thechung Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 hi, most people can get many apps to work (every app i got works perfect) but has anyone tried to play native ppc mac games on their x86 yet? I tried zoo tycoon, got to the menu and the game closed itself. Would this be a opengl problem or is the 8mb graphics mem on 915 not good enough? i remember someone got quake 3 and ut2004 to work, anyone tried? thechung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryder Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Any games I've tried that are played in a "window" played fine (can't remember which ones, but I tried a couple). But any games that switched to full-screen crapped out. Not sure why. I posted a message in the forum with screenshots. Just do a search for it. By the way, you can increase the starting Video RAM on the 915g from 8 MB to 32 in the BIOS, and change the other settings for higher video performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thechung Posted September 18, 2005 Author Share Posted September 18, 2005 By the way, you can increase the starting Video RAM on the 915g from 8 MB to 32 in the BIOS, and change the other settings for higher video performance. i have tried to change it but whatever i do, at start (ie vesa 3) says 7mb there are 2 different types of mem that can be config, i cant remember what they were called but i am pretty sure it doesn't get recognised in osx. They seem to be secondary options as the main one is either 1mb or 8mb. The other two can be set to fix at 32, 64 or something like that but there is no difference, not even in winxp. It must be my bios version, i think it is american megatrends (asus p5gdc-v) ver.1011 (latest i think) so can you give some details on how to change, even just for your bios... cause i might consider flashing back a couple of releases to try things out. thanks thechung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swag Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Unreal Tournament runs really good on my system. Fullscreen and everything. Zoo Tycoon also works, although a bit slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkblt Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Luxor works great, fullscreen and windowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salax Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Any games I've tried that are played in a "window" played fine (can't remember which ones, but I tried a couple). But any games that switched to full-screen crapped out. Not sure why. I posted a message in the forum with screenshots. Just do a search for it. By the way, you can increase the starting Video RAM on the 915g from 8 MB to 32 in the BIOS, and change the other settings for higher video performance. Can you please describe the way you increased video RAM for the 915g from your BIOS? I'd be gratefull. I ran Quake Arena III real nice in full screen, but would anyway want to give my 915 as much ram as possible. Thanx in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoebus Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Tried Quake II and Quake III Arena recompiled for x86 on a 915 mobo, none worked. Strangely enough, the PPC versions of the same games do run fine. Wolfenstein 3d runs, and sufficiently fast. Legacy Doom also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outoftheboxx10 Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 By the way, you can increase the starting Video RAM on the 915g from 8 MB to 32 in the BIOS, and change the other settings for higher video performance. depends on mobo and bios manufacturer, also regardless of what it says when it starts.....the reserving of video memory is dynamic....aka it reserves more as it needs it....even tho it only says 7mb....it will reserve more and work fine as it needs it....dont let anyone tell you that thats all the memory it will ever use...its only what it starts with also hit the forums and search for stuff on the 915....some 915s dont load the proper kexts and you end up either crashing or no QE/QI, PM if you cant find anything on it and i'll try to walk you through it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuxedo Jack Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Apeiron X, Bubble Trouble X, and Maelstrom work just fine. EV Nova goes nuts over monitor depth - I can't get my monitor to change resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryder Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Can you please describe the way you increased video RAM for the 915g from your BIOS? I'd be gratefull. I ran Quake Arena III real nice in full screen, but would anyway want to give my 915 as much ram as possible. Thanx in advance! Here's my bios setting: Video Configuration -> Primary Video Adapter - Auto Frame Buffer Size - 32MB IGD Aperature Size - 256MB DVMT Mode - Both IGD DVMT/Fixed Memory - 128MB Sorry, that's all the info I have for you. I hope it helps you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Clive Barkers Undying works great, the cursor floats away from you though. to fix that, go to the game video options and change drivers from 32bit to 16bit and then back to 32bit, that fixes it. American McGees Alice runs well. Wingnuts runs, don't change video options until you've played the game once or it doesn't play fullscreen. Giants Mecc Demo has no sound, and plays very slowly. Halo doesn't play, the GMA900 has no Hardware Transform & Lighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaman Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Luxor works great, fullscreen and windowed. where can I download the luxor game? thanx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guile Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Hi ! I've already made a topic with some reports. Max Payne works flawlessy (full screen or not), Q3 and Worms 3D too. Age of mythology, Battlefield 1942, MTX Mototrax and GhostMaster crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HShin Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Halo doesn't play, the GMA900 has no Hardware Transform & Lighting. I don't think that's the case. Check 3D Graphics Pipeline on this page. And anyway Halo has been known to run even on the first generation Radeon (PCI) and G3 processor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbert Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 I don't think that's the case. Check 3D Graphics Pipeline on this page. And anyway Halo has been known to run even on the first generation Radeon (PCI) and G3 processor! how come no one is commenting on whether it works on WOW! i haven't tried it yet. Its a long install and i have to find my cds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfreitas Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 HALO, realy dont play at all, i have