Hello, Mac Gaming Machine

After my initial tinkering with Windows XP on my 17" iMac Core Duo, I reinstalled XP on my Mac, using Boot Camp to eliminate the original partition and build a new one, this time 20GBs in size, so I'd have plenty of room for games. I then installed World of Warcraft, since I already had a copy installed on my OS X partition that I was very familiar with and which would serve as a nice comparison. The results: WoW on Windows XP on my iMac, running fullscreen on my external 24-inch Dell monitor with all the graphics settings ramped up clocks in at about 6fps faster than my OS X installation of WoW, running fullscreen on the same display with the graphic settings pulled back to their default settings. Nice!
Let the PC gaming on sleek Mac hardware begin!
ps--sorry the picture above taken with my cameraphone isn't better.
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After my initial tinkering with Windows XP on my 17" iMac Core Duo, I reinstalled XP on my Mac, using Boot Camp to eliminate the...
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I'm real close to installing Boot Camp on my iMac for this, the 6fps with all settings turned up will be well worth it. What can I say, I'm addicted to the game :)
April 10 2006 at 1:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGood to see that games seem to run as quick, if not quicker in the windows environment. Im wondering if there is a performance boost with non-universal apps (such as photoshop and after effects) if installed in windows...since the performance of these programmes in osx under with a intel chip is fairly lack luster
April 07 2006 at 6:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replynathaniel, it says 6fps more with full details vs default on mac.
April 07 2006 at 3:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFinally Mac gamers can do what Linux gamers have been doing for years: reboot into Windows
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and when are the linux studs gonna make their own iLife/Spotlight/Automater apps?
This is great news. I'm quite surprised Windows only gets 6 FPS more -- I mean, seriously -- the universal binary for WoW just came out a little while ago and has had virtually no time to mature. The windows WoW client has had over a year to be tweaked and optimized, plus it runs in DirectX which should give it a much faster route to the video hardware than OpenGL under OSX.
April 06 2006 at 6:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMore on this here: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/index.html#S20947
April 06 2006 at 5:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHalf Life 2 ran stunningly well (I believe I was at 1024 x 768), HDR enabled in Lost Coast, though it started to hiccup upon enabling FSAA. All options were at max.
April 06 2006 at 5:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHey guys, i tried call of duty 2 on my imac core duo 17" running windows under boot camp with the default ATI drivers, and it comes up with a render error when i try to launch the game, anyone else had this problem?
April 06 2006 at 5:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm not that surprised at all that it runs faster using Windows, I'm sure after the Universal version of WOW is tweaked more and Intel OS X gets more updates, their won't be much of a difference at all.
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