Diablo 2 and/or Doom 3 on a MacBook, good idea?

Nope, intel GMA 950 manage to get 224 mb of shared memory.

I played Warcraft III, also from blizzard that create D2, and I believe it is heavier than D2, and I still can enjoy the game well. (a little chug here and there when there is a lot of army involved in the battle).

But it is still enjoyable, so I assume the D2 which is lighter then WIII will run just fine.

Good Luck.

dude d2 lod runs like whip cream... its great. now people can run half-life 2 and call of duty 2 on their macbooks but i would think that doom 3 would be taking it a little too far

If u have 1 GB of RAM, it will run, but have problems.

If u have 2 GB ram, it should run great, MacBook can run almost any new games great on medium - low settings, but in the future you probably arent going to be able to run any, unless there is a firmware update to unleash the true power of the Intel GMA950...

What power of the Intel GMA950?

Dual 2.7 Ghz PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

The full power of the GMA950 is 224, which is almost 256 MBs of dedicated memory. Right now they have the GMA 950 capped to 64 MBs, which is a lot worse than 64 MBs of dedicated memory. So if the GMA 950 gets to 224 MBs, it will only be a little bit more powerful than 128 MBs of dedicated. Yes, apple has it to where it can get more graphics memory, but very rarely does it do that. I ran WoW when I borrowed 2 GBs of RAM from my dads intel iMac, and had it on low settings, and I have software where it says how much RAM is getting used and how much graphics is making, it was costing about 90 percent of the RAM, but only had about 32 of graphics memory getting produced. That just proves that Apple has capped the graphics memory to a low amount. Also the system requirements for WoW was a minimum of 32 MBs of VRAM, so maybe they capped the graphics to be set at the bare minumum of whatever task/tasks you are running.

"If u have 2 GB ram, it should run great, MacBook can run almost any new games great on medium - low settings, but in the future you probably arent going to be able to run any, unless there is a firmware update to unleash the true power of the Intel GMA950..."

This is plain incorrect. The 950 is a mediocre GPU and cannot run Doom III well even if it had 99999999Gb of dedicated memory. I've tried Doom III with 2Gb of Ram, and the game is virtually unplayable even at 640x480 with no shadows, lighting, effects, and with all textures at lowest quality.

Thats strange, Doom 3 runs barely playable on mine even with only 512 MBs of RAM...

The full power of the GMA950 is 224, which is almost
256 MBs of dedicated memory. Right now they have the
GMA 950 capped to 64 MBs, which is a lot worse than
64 MBs of dedicated memory. So if the GMA 950 gets to
224 MBs, it will only be a little bit more powerful
than 128 MBs of dedicated. Yes, apple has it to where
it can get more graphics memory, but very rarely does
it do that. I ran WoW when I borrowed 2 GBs of RAM
from my dads intel iMac, and had it on low settings,
and I have software where it says how much RAM is
getting used and how much graphics is making, it was
costing about 90 percent of the RAM, but only had
about 32 of graphics memory getting produced. That
just proves that Apple has capped the graphics memory
to a low amount. Also the system requirements for WoW
was a minimum of 32 MBs of VRAM, so maybe they capped
the graphics to be set at the bare minumum of
whatever task/tasks you are running.

It just proves that WoW used only 32MB, that's all, nothing else. Why it's another question, maybe because you reduced the graphics settings in WoW so it didn't ask for more.

Hey im trying to get diablo2 running on my macbook do i need to have bootcamp or parallels to run d2? When the install disk is inserted it isnt recognized.
thanks

maybe you have a bad disk, diablo 2 runs natively on OSX for me. it will run perfectly fine, i can run WoW (relatively low graphic settings, but still really well), and even unreal tournament 2004 easily.

Oh forgot to add, i have 2.0 gigs of ram now, but the games ran with 512 mb as well

there is a mac version of diablo2. but if your using a windows cd you will need bootcamp as paralels is only an emulater, so games wont run in it (or for older games that can be emulated it wont work great anayway.) so bootcamp is what you need. i run diablo 2 and guildwars fine, rather nice actually 🙂