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Can my macbook play this? (graphics card problem)

February 13, 2008 11:35:20 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
I have bootcamp with Windows XP. My specs are:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz
2.5GB of RAM

Now here's the tricky part.. the graphics on the macbook is really weak. It's an Intel GMA 950 with 64MB of "shared system memory"
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Reply #1 February 13, 2008 11:39:30 PM
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Yeah, I am running it on bootcamp. All settings at low, and I can't zoom in too far (it doesn't like masses of weapons fire) but it runs (and kicks butt!)
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Reply #2 February 14, 2008 12:14:52 AM
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Sweet! Have you tried running it in Parallels?
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Reply #3 February 14, 2008 11:53:21 AM
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So it runs in Boot Camp on a GMA 950 MacBook? That's spectacular, because I didn't think it would.

Thats great, because that means that my MacBook Air will be able to run it pretty well - GMA X3100.

As far as Parallels, no chance in hell, since Parallels has almost nonexistent DirectX support. I tried it in VMWare Fusion (which has decent DX support) on my MacBook Pro (nVidia GeForce m8600 w/ 256 MB RAM), but it was slow and choppy.

So, to summarize:

Boot Camp, even on MacBook = OK.
Parallels = No way
VMWare = works, but not well
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Reply #4 February 14, 2008 12:03:08 PM
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I can run the game on my work laptop.

965GM
1.8 celeron
1GB Ram

And settings are all on low but runs fine
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Reply #5 May 5, 2011 10:31:44 PM
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odd, ive got this on impulse running parallels on my kick butt mac book pro (brand new so it can run it graphics wise)and when i click run nothing happens!!

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Reply #6 May 6, 2011 1:34:34 AM
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This post was made back in 2008 I'm sure you new mac book is faster then the ones they had back then.

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