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<blockquote data-quote="varney" data-source="post: 896297" data-attributes="member: 83072"><p>Hi Folks,</p><p></p><p>In a nutshell my question is - can Empire Total War be played on a MacBook which has a Windows partition?</p><p></p><p>I'm been running Windows on my Macbook after partitioning the hard drive a few months back and my son and I have happily played Rome Total War with no problems. </p><p></p><p>Having heard about ETW I read up a bit on it and though the forums show lots of problems with bugs / patches plus frustration with having to operate the game through Steam we nevertheless decided to buy the game and give it a try. </p><p></p><p>I loaded it on to my Windows today and everything seems to go okay apart from having to change the filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS, which was easy enough to do thanks to the article I was directed to. </p><p></p><p>I haven't been able to launch the game but I think this may be down to the Steam client which you have to use. </p><p></p><p>However, I'm now also concerned my system may not be able to run the game if I were able to launch it. My Windows set up has 30gb of hard drive space with 2gb of RAM, which meets the specs, but I've been told my graphics card is 'integrated' which I'm led to believe is not up to requirement? Can anyone advise me if this is so? Is it possible to change or upgrade to another graphics card that will work? </p><p>Any help would be most gratefully received. </p><p></p><p>Thank you, </p><p>Michael.</p><p>PS - my specs:</p><p>Hardware Overview:</p><p></p><p>Model Name: MacBook</p><p>Model Identifier: MacBook4,1</p><p>Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo</p><p>Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz</p><p>Number Of Processors: 1</p><p>Total Number Of Cores: 2</p><p>L2 Cache: 3 MB</p><p>Memory: 2 GB</p><p>Bus Speed: 800 MHz</p><p>Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00</p><p>SMC Version: 1.31f0</p><p>Serial Number: WQ808H7F0P1</p><p>Sudden Motion Sensor:</p><p>State: Enabled</p><p>Intel GMA X3100:</p><p></p><p>Chipset Model: GMA X3100</p><p>Type: Display</p><p>Bus: Built-In</p><p>VRAM (Total): 144 MB</p><p>Vendor: Intel (0x8086)</p><p>Device ID: 0x2a02</p><p>Revision ID: 0x0003</p><p>Displays:</p><p>Color LCD:</p><p>Display Type: LCD</p><p>Resolution: 1280 x 800</p><p>Depth: 32-bit Color</p><p>Built-In: Yes</p><p>Core Image: Hardware Accelerated</p><p>Main Display: Yes</p><p>Mirror: Off</p><p>Online: Yes</p><p>Quartz Extreme: Supported</p><p>Display Connector:</p><p>Status: No display connected</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="varney, post: 896297, member: 83072"] Hi Folks, In a nutshell my question is - can Empire Total War be played on a MacBook which has a Windows partition? I'm been running Windows on my Macbook after partitioning the hard drive a few months back and my son and I have happily played Rome Total War with no problems. Having heard about ETW I read up a bit on it and though the forums show lots of problems with bugs / patches plus frustration with having to operate the game through Steam we nevertheless decided to buy the game and give it a try. I loaded it on to my Windows today and everything seems to go okay apart from having to change the filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS, which was easy enough to do thanks to the article I was directed to. I haven't been able to launch the game but I think this may be down to the Steam client which you have to use. However, I'm now also concerned my system may not be able to run the game if I were able to launch it. My Windows set up has 30gb of hard drive space with 2gb of RAM, which meets the specs, but I've been told my graphics card is 'integrated' which I'm led to believe is not up to requirement? Can anyone advise me if this is so? Is it possible to change or upgrade to another graphics card that will work? Any help would be most gratefully received. Thank you, Michael. PS - my specs: Hardware Overview: Model Name: MacBook Model Identifier: MacBook4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00 SMC Version: 1.31f0 Serial Number: WQ808H7F0P1 Sudden Motion Sensor: State: Enabled Intel GMA X3100: Chipset Model: GMA X3100 Type: Display Bus: Built-In VRAM (Total): 144 MB Vendor: Intel (0x8086) Device ID: 0x2a02 Revision ID: 0x0003 Displays: Color LCD: Display Type: LCD Resolution: 1280 x 800 Depth: 32-bit Color Built-In: Yes Core Image: Hardware Accelerated Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported Display Connector: Status: No display connected [/QUOTE]
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