Gaming on Leopard OSx86 ... anyone tried?

[rohitkpatil]

Hi,

Many of us have good hardware and getting good Xbench scores.
My score without disk test = 155 (eVGA 8800GT SC 512 MB)
Any of you have tried 3D games ?
Command and conquer 3 etc. ??
Do they run on AMD based OSx86 comp ?

Please post your success stories with the procedure.

[crawle]

I (unfortunally very reguallary ^^) play World of Warcraft (The Burning Crusade). Runs pretty good on my Hack, with my GeForce 6600 GT even on full graphics settings, but it crashes about every 2 hours. But this doesn't prevent me playing WoW. ;-)

-crawle

[rohitkpatil]

Ok, I just now tested Command & Conquer 3: Teb. Wars...on my 8800 GT, running perfectly at high settings on full 1680x1050 resolution.

Just played for 10 Mins, so i dont know if it will crash or not. Lets see.

[Taisto]

i`m playing Might And Magic series :D part 7 at the moment, using VMware Fusion. Works perfectly.

[Puttabong]

@rohikpatil, any game should run flawlessly, as long as one has Quartz Extreme & Core Image enabled.

[zuz242]

tombraider is running fine, being ported to mac.
there is even a demo avaliable.

[naquaada]

The name 'Lara Croft' is the only character name I can remember of these new 3D games. But this game is about 10 years old. Characters of classic games from the 80's and 90's, like Indiana Jones, Zak McKracken, the Caponians, Guybrush Threepwood, LeChuck, Elaine Marley, the Voodoo Lady, Herman Toothroth, The Vegetarian Canibals, Roger Wilco or Leisure Suit Larry and the Maniac Mansion Cast (especcially Dave, Bernard, the Edisons and the green and purple Tentacle) you'll never forget.

[milanca]

@naquaada

.. and Manny Calavera as well, hehehe, when you said LeChuck.

I downloaded recently good old Doom2 from macfile.org, updated textures, etc.

[naquaada]

These were the beginning of vectorized 3D Adventures: Castle Master on the Amiga (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na2O4Ztx7lk). This game was also available on the C64 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv1OFYH9SYo&feature=related) and even the ZX Spectrum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyFK6xqjms4&feature=related). On the C64 it's rather slow, but with higer speed in an emulator or with an accelerator card it's great. They also released an '3D Construction Kit' with which you can do games like this of your own.

Another vector-based, but 2D game was Another World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw). The special feature of this game was the extreme realistic movements to these times. As I know the programmer filmed his brother and used these sequences for the game.

The game Moonstone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLMFybclOJM&feature=related) was indexed at these times, claimed to be too brutal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5CZ6TqCgps&feature=related). Compare it to todays games... ;-)

[naquaada]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4SCSGRVAQE&feature=related) was also only working with these great amiga drives ;-) But also a Sacnner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tatiU2ha0&feature=related) is rather good at this.

[Redline]

surprised no one mentioned crossover. the crossover "games" ver has better support for graphics.

I can play HL based games without too many problems. the only significant one is when graphics try to do transparencies, then it slows down

not all games work. I tried installing some older ones, but no luck. support for a given game is based on demand.

but I've been mainly spending game time on the 360, as its just easier to deal

[pαuℓzurrr.]

I'm waiting for COD4 to come out for mac :)

[naquaada]

I use Crossover Games. I've installed TrackMania and Monkey Island 3 and Indiana Jones 5 for testing. But I don't play too often, I prefer watching Longplays ;-) Too bad that Lego Indiana Jones isn't working in Crossover Games :-(

[crawle]

Lego rulez!