MMORPGs

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MMORPGs

Ok, I know most of the posts here are serious but I bet not all so I was wondering ...

Anyone regularly playing any PC only MMOGs on an Intel Mac and if so how goes it?

I've just got a Mac Book Pro courtesy of my insurance company (my old but trusty G3 titanium book took a dive down the stairs) and I'm keen to have a go - enter the world of PC MMOGs I mean!

Can it hack it? Bootcamp or Parallels Desktop the way to go?

I'd appreciate any and all information as I've seen a fair bit about playing stand alone PC games but can't find much relating to online stuff.

Thanks!

G5 dual 2ghz, 3gb ram, ATI X800XT video board, wife, baby, cat and dog, Mac OS X (10.4.8), Mac Book Pro 2ghz, 2gb ram

Posted on Oct 24, 2006 8:55 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 24, 2006 9:03 AM in response to Thing_9

Using bootcamp I have very successfully played DDO which is an MMORPG as well as Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion which, although not an MMO, it's incredibly graphics intensive and runs very well.

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Answer 2

Oct 24, 2006 9:04 AM in response to Kyle MacRitchie

Oh, and you have to use bootcamp. Parallels doesn't support the video card.

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Answer 3

Thing_9 Author

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Oct 24, 2006 12:39 PM in response to Kyle MacRitchie

Marvellous - cheers mate!

Funnily enough those two are games of interest to me! I knew Oblivion would run - caught some info about that elsewhere - but MMOGs, nothing, couldn't find anyone saying they'd done it.

Now I wonder ... will the video on a laptop be up to it and will Eve Online run?

We'll see ... Bootcamp, a purchase of Windows (aargh) and some free demo downloads here I come ...

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Answer 4

Oct 24, 2006 2:03 PM in response to Thing_9

I just started testing and playing Eve Online in the last couple days on mine and it seems to run just fine.

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Answer 5

Oct 24, 2006 3:05 PM in response to Thing_9

I play World of Warcraft on both the Mac OS X side, and Windows.

Windows runs better, but I have no issues on either end. The game is a blast, but crazy addictive 🙂

I hope you got a Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro, that would be a sweet upgrade. Either way though, it kicks ***.

What kind of insurance company covers kicking an old laptop down the stairs?

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Thing_9 Author

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Oct 25, 2006 2:49 AM in response to sw0rdfish

I'm already in (or was, I left recently) WoW with a good few characters so won't be looking at the Mac Book Pro for that - Eve Online though, now that I want to have a bash at.

I think the plan will be to try anything that appeals and has a free trial. Seems a bit daft to buy a PC game not knowing whether it'll run or not.

And yeah, they gave (well, after parting with a small excess fee and the cost for a ram upgrade) the 2ghz Core Duo 15.4" laptop which I upgraded to 2gb ram. Of course literally days after the insurance company replaced it Apple released the much better spec'd new Mac Book Pro - but hey, that's computing life!

Oh, and I didn't kick it down the stairs! I was taking it downstairs for my wife to use whilst she was laid up on the sofa with a bad back. The cat got under my feet (as she's prone to do) and it was me or the PB. Given I've got enough cover to clear the mortgage I suspect my missus would have preferred it were me that took the tumble however it wasn't. The old Mac described, in lovely slow motion, a gentle curve through the air and caught the top of the baby safety gate cleanly separating screen from keyboard and scattering various other internals across the reception room floor. It even put a crack through the glass of the screen. Amazing! Wasn't a major fall, no particular force behind it, just freefall in to a metal gate.

Not, in the slightest, insurance fraud! I don't condone such things and would never do so since every claim makes the costs of the insurance increase so ultimately the machine will still cost me!

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Answer 7

Oct 25, 2006 9:29 AM in response to Thing_9

Eve Online runs quite well but speaking of that, I am trying to do screen captures on the Windows side of my mac while in the game and can't figure out how to do that with my Mac keyboard. Any thoughts? Need help! It's for my thesis project.

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Answer 8

Oct 25, 2006 2:06 PM in response to Thing_9

HeHe... I didn't mean to insinuate you ACTUALLY kicked it...

Did you have the PB itself covered under warranty? Or is it covered under home owners insurance?

I had a laptop in college that I was "renting" and I came out of my room once, which once you leave the door has a railing, and a drop to the first floor to the immediate left of my room door... as I cam out the cat got in my feet and I stumbled and the laptop which I had in my hands, open as I was typing something before I decided to change locales, slid off my hand, and miraculously balanced on the railing.

I even stared at it for about a second before I went "HOLY CRAP" and grabbed the thing.

Had it fallen however, I'd have been out 3Gs for a POS Thinkpad.

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Thing_9 Author

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Oct 27, 2006 8:01 AM in response to sw0rdfish

Not sure you'd have had to pay for it - thought student stuff was insured to the hilt because it's being lent/rented to, well, students! Hehe. Insurance against beer incursion!

Anyway, had a day or so on Eve. Runs really well - decent fps, playable, even on the little 15" screen. Well it was till I installed Netguard then the game crawled to a stand still. Disabled that and it's back to a decent clip.

Can't say I'm fussed with the game itself - bit tedious. Going to try Saga of Rysom now. Shame, really fancied a modern, online, Elite equivalent. For me the lack of exploration, the pretty much automated space flight, and the massively complex trading stuff is a bit dull.

Oh and Windows ... holy ** what an abomination! How does anyone cope with it? Warnings about this, suggestions for that, bubbles here, balloons there. Nanny OS!

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