Video Card in Macbook

What is it? How is it? What games would it run?

 

intel gma 950. its not very good, its definitely not designed to play any 3d games. the games it can play reasonably are several years old.

it will run half life 2 at very low settings and resolution. that is the best it can do.

it MIGHT be able to run doom 3 or quake 4, but even at low settings the framerate will make it unplayable.

it cannot run new games like tom clancy rainbow six vegas, or ut3, bioshock, crysis. that sort of thing.

 

Take a look at the GPU guide.

 

It will run Counter-Strike 1.6 on full setting flawlessy 100FPS - i know cause i have one and play it all the time.

 

What games/types of games do you plan to play on the MB?


The GMA 950 isnt designed for gaming but it can handle games(mainly older titles).

Take a look at the GMA 950 Screenshot thread. It shows various screen shots of games that you might be interested in and their quality/settings/problems/"playability".

 

oh yeah. obviously if you go back a few years you can find some great hits.

enemy territory: castle wolfenstein

halo

cs 1.6 / original half life

quake III

ut2004 on lower settings

i think it runs C&C 3 ok, but any previous C&C will stand up better.

 

only thing i play is warcraft.

 

Yeah as long as it's Warcraft 1-3... World of Warcraft once you hit expansion areas... or BG's worthless to even bother.

Macbook Pro FTW if you want to play like that decently

 

Hey stealthsniper do you play The Frozen Throne? What Gateway do you play on? What's your screenname? I play on Azeroth and my screenname is LearningNElves

 

no. right now i just play the warcraft 3 demo but i have been doin a little bit of looking around lately for a full version of a game. how well does the frozen throne run on macbooks?

 

hmmmm give me 45 minutes... I'll install my copy on this macbook... and let ya know!

 

Aright took me 30 minutes!

So I installed Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos.. Without playing it I then installed the expansion Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne
Then without playing it I went to http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=mwr0744p and downloaded the latest patch for the game. Scroll down till you hit "universal"

Now the reason you need to install this patch immediately is that it patches the mac version of the WC3 game to make it usable on the intel based mac machines. Anyway I went to run the game and the highest resolution available 1280x800x32 I had it set to and I had ALL setting MAXED. I did a skirmish game and the Frames per second was between 45-65... So all in all the game runs beautifully.. Now for my current system specs I ran it on it is the following:


Macbook:
2.0 Ghz
1Gb RAM
Integrated Vid card
80 Gb HDD 5400 RPM

So as you can see it's low-end of the current macbooks. But anyway yeah the game is pretty old so it's expected it'd run well on a new integrated card.


Enjoy!

 

ok thats just what i needed thanks!

 

Warcraft III will run at max even on an Intel GMA 830 the 950 thrashes it (lol integrated card comparison)

 

can it run need for speed carbon?
i tried, and im not so sure..
-.-