eire3678 Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 I'm generally at my FPS cap of 60 all the time with everything turned up. It only drops if I get 15+ mobs on my screen at once, and even then it never drops below 40. Moving from an old dual 533MHz G4 to this is like going from the dark ages to the Renaissance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guice Posted April 17, 2007 Author Share Posted April 17, 2007 So you have the same performance and quality now under OSX compared to Windows XP? Because I am running a P4 3.0Ghz Northwood SSE2, 1.5GB Ram and a 6600GT and I can turn everything to max in Windows XP and the framerate like never drops under 20 anywhere. If I did that in OSX the game just doesn't run. Or you got a Prescott with SSE3 support? That might be the problem. Edit: I see you got a Prescott in your signature, well I guess I need to find a Prescott instead of a Northwood, though they seem to make a lot more heat. Prescott? No. that's not my sig you saw. I use AMD. And the performance was near close. It was comparable indeed, but definitely not as good. It was very playable, but not as high as I would expect on XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 works great here WOW 2.0.12+MACOS 10.4.9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theacolyte Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Any of you getting a ton of latency with 2.0.12? I'll be playing for about 1-2 minutes and all of a sudden I'll go up to about 2000-10000 ms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rathalos Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 wow running great on my sse2 machine, with 10.4.9..... getting fps of 40+ all the way up to 100+ max..... only drops to about 20+ when focus of the window is on another application....... i run wow in a window..... to prevent the nasty mouse distortion, which can be cured with cscreen terminal command..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 I don't play WoW any more, so I can't test it on my Hackintosh, but when we built my boyfriend's Hackintosh with Core 2 Duo (E6320 clocked at 3.0GHz) and 7600GT, he got 60 fps with all settings at max running at 1440x900. I think the frame rate was capped at 60, since it never got above even for a second, but rarely dropped below. We didn't bother trying it at lower settings. He was using a 2.4GHz P4 with Radeon 9250 before, so it was a huge increase for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douggle Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 I have no issue running WOW @ 1280.x1024 60 hz runs extremely smooth way smoother than it does on windows side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bptba93 Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 I get about 10FPS less on OS X than Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Running at 1440x900 with a GMA950 gets around 50-60 FPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Running at 1440x900 with a GMA950 gets around 5-6 FPS. Fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithium06 Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I have a C2D 4400, MSI P6N-SLI, EVGA 7950GT (256mb), 2 Gig RAM but when i play WoW on my hackintosh about an hour in it'll just totally freeze on me. any ideas? pretty sure it's not overheating, i have all power settings set to never and i have 'jiggler' running just incase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Try on Windows if it freezes. So we know if it's OSX related or not. But it shouldn't freeze anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithium06 Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 i play it on windows now b/c it doesnt freeze on windows. i am going to try a re-install later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiko Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I get equal FPS but the game is smoother in XP, not sure why. Think it has something to do with the mouse. But, I have one issue though. When I enter a city multisampling is turned off! Anyone know how to fix that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Which video card are you using ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubhead Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Well i just noticed that with my previous onboard Video GMA 950 i had 270 frames in Xbench OpenGL test but yesterday i switched to a Nvidia 7300GS 256mb and i get only 123 frames OpenGL with it..that s*** kinda. Whereas performance in Photoshop and AfterFX drastically went up.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiko Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Which video card are you using ? A flashed 7950GT 512mb. It's odd, the moment I zone into a city, multisampling is disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Well i just noticed that with my previous onboard Video GMA 950 i had 270 frames in Xbench OpenGL test but yesterday i switched to a Nvidia 7300GS 256mb and i get only 123 frames OpenGL with it..that s*** kinda. Whereas performance in Photoshop and AfterFX drastically went up.. XBench's graphics test scores may as well be new Random().nextInt(300); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 A flashed 7950GT 512mb. It's odd, the moment I zone into a city, multisampling is disabled. Well I dunno then since it should work :/ Thought you add some Radeon 9700/9800 or something, that's why I asked. And your mouse shouldn't lag : be sure you checked Hardware cursor in video options. And if you still have that lag you are talking about, try to type : /console GLFaster 1 Let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiko Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Well I dunno then since it should work :/ Thought you add some Radeon 9700/9800 or something, that's why I asked. And your mouse shouldn't lag : be sure you checked Hardware cursor in video options. And if you still have that lag you are talking about, try to type : /console GLFaster 1 Let me know. Thanks for your replies : ) I can't really point my finger at the mouse issue. I just feels smoother in XP. In general, my mouse experience is different in OS X. I should say, the login and char screens are extremely laggy and a weird sound comes from my video card. The multisampling problem is really puzzling me, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithium06 Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I played WoW lastnight on my hackintosh, it runs so smooth, = to XP imo. but about an hour into killing Troggs, it freezes. so i have to manual reboot . glad when i got back in i was where it frooze at, and not dead. so i am going to try installing call of duty tonight to see if the problem is wow or games in general. i may update to 10.4.9 also. think that would help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 It might be something with your video drivers. What card and driver are you using? I have no problems at all with WoW in JaS 10.4.8 with a 7600GT and Natit 0.2. I can play for 8 hours at a time if I want. Edit: I just looked back and saw you have a 7950GT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithium06 Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I used natit_edited from the osx86 wiki. maybe i should try the Natit_Dual_v0.2? would it be any different? should i try titan? my impression is natit > titan Is your 7600 pcie? did you edit geforce, nvdaresman, natit, and nvdanv40hal kexts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 My 7600GT is PCIe, and I edited nothing. I'm using the GeForce, nvdaresman, and nvdanv*0hal kexts that came with OS X, and Natit is as I downloaded it (Natit 0.2 dual, but only because I have dual displays. No reason to get it if you don't) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithium06 Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 well .9 update broke my system. i even installed the .4 loginwindow app from the cd. frustrating to start all over but i loved mac. may just stay with ubuntu and beryl and running wow on wine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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