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    Call of Duty for OS X on 13" unibody Macbook?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by gibson00, Feb 1, 2009.

  1. gibson00

    gibson00 Notebook Evangelist

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    I see that COD4 is available for mac. I assume that means I can install it on Macs own OS (not bootcamp)?
    How well will it run on the 13" Unibody Mac??
     
    gibson00, Feb 1, 2009
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    The GeForce 9400 is not a very powerful card; COD4 will probably run at medium-low settings with fairly playable frame rates.
     
    Bog, Feb 1, 2009
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  3. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    With COD5 in XP Pro in Bootcamp, I get pretty good framrates and gameplay. It is a whole lot better than I thought it would be.
     
    Colton, Feb 1, 2009
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  4. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    It'll work but you need to lower your settings to medium .
     
    bigspin, Feb 1, 2009
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  5. ltcommander_data

    ltcommander_data Notebook Deity

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    http://www.barefeats.com/harper22.html

    There hasn't been benchmarks for the 9400M, but they benchmarked the 9600M GT in the MacBook Pro here. The 9600M GT struggles at 1280x800 on High with 4x AA. As others have said, you'll need to disable AA and run at least at medium.

    And as a note, Call of Duty 4 for Mac is a good port so it's not at fault. Using the ATI HD 3870, Call of Duty 4 for Mac basically matches the fps of the Windows version, which is pretty impressive. It's only nVidia's drivers for Mac have been terrible lately, particularly for the 8xxx and 9xxx series. I believe in the PowerPC days, nVidia's drivers were quest a bit better than ATI's, but that seems to have changed with the switch to Intel. Perhaps nVidia's drivers had a whole bunch of optimizations for PPC which they haven't been able to port over yet while ATI took the Intel switch as a chance to rewrite their drivers. In any case, it makes you wonder why Apple decided to go all nVidia? Especially, because nVidia's Core Image acceleration for Apple's own Pro Apps is so terrible.
     
    ltcommander_data, Feb 2, 2009
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  6. Underpantman

    Underpantman Notebook Virtuoso

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    Just a guess but perhaps people who have a life... and don't spend every minute of said life in a bedroom of their parents house playing WoW.

    But that's just a guess.. I could be wrong.

    @ OP. For some light gaming your probably not gonna miss the AA and high quality graphics that much.. Thus I think you be fine with the 9400 in the mb.

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    Underpantman, Feb 2, 2009
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  7. chen

    chen Notebook Deity

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    No problem running COD4 in OSX, I get decent frame rates at med-low settings too. Actually ran better than COD5 on bootcamp XP pro.
     
    chen, Feb 2, 2009
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