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Ok. I hear that games work better on the Windows side than the Mac side. So those games that barely worked on the Mac, should work fine on Windows.

Here's a guide for games that work on the GMA 950:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/25180 … ility-list

Make sure to browse the comments as there are links to other lists and/or other compatible games mentioned.

Thank you, thank you, I shall look into this.

I am really disturbed to report that Internet Exploder under XP is waaayyyyy faster than Safari, Firefox, Flock, or any other browser I've ever used in OS X: The pages load and render on my screen so quickly, it's almost like magic!

I like how Starcraft is the first suggestion for Bootcamp gaming.

Last edited by elpato84 (2009-10-05 7:20 pm)

Starcraft has no detail settings. It's all bitmaps/sprites.

elpato84 wrote:

AND IT CAME OUT 11 YEARS AGO

And consequently uses only DirectDraw, not D3D. It's a 2D game, unlike SC2, slated for DX10.1.

Well most of the UT series is more CPU bound.

Bren wrote:

Aren't there Mac versions of Unreal? The whole point is to be able to do stuff I can't do in OS X.

X-Com, then.

More seriously, the GMA950 is about equivalet, iirc, to a low end Geforce 2. So, any game that came out before 2002/3 or so should work fine - assuming it's new enough to work in XP.

Bren wrote:

Wow! It's so much faster than running Windows in VMWare Fusion or Virtual PC! This is crazy!
[snip]

Um, you were expecting that running Windows directly on your iMac would run at a comparable speed to those emulations you mentioned?

D'Eyncourt wrote:

Bren wrote:

Wow! It's so much faster than running Windows in VMWare Fusion or Virtual PC! This is crazy!
[snip]

Um, you were expecting that running Windows directly on your iMac would run at a comparable speed to those emulations you mentioned?

No, of course not. I expected it to be faster; I was just expressing the joy I felt upon realizing how much faster it was.

sturner wrote:

Well, I'm STILL trying to get my verdamnt XP SP2 on my Boot Camp partition to upgrade to SP3.

The stupid thing is still screwing up the install. It doesn't take or it corrupts itself.

Let me count the ways that I love Microsoft.

Starting with 0, or already into negative numbers?

More seriously, have you tried it from the SP3 redistributable?* My first try, updating online, failed too. Also, it's easy to slipstream SP3 into your original CD, and nuke 'n' pave from that. Several advantages to that approach.


*The redistrib was on a different partition. You could likely get the same result with SP3 burned to disc.

Point narrow end at squishy thing that screams and bleeds?

sturner wrote:

I've downloaded the SP3 distro that is on an .iso image, and will likely punish myself with that tonight.

And as recompense for doing so I am looking forward to watching you die an excruciating death from zombies.

Well, at least now I have a good idea what you mean when you bill yourself as a 'team player.'

Or if you have $20 you don't mind using, purchase Red Orchestra, and then download Darkest Hour, and we can re-fight WWII.

I'll teach you how to use a sniper rifle, and machine gun.

$20ses are in correspondingly shorter supply than two-fittys, esp. after getting L4D, ODST and {gasp} groceries within 6 weeks of each other; but I've played with Books recently. Ask him next time if I need sniping or automatic weapons training. 'Sides, me good in tanks too, and you suck at Vs. mode. (Hint: this is me recently putting one shot thru three Grunts in motion- at night. With a bum controller. [Suggest View High Res, tho that might be blocked after one or two folks do]).

There are some even in TX with Tree-sittys. Find one, and I'll aim you at some recent games w/Books.

RO & DH down the road apiece, likely when on sale. And I'll show you where the iron crosses grow. (Now what would that be from..? )

Last edited by Bat (2009-10-08 5:10 pm)