Why cant I play games on my hackintosh
I installed iAtkos 5i and managed to get everything work, including my HD 4870 video card. My question is, why am I able to play a demo I downloaded from apples website, but I cant play cod4 that I downloaded from a website. Once it…
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- @zamdam Published 2009-05-06
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I installed iAtkos 5i and managed to get everything work, including my HD 4870 video card.
My question is, why am I able to play a demo I downloaded from apples website, but I cant play cod4 that I downloaded from a website. Once it mounted the .dmg it verified the disk...
But when I go to play it, the screen turns black and then about 5 - 10 seconds later, Im guessing the computer freezes cause my keyboard doesnt do anything when I press caps lock, it has a light on it when i press it to let me know its enabled. Also, my monitors power button starts flashing instead of staying on..?
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Yes, they are enabled.
Im not in front of it right now, but I believe one of them say enabled and the other one says supported?
@naquaadaCore Image and Quartz Extreme are enabled? Look in 'About this Mac' -> More information -> Graphics.
Does anyone have another idea about this issue?
@naquaadaCore Image and Quartz Extreme are enabled? Look in 'About this Mac' -> More information -> Graphics.
Nice.. Let me try that, I will let you know..
@oneshotI have an idea, my screen used to do that when I would play my halo demo in full screen. Oh my Graphix card there where two female inputs that I could plug my cable that goes to my monitor into. All I did was change the port to the one it wasn't plugged into. Lets say its plugged into the 1st port. Try using the second one.
I tried that and it didnt change anything...
I figured it out though.. I must have been getting bad downloads or something, because I downloaded another copy of cod4 and it plays flawlessly. I have everything maxed out.
Thanks though
@zamdamNice.. Let me try that, I will let you know..
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Core Image and Quartz Extreme are enabled? Look in 'About this Mac' -> More information -> Graphics.
I have an idea, my screen used to do that when I would play my halo demo in full screen. Oh my Graphix card there where two female inputs that I could plug my cable that goes to my monitor into. All I did was change the port to the one it wasn't plugged into.
Lets say its plugged into the 1st port. Try using the second one.
I think iAtkos isn't good for playing games...
You should try another distro like iPC,xXx,...or even RETAIL Leopard:-|
The distro should not affect this.
And so you know, Kalyway plays games like a charm.
Try updating to 10.5.7 and then see how your games perform. The 10.5.7 update includes the latest OpenGL extensions which provides better support for that card. From what I understand the HD 4870 that shipped with recent Macs have been using a special build of 10.5.6 that enabled the card to work. However, performance has been noted as particularly buggy in some cases.
Good luck
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @zamdam | Primary Author | 5 | 2009-05-06 → 2009-05-14 |
| @naquaada | Contributor | 1 | 2009-05-06 |
| @oneshot | Contributor | 1 | 2009-05-07 |
| @xmhscratch | Contributor | 1 | 2009-05-14 |
| @Ali C. | Contributor | 1 | 2009-05-15 |
| @R0GUE | Contributor | 1 | 2009-05-15 |