Has anybody managed to get Rise of Nations Gold running successfully on the new iMac? I've tried Windows 7 running on Paralles' Desktop 8 for Mac but cannot get good resolution or full screen. Favourite game by some distance and this is driving me mad.
Thanks
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Running windows 7 via Parallels
What model iMac?
Should have checked the game's web site and contacted the developers to see what the minimum, nominal or maximum hardware requirements for running the game are.
Games need a fast CPU, a fast GPU to deal with the high intensity/resolution graphics and boat loads of RAM.
Any of these, especially the GPU, can be a weak link for real time game play on a Mac.
If this iMac isn't working for you for gaming, you have 14 days from the time you received this iMac to return it for a full refund of your money.
Darn iPad,
If you are running Windows within Parallels on a Mac, you may need additonal RAM if you only ordered the base iMac with 8 GBs of RAM.
If this is a 21 inch screen model, you'll need to return it as you can't install any more RAM and you would need to purchase a new iMac model with more RAM installed.
Rise of Nations problem.
Thanks for reminding me about the 14 day returns policy. I have since spent some time with their 'genius bar' people at an Apple store some 40 miles from me. Basically this can be summarised as:
"The game ain't ever going to run properly on their Intel chips. Although it did run on older Mac Book Pro, this was a workround of some kind and it was sluggish" (I can vouch for this !).
They gave me a complete refund for the iMac, Parallels program and Elgato TV product which was very twitchy.
Before buying the iMac I had researched a fair bit over a two month time-frame. The RON game is 10 years old and developers have withered off the vine. Microsoft still have their name on the box but offer no support or help whatsoever. User communities had no useful suggestions etc etc. I spoke to numerous techies at Apple stores throughout England (Bristol, Manchester, Bath) - they were convinced Paralles would do it.
I now run the game on Windows 7 on my PC and have connected a 32" Samsung tv via a HDMI cable. Not quite the resolution of the iMac 27" but still very, very good.
Its a positive outcome as the Samsung tv cost me a tenth of the iMac bundle (£2200) and gives a much better tv performance (Elgato was ok but twitchy and would suddenly hang).
So thanks very much for pointing out the 14 day return period that Apple have - you did me a very big favour!
Hello there,
Im a big fan of Rise of nations and i would like to play the game on my new imac.
I don't know how it works and probably the first step is to install a program to make it possible to play microsoft games.
Can someone please help me or explain (step for step , so i am able to understand everything;)) the procedure to do this?
Thankyou in advance
Call AppleCare since you are still under warranty or research YouTube video tutorial instructions on how to install the game.
Rise of Nations Gold - new iMac
