do any of you play games on your powerbook?

[menace3054]

I have a 15" 1.67 ghz g4, with 1.5 GB of ram, and the ATI 9700 (64 mb) video card.. i just tried playing halo, and it was the MOST miserable experience.. and that was with the settings set to low... the graphics were all choppy, and i couldnt aim at people.. have any of you been able to play such games on your pbs?

 

[rs2sensen]

with halo, you should have a window that opens up before the actual application starts, which allows you to select some pretty specific options. the key to getting performance in halo is with that screen. By tweaking those settings, I can get more than playable FPS on my 1.67Ghz 17" model. You won't get too much of a difference by setting the settings found in the actual game.

Unreal Tournament plays well on mine...Battlefield 1942...Ghost Recon...Medal of Honor Spearhead...

Halo should play well, just tweak the settings.

 

[menace3054]

with halo, you should have a window that opens up before the actual application starts, which allows you to select some pretty specific options. the key to getting performance in halo is with that screen. By tweaking those settings, I can get more than playable FPS on my 1.67Ghz 17" model. You won't get too much of a difference by setting the settings found in the actual game.

Unreal Tournament plays well on mine...Battlefield 1942...Ghost Recon...Medal of Honor Spearhead...

Halo should play well, just tweak the settings.

which settings do you recommend i tweak? thanks for the response!

 

[rs2sensen]

It's been a while since I've messed with it. If I recall, the one that made the biggest difference was the lens flare. Might have been other stuff too. Tomorrow I'll drop a post with more specifics of what I have mine set as.

 

[menace3054]

It's been a while since I've messed with it. If I recall, the one that made the biggest difference was the lens flare. Might have been other stuff too. Tomorrow I'll drop a post with more specifics of what I have mine set as.

sweet, thanks

 

[menace3054]

dude, you were totally right. i put lens flare and model detail on medium, and now it runs pretty darn well. thanks !

 

[rs2sensen]

dude, you were totally right. i put lens flare and model detail on medium, and now it runs pretty darn well. thanks !

Glad she's workin for ya. Too bad lens flare has to be turned down, you'll really notice it on the covenant pistol, and weapons like that, but oh well, at least she plays.

 

[inflexion]

raven shield on my old 1Ghz 12" works just nicely and thats all i need

 

[nicklwj]

haha who plays the Spearhead demo here? anyone play the Guam CTF and Bacon servers?

 

[lordsid]

rise of nations on my 12inch

 

[Jonster]

i own neverwinter nights on my 15", but i haven't played it yet.

 

[rberry88]

I play Neverwinter Nights, World of Warcraft and Postal2 on my 15" Powerbook w/ 1GB RAM and the 128MB ATI video card, 1.5 GHz and they all run great.

 

[menace3054]

I play Neverwinter Nights, World of Warcraft and Postal2 on my 15" Powerbook w/ 1GB RAM and the 128MB ATI video card, 1.5 GHz and they all run great.

i wish apple sold upgraded pbs at the apple store.. im a) too impatient to wait for something from the online store. and b) i really needed the computer asap since i sold my old one and had to ship it out..

is the video card on the pb upgradable? i want atleast 128mb of ram...

 

[rman]

Yes you can choose a 128mb upgraded video card on the BTO model of the PowerBook.

 

[Merlinblack]

World of Warcraft for me.

Runs pretty good decent fps throughout

 

[menace3054]

Yes you can choose a 128mb upgraded video card on the BTO model of the PowerBook.

i may be slighly naive, but what does BTO mean? ill probably figure it out as soon as i press reply, but maybe not. lol

 

[menace3054]

i may be slighly naive, but what does BTO mean? ill probably figure it out as soon as i press reply, but maybe not. lol

so i figured it out, like i thought.. build to order.. but my question is that now that i bypassed that, and bought it from the apple store, am i SOL in terms of upgrading?

 

[rman]

You can not upgrade the video card after purchase. It is part of the main logic board.

 

[menace3054]

i guess i could get a new logic board..lol oh well, better for me anyway, time to focus more on school and less on games

 

[Arichards]

just pick up an xbox 360 or a ps 3... whichever your fancy...