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    Hearts of Iron 3 and MBP 13" (2011)

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by arnold-edward, Aug 3, 2011.

  1. arnold-edward

    arnold-edward Notebook Consultant

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    Despite all of my looking I cannot find anyone saying whether hearts of iron 3 plays well on the MBP. I am not really into heavy gaming but I would seriously consider not getting the new MBP if I cannot play this game.

    Thanks for any help!
     
    arnold-edward, Aug 3, 2011
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  2. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    I will install and give you feedback, but EU3 works fine, actually it runs faster than on my core 2 duo machine, even taking into account the 4670m GDDR3 that it packed
     
    Karamazovmm, Aug 5, 2011
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    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    It runs great, AAx4

    those are more cpu intensive games, than gpu as I said before
     
    Karamazovmm, Aug 5, 2011
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    prebstah Notebook Enthusiast

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    Great. Can´t belive that someone else had the same question as me. However, did you run that game through bootcamp or how did you run it?

    I assume that HOI3 will then run even better on MBP 15¨ with improved CPU and GPU.

    Thanks.
     
    prebstah, Aug 5, 2011
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  5. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    HOI3 is steam play, EU3 as well.

    I dont know if the game is multithreaded, if not, you will have a slight advantage of what I saw here

    I have bought the expansions for EU3 (HTT and DW), still waiting for the s that port the game to make them available on steam play. And from their answers there is no way that they are going to do that, too bad I was waiting for that
     
    Karamazovmm, Aug 5, 2011
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