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    Spore on Macbook?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Vaath, Aug 6, 2009.

  1. Vaath

    Vaath Notebook Deity

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    Hey all,

    I'm a spore addict and getting back into it, and I was reading my Spore box randomly when cleaning my desk and got to wondering how it would run on my Macbook?

    Requirements:

    Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
    Processor : Intel Core Duo Processor
    RAM : 1024 MB RAM
    Video Card : ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100

    I didn't know whether this should go in gaming section or not, but I figured I could reach more fellow Mac users here who have played it.

    My Macbook is a "Whitebook" running system 10.5

    Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0ghz
    4 gig DDR2 of ram
    9400m video card

    If this needs to be moved to gaming thats fine. So any Spore players play through OS X? If you have a Macbook what settings are you running and about what FPS you average?

    Thnx!
     
    Vaath, Aug 6, 2009
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  2. TevashSzat

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    Well, I've managed to run Spore decently (at low-medium settings) with a 4 year old desktop (windows xp) running a Pentium 4 (3.2 GHz), 1GB RAM, and a horrendous Radeon X300 so I have very little doubt that it should run fine on your Mac.
     
    TevashSzat, Aug 7, 2009
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  3. Luke1708

    Luke1708 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    yes, it should run spore perfectly.
     
    Luke1708, Aug 8, 2009
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  4. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    SHOULD is the key word, depends on how crappy they ported it. The Sims 3 was horrible in OS X but when played in bootcamp it was perfect.
     
    Seshan, Aug 8, 2009
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  5. Lyanowu

    Lyanowu Notebook Consultant

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    Yes, I play Sims 3 with a macbook.
     
    Lyanowu, Aug 9, 2009
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  6. BlackMac

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    Spore and the Sims 3 ran fine on OSX on my MB, but I have them in Windows 7 now, I get 5-10 more fps.
     
    BlackMac, Aug 9, 2009
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    being Sims3 and Spore both run under Cider... they are not native ports... you will lose a slight amount of performance compared to a properly made native port. Thats not so bad since most Mac native ports made are done so poorly that Cider actually runs them better.
     
    doh123, Aug 9, 2009
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  8. aigoya

    aigoya Notebook Guru

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    i have the 2.5ghz march 2008 model with the 8600m nvidia gpu. I ran spore fine, just not on high quality. i also played sims3 on it. i think your mac should run it smoother than mine.
     
    aigoya, Aug 10, 2009
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  9. Vaath

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    Mine should run slower actually, you have 500mhz and a faster video card than me. But i'll be perfectly happy at low-mediumish :)
     
    Vaath, Aug 10, 2009
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