Halo on Macbook

I have seen many threads here about running Halo on the Macbook, so I tested it for myself. I ran Halo for Mac on my new Macbook, 1.8 Ghz with the stock memory and hard drive. In my opinion the game ran smoothly when I ran it at the lowest settings. I uploaded some footage of it running so you can judge it for yourself. Here are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-BHFpCNfXg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RbKsVQDGjI
Sorry for the bad quality and the shaking camera, I recorded this with a digital camera with one hand while playing the game with the other hand. I'm sure you can tell from the videos that the game is running in a window. I did that because that is how I normally play. I have not had a chance to run the game with higher settings nor have I ran it at full screen. I plan to later and upload the video if I have time. I am putting these videos up so people can judge how the MacBook performs with Halo before they buy it or the MacBook if playing Halo is a concern for them.

Peace

Macbook 13'' 1.8Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Macbook 13'' 1.8Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jun 14, 2006 8:38 PM

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Jun 15, 2006 7:31 PM in response to PhonicsMonkey3

Yes I have also heard about the Universal Binary. Its the reason I bought Halo for the Mac instead of running bootcamp and running Halo PC. Hope they release it soon.

By the way I have added video of Halo running in full screen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWs1yQbF1YE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLFIYj2ONqE

The first one is running with the highest in game video settings. It is laggy but somewhat playable.

The second one is running with tweaked in game settings. In the video settings I changed the graphics in game to medium and turned off shadows. With the tweaks the game runs smoothly for the most part. When I'm driving the hog it looks laggy but it is not that is just my bad driving. But there is lag when the screen says "loading."

There is also no sound in the second clip. Thats because the original clip was longer and I edited it in iMovie HD. I couldn't figure out how to put sound back into the clip.

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