

AvP 2 and Elite Force 2 both work on my PB.

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Answer 13

Nov 18, 2005 6:57 PM in response to Luke Weall

UT04 ran fine (not great though - 24+ fps with medium graphics settings) on my 12", and that had half the VRAM of the current 15".

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GeNomeZ

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Nov 18, 2005 8:10 PM in response to Noah Witherspoon

Unreal Tournament 2004 runs great with all the settings bumped up to "higher" on my new PowerBook 17" (1.67 Ghz, 1.5GB RAM, 128MB VRAM) even at the highest resolution (1680 X ?). I really like it and it runs great for internet play as well. I haven't played any of the other games. My iBook (1.42Ghz, 1GB RAM, 32MB VRAM) runs Unreal Tournament 2004 decent (not great), but it is best to leave all the default settings (normal).

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