tried many times, with diferent configurations... RETURN TO CASTLE OF WOLFSTEIN runs smooth fullscreen, HIGH detail... super duper !! other cool thing that runs is LUCAS ARTS GAMES emulated by SCUMVM runs fast and super cool. still looking for more hardcore games that runs!! any ideas ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 i have tried to change it but whatever i do, at start (ie vesa 3) says 7mb there are 2 different types of mem that can be config, i cant remember what they were called but i am pretty sure it doesn't get recognised in osx. They seem to be secondary options as the main one is either 1mb or 8mb. The other two can be set to fix at 32, 64 or something like that but there is no difference, not even in winxp. It must be my bios version, i think it is american megatrends (asus p5gdc-v) ver.1011 (latest i think) so can you give some details on how to change, even just for your bios... cause i might consider flashing back a couple of releases to try things out. thanks thechung It is your bios version. U need the 1008 version, which still has the ability to give up to 32 mb to the videocard. The newer bios versions have only 8 mb max and the other part of the memory is dynamic allocated. Great for Windows which supports it, but not so great for osx which doesn't support that trick. You can flash your bios in dos with afudos + the 1008 rom file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Chuck Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Monopoly for OSX crashes sometimes, but does work. I've also got Quake 3 working, and I still have to try UT2004 out (didn't had any time to search for a serial for it) Although the GMA900 isn't really state of the art when it comes to playing games, it can be done and it even runs at acceptable speeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisbadenov Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Just thought I would put in my 2 cents worth. I have got both Civilization 3 and Rise of Nations Gold installed on my system. Civ works great but Rise, I haven't tried out 100% but it does seem just a tiny slow compared to the same game on XP but still very playable, I'm just being picky. I also have all of MS Office 2004 and iLife '06 installed and working well. I am running OSX86 10.4.5 Celeron 330J 2.66Ghz Processor ASRock 775 Dual mobo gma900 graphics built in sound card sata 300gb drive MAd-dog dvd/cd writer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 You wanna try doom 3 and ut2004 m8 they run real sweet just as good as on my pc side hehe Richocet lost worlds ---- full screen and windowed Luxor amun rising ---- Fullscreen and windowed Sims 2 ---- Windowed Break Quest ---- windowed Mame ----- fullscreen and windowed Power64 ---- fullscreen and windowed Arnold ---- Fullscreen and windowed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam2 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 UT2004 Demo does not work for me and neither do the Trial or Retail versions of Halo. ( I downloaded the retail but I own the PC version, cut me some slack!) I haven't done a lot of research on the games yet though so it may be because I'm running nVidia? AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice (SSE, SSE2, SSE3) Asus A8N-E BFG GeForce 6600 GT OC Cosair 2x512 (XMMS or something) No Sound ADMTek 983 PCI Ethernet Maxtor 60GB ATA HDD (No SATA or full use of ATA drive yet!) D: I installed the homemade nVidia drivers for OSX and all went fine, but nothing feels different. The system at least recognizes the videocard vendor and ID. When I load UT2004 it shows the slash screen then the screen flashes black quickly and it exits (X11 terminal tells me its an opengl thing) and Halo loads but gives me an "unretreivable error" or something and quits too. Also, I'm using an untouched CoreGraphics file and an untouched kernel to fully use my SSE3. I really want to get games running so I can see how they are. It may sound silly, but if I can run some games decently I might consider getting a Mac for gaming! XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New001 Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 UT2004 Demo does not work for me and neither do the Trial or Retail versions of Halo. ( I downloaded the retail but I own the PC version, cut me some slack!) I haven't done a lot of research on the games yet though so it may be because I'm running nVidia? AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice (SSE, SSE2, SSE3) Asus A8N-E BFG GeForce 6600 GT OC Cosair 2x512 (XMMS or something) No Sound ADMTek 983 PCI Ethernet Maxtor 60GB ATA HDD (No SATA or full use of ATA drive yet!) D: I installed the homemade nVidia drivers for OSX and all went fine, but nothing feels different. The system at least recognizes the videocard vendor and ID. When I load UT2004 it shows the slash screen then the screen flashes black quickly and it exits (X11 terminal tells me its an opengl thing) and Halo loads but gives me an "unretreivable error" or something and quits too. Also, I'm using an untouched CoreGraphics file and an untouched kernel to fully use my SSE3. I really want to get games running so I can see how they are. It may sound silly, but if I can run some games decently I might consider getting a Mac for gaming! XD Halo - the unretreivable error is that it can't find any OpenGL drivers loaded. UT2004 quits because it can't bind any OpenGL driver to the OpenGL library (again, because you have no OpenGL driver loaded). Your nVidia card is why you have no drivers loaded - they didn't work in 10.4.1 or in any OS X x86 version so far. On the other hand, both games run awesome on my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fOZf8 Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 The original Unreal Tourny runs great at max settings for me Sims2 runs full screen, but freezes when I enter a house...havent tried it windowed yet, not sure how. Would love to get ut2004 going, having issues with it though PIV 530 3ghz MSI 915 GM-fr Intel int GMA 900 1gb dual ch 400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 UT2004 Full version works here. The only problem is the mouse disappearing after exiting, forcing me to reboot. I do expeince graphic lags at UT setting 1280x1024x24, all other UT setting at default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New001 Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 UT2004 Full version works here. The only problem is the mouse disappearing after exiting, forcing me to reboot. I do expeince graphic lags at UT setting 1280x1024x24, all other UT setting at default. Your CPU has no SSE3. That's why it's slow with UT2004. My Hackintosh gets about 40-50FPS on many maps with maximum quality at 1024x768 (my max res). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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