PC Games on Intel iMac?

Hey guys,

I've been looking over the whole Boot Camp deal and have been interested in seeing if PC games are being ran on these Intel iMacs using Boot Camp and booting in XP? (I have a G4 Powerbook myself, so I can't try).

If so, how's the performance and how are the video drivers behaving? I'm talking about graphic intensive games where hardware acceleration is needed.

Thanks,

Oleg

It rocks..

My colleague has loaded up quite a few games on his Macbook Pro and it just rocks...
The iMac should be similar in performance...

I just finished loading Rome: Total War, and it's FASTER than anything else I've ever used.

BlindingLights said:

I just finished loading Rome: Total War, and it's FASTER than anything else I've ever used.

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What?? That's one of my favourite games. I've got the whole series. Sheesh, do I have to buy an intel iMac.

Yeah, one of the iMacs in compusa had WoW installed on it, so I decided to type in my account and play for awhile to see how well it ran, and omg...

The display and everything in-game was so beautiful. I had everything turned up and it was cutting through the game like butter - and mind you that WoW is a very graphic intensive game and it ran it just fine with settings all up under Bootcamp.

also the add, the colors of the display are so clear and vivid, it made me drooling.

I just bought one of the new intel imacs a few weeks ago. I have been playing Morrowind: Oblivion through windows on it and holy crap....

I have the graphics, sound, EVERYTHING maxed out, and no lag, nothing. 1.83 intel imac with 512 ram and this is running better than my brothers custom built pentium 4 computer.

i couldnt be happier with the ability to get windows and OSX on the same machine.

Also installed Oblivion and have great gameplay performance.

WoW runs beautifully as well (using the WoW mac client + Universal patch)

My iMac has pwned me =)

cjay said:

What?? That's one of my favourite games. I've got the whole series. Sheesh, do I have to buy an intel iMac.

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Yes, definately get an Intel Mac if you intend to use this. I went TWO MONTHS without R:TW until Apple released Boot Camp, and let me tell you, those were the two worst months of my life gaming wise.

And btw u gonna get Medieval: Total War II?

BlindingLights said:

Yes, definately get an Intel Mac if you intend to use this. I went TWO MONTHS without R:TW until Apple released Boot Camp, and let me tell you, those were the two worst months of my life gaming wise.

And btw u gonna get Medieval: Total War II?

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I've got the first one and barely got to play it on my old PC before it died. I'm definitely looking into selling my G4 mini and replacing it with an iMac.

You know I really miss the old Shogun Total War. Top game.

How do you guys find the graphics card handling all these PC games?

i've been playing oblivion on my imac and i'm totally hooked. it's like crack.

I've been thinking about trying to do OSX -> X11 -> Cedega for playing Win32 games... I don't know how well the OSX -> X11 conversion goes, but if it does.. I know Cedega is pretty good at emulating a lot of games that I play. I purchased it from this fact alone for my *nix boxes


Not that I particularly plan to run many games on a Mac, it would be a nice side bonus.

Yeah, just finished Oblivion install, and I'm hooked.

not entirely off-topic...but on the boot camp install instructions it says a usb keyboard and mouse are required. does this mean specifically that my wireless keyboard and mouse wouldnt work? thank you

-Tyler

TBoblp said:

not entirely off-topic...but on the boot camp install instructions it says a usb keyboard and mouse are required. does this mean specifically that my wireless keyboard and mouse wouldnt work? thank you

-Tyler

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the wireless keyboard and mouse won't work during windows setup, so i think you just need to plug one in while you're installing windows.

umm two questions
1. does the windows install disk for bootcamp have to be genuine??
2. does anyone know how to run oblivion through darwine apparently its possible i can install it but it crashes whenever i try to play it

thx

1.) No
2.) sorry, don't know.

To the original poster - installing Windows on a Mac machine is no different from running it on a PC. Your Mac 'is' a PC when it is running Windows.