jhonny0099 Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I've tried a few game demos on my hackintosh. Quake 4 graphics run decent, but no sound because I don't have OpenAL. I have a good Geforce 6600GT with Titan.kext, but I'm getting extremely poor performance in other (older) games (Call of Duty 2, Halo, etc). I'm wondering if Titan is missing some elements of a true Nvidia driver. Am I supposed to install a natit driver before titan? Is Titan supposed to run as a "team" with natit, or are they the same thing? It seems like some games are not fully utilizing my card, and look like they're runnig in software mode. Is Titan missing proper OpenGL API? I don't understand why Quake4 would run well and not others. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 hi m8 problem is apples opengl is utter {censored} ive just bought a 7600gt and ive got same issues as you, And natit and titan are different but they do same job they both just tell the system what to do with the drivers is all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykell9999 Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 i get decent performance from halo (ub), settings are 'pixel + shaders' mode, detail objects unchecked, fsaa off, lens flare low, model detail high res: 1024x768. Never really checked the frame rates, but i can play it fine. my video card is a lowly geforce 6500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMX-Knuckles Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 I doubt it's Apple's OpenGL completely at fault. Those games are probably running in Rosetta which is causing the poor performance. Honestly, in UT2k4, Quake 4, Doom 3 and Prey I've seen performance very very close to the Windows versions on the same system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaDonkey Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Exactly my experience. Prey Universal runs beautifully, where powerPC games like halo runs much slower. There is a new patch that microsoft/bungee released to make Halo a universal binary for Intels. However, it is not free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 It's easier to blame Apple than it is to understand the problem, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 You have got to remember that theses driver are hacked, Nvidia dont even have any official drivers for OS X so dont expect the optimizations to be as much as Windows or even Linux. I've found UT2004/Doom3 play better in Linux. Also 1080p trailers get slight slowness randomly so the drivers are not optimized as much as they could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wenle Z. Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 i used to have a Pentium D 940 with 2GB of RAM, and a 7600GT. the video is so slow , that i had hard time to play Warcraft3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 (edited) You have got to remember that theses driver are hacked, Nvidia dont even have any official drivers for OS X so dont expect the optimizations to be as much as Windows or even Linux. I've found UT2004/Doom3 play better in Linux. Also 1080p trailers get slight slowness randomly so the drivers are not optimized as much as they could be. EDIT: Duplicate post for some reason, sorry. The drivers arent hacked at all actually they are origonal untouched apple drivers Edited February 18, 2007 by curlyboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vin Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 i used to have a Pentium D 940 with 2GB of RAM, and a 7600GT.the video is so slow , that i had hard time to play Warcraft3 what kind of video? do you try VLC player? As for W3, do you update the latest patch which is UB (Universal Binary). I run W3(with the latest patch) about the same speed as in winxp. Btw, my pc rig is PD 2.66Ghz with 768mb RAM only and with Nvidia6800XT. Since my rig can play smoothly, i don't think yours had a big problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone Like The Wind Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 It's easier to blame Apple than it is to understand the problem, though. Its quite easy to blame apple when game developers say that OpenGL in OSX is utter {censored}. look at the actual % of implemented opengl 2.0 and 2.1 its appauling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 And in the Windows drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wenle Z. Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 what kind of video? do you try VLC player? As for W3, do you update the latest patch which is UB (Universal Binary). I run W3(with the latest patch) about the same speed as in winxp. Btw, my pc rig is PD 2.66Ghz with 768mb RAM only and with Nvidia6800XT. Since my rig can play smoothly, i don't think yours had a big problem i mean, when i play WC3, i had to turn the details down just to have decent framerate in game. i don't know why it lags alot. it takes long to load than in windows too. I have a MSI NEo with 945G Chipset(can be 945p, can't remember) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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