Will Halo run fine on my Powerbook?

[fuzzy_logic]

Thinking of getting a game to play after my finals. I just wanna make sure: will Halo run fine on my Powerbook 12" 1.33GHz with 768MB RAM. How about UT2003 (does it run under classic or OS X)?

Suggestions of other games are welcome too.

Thanks in advance!

[Martog]

What video card does the PB have?

[Gary_Player]

UT2003 and 2004 run in OSX

His powerbook has a geforcefx 5200 w64MB vram

I havent tried HALO yet but UT works okay...onslaught slaughters it but deathmatches and CTF are still doable...although they have to be at lower res :no:

[mikedc1760]

Believe it or not but UT2K4 ran good on my new stock iBook.

[SPeedY_B]

UT2004 runs lovely on my iBook (1GHz G4, 786mb Memory) I was very surprised when I tried the demo on it, so much I went and installed the full game :) I will admit it strugles a bit when there's a lot on screen, but I'm still using default settings so I imagine it could be tweaked.

As for Halo, it ran like a dog on my PowerMac, so I daren't even try it on the iBook, it's just a bad port, and for what I've heard it just runs horrid for most people anyway :\

[AMD60305]

Odd, Halo runs fine for me on my brother's 1.25GHz iMac G4 with 768MB of RAM. it runs ok on my mom's 800MHz iBook G4, I got it to run on my iMac G3 but there were not any textures.

[SonComet]

Halo for the pc and mac seem to be very poorly developed. Its extremely slow on pcs for almost no reason other than a bad port. I get about the same fps in halo that I get in doom 3, lol. It's a shame it seems like it got the same treatment on the mac.

[Dark_INk]

UT2004 runs lovely on my iBook (1GHz G4, 786mb Memory) I was very surprised when I tried the demo on it, so much I went and installed the full game :) I will admit it strugles a bit when there's a lot on screen, but I'm still using default settings so I imagine it could be tweaked.

As for Halo, it ran like a dog on my PowerMac, so I daren't even try it on the iBook, it's just a bad port, and for what I've heard it just runs horrid for most people anyway :\

585053653[/snapback]

actually, contrary to popular belief- it's not a bad port.

[rajputwarrior]

Believe it or not but UT2K4 ran good on my new stock iBook.

585052655[/snapback]

same for me!

[fuzzy_logic]

UT2004 runs lovely on my iBook (1GHz G4, 786mb Memory) I was very surprised when I tried the demo on it, so much I went and installed the full game :) I will admit it strugles a bit when there's a lot on screen, but I'm still using default settings so I imagine it could be tweaked.

As for Halo, it ran like a dog on my PowerMac, so I daren't even try it on the iBook, it's just a bad port, and for what I've heard it just runs horrid for most people anyway :\

585053653[/snapback]

Hmmm, I may give UT2004 a try then. Does the real game run at about the same speed as the demo?

[VGVL]

Hmmm, I may give UT2004 a try then. Does the real game run at about the same speed as the demo?

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The retail version for Mac runs faster than the demo.

[Gary_Player]

The early demo had an audio bug that slowed it down alot...i think they've fixed it since...I haven't compared the two since but the retail definetly was faster before (Y)

My GF4 ti4400 had more balls than this damn 5200 though :no: we all knew it would be that way but it still kinda sucks

[dougkinzinger]

Yes, I'd take a 4400 over a 5200 anyday too!!

--DK

[Freakz]

The early demo had an audio bug that slowed it down alot...i think they've fixed it since...I haven't compared the two since but the retail definetly was faster before (Y)

My GF4 ti4400 had more balls than this damn 5200 though :no: we all knew it would be that way but it still kinda sucks

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this is the prime reason i went for the 15" powerbook.. the 9700 is so much better

[oik]

they both love ram... the biggest framerate drops you will experience will be when something needs to be paged out. i went from 512mb to 1gb and the difference was stunning (ut2k4, 1.5ghz pbook). and don't forget, the more bots/ai that are around, the bigger the performance hit.

[BTallack]

First of all, you guys do realize that Halo was originally going to be a Mac only game before Microsoft bought Bungie, right? So it was technically ported to Xbox from Mac, not vice-versa.

Second, UT2k4 and Halo both run fine on my 12" Powerbook 1Ghz with 512mb of ram. Not beautifully, but fully playable.

[rajputwarrior]

not necessarily, microsoft made it an xbox exclusive then released it later for pc and mac with no original plans of doing so, and why do u think macsoft made the port and not bungie just making the game themselfs?

Edited December 12, 2004 by rajputwarrior

[D0401]

Thinking of getting a game to play after my finals. I just wanna make sure: will Halo run fine on my Powerbook 12" 1.33GHz with 768MB RAM. How about UT2003 (does it run under classic or OS X)?

Suggestions of other games are welcome too.

Thanks in advance!

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yes those games will run fine. i ran halo on my 1ghz powerbook with decent play