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Out of curiosity, what is your opinion on its objective performance? Unplayable, decent, good, _? You never actually said how WC3 ran, just that it was worse than your PC. The good news is that universal binaries are rolling out of company doors every day, and they scream.
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In the meantime, all you can do is pester Blizzard for an update and make do with sub-optimal performance. In the future, you'll know what to look for, so you won't get burned. To DeadPrez, all I can say is, now you know. Many (most?) Mac sites assume their readers know a good bit about the Mac, so they really AREN'T good sources of information about this kind of thing for new, uninformed users. But any switcher will be judging it against comparable hardware running Windows. They see that it runs great for a non-native program or compared to G4 systems, and they say it runs great based on that. Furthermore, most Mac sites do GUSH about the performance of Rosetta, because they, like us, have entirely different expectations than any "normal person" would. We Mac users don't like to admit it, but this switch certainly causes PR problems, as DeadPrez's experience shows. This may seem obvious to us longtime Mac users who follow news, but it's certainly not obvious to anyone else, like DeadPrez. If no one says anything about it, they won't do anything about it. Let them know that you want a universal binary for your desired application. Send them an e-mail, write them a letter. Take out your hostility at Blizzard for not making a universal binary available.
But as you can see, they have the page with the system requirements on it.ĭon't take your hostility out on me because I was honest. The other place to check would be the website of Blizzard themself to see if the game has a universal binary, which they don't. (Take special note of the box that talks about Intel Core CPU Macs. Had you really checked (and not gone by someone's word), you would have been better informed. It's possible that they might have been talking about the PowerBook G4 and not the MacBook Pro.
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Heck I would even tell you to buy a Windows computer if you wanted it mainly for WC3 (since that's your main concern)! It just doesn't make sense to spend that amount of money and then complain about a game not working properly on it.Īs for those sites, please provide the links to backup your statement. I'm not being a zealot (and there's no need for profanity either). It's just a matter of common sense when you're spending that amount of money. Sorry, but I had to say something about it.
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Of course, at this point I don't know what to recommend to someone who's spent 3 Gs on a MacBook Pro for WarCraft 3 only. I wouldn't bother spending the money on an iBook G4. If you're not pleased with it, return it and by a PowerPC Mac and you'll be back to playing WarCraft 3 happily.īTW, the only PowerPC Macs you're going to find now are either used or the high-end Power Mac G5 Macs. The problem is that you didn't research before making the purchase.that's hardly Apple's fault. Be glad that the application is running at all since the Intel Core CPUs and PowerPC CPUs are totally different. There's nothing wrong with the 's running the app as advertised by Apple.through emulation in Rosetta. Think of it as playing an old DOS/Windows 95 game on a Windows XP computer. Also consider that you're playing an old game on a newer computer (despite the processor difference). Apple announced they were switching to Intel processors last year during WWDC. Umm.this has been in the news for about a year now (even mainstream news).
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I don't want to have to boot Windows just to get decent performance!Įdit: Is it possible/probably War3 won't run at full speed if it isn't compiled as a universal binary? I just checked via the Activity Monitor and it says Frozen Throne is a PowerPC (as opposed to Intel) binary.
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Hopefully I am just a confused new Mac user that who hasn't tweaked a driver just right or something. Not to mention everyone swearing WoW and other games work at full settings. I'm not saying these settings can't be tweaked downward but I would have thought the MacBook Pro would have *easily* handled Warcraft III due to the next generation of video card and (duo core) CPU. 1280x1024x16, model detail high, animation low, texture quality high, particles high, lights medium, shadows off, occlussion on, spell detail high. My video settings are cloned from the PC. In other words, shouldn't the MacBook Pro kick ass all over something nearly two years older? My previous desktop is Windows XP on an AMD 2700+ w/ 1 gig ram and ATI 9800 Pro. Hi, I recently purchased a Macbook Pro (2.0ghz, 2gig ram, 7200 rpm hd) and just finished playing a handful of sluggish 3v3 Warcraft III (Frozen Throne) games.