children_of_the_dragon Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 This is the most interesting thing I have seen: I have a quad-boot Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X Leopard and Ubuntu. After testing a few identical games on a couple of the OS's, this is what I have found: >Unreal Tournament: runs equally fast on Vista, XP, and Leopard >Doom 3: runs FASTER (WAY WAY WAY faster) on Mac OS X >The Sims 2: runs faster on Vista; on XP frame rate keeps on changing Before I tested it, I was ASSUMING that all games (same titles) would run faster on the Windows OS, vs. the Mac OS (since they all are using the same hardware, namely my HP DV6245CA laptop). But doom 3 is unplayable on the Vista/XP OS, but is lightingly fast on Mac OS X (lowest gfx settings, of course). I'm assuming Window is using DX3D hardware acceleration while Mac OS X is using OpenGL, OPENGL RULES! I'm going to test a few more games later (same titles, differen't platforms), stay tuned! PS: my sys specs: HP DV6245CA (Canadian Edition, lol) 1gb ram 160 gb SATA hd Intel Core 2 Duo Intel GMA 950 gfx card Conexant Audio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nano2k Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 I don't mean to be rude, but making performance comparisons about games when using a GMA950 is not very realistic. I barely consider GMA950 as being enough for running desktop applications so let alone running games. With proper hardware and drivers a Windows machine totally destroys a Mac, Osx is decent for the games that run on it but we are still far away from Windows performance... My 2 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 How about trying to compare the two with a stronger card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zik_man Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 I'm assuming Window is using DX3D hardware acceleration while Mac OS X is using OpenGL, OPENGL RULES! Doom3 is a openGL game, in windows and OSX... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipgeek Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I had been tried to install doom3 on kalyway leopard 10.5.2. it gave me error message like unexpectedly quit, how to fix that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I don't mean to be rude, but making performance comparisons about games when using a GMA950 is not very realistic. I barely consider GMA950 as being enough for running desktop applications so let alone running games.With proper hardware and drivers a Windows machine totally destroys a Mac, Osx is decent for the games that run on it but we are still far away from Windows performance... My 2 cents. Actually, when games are written well for MacOS, they do often run better. OS X uses multithreaded OpenGL. As far as I know, Windows still doesn't. WoW runs much faster in OS X on the same hardware (my boyfriend can get over 200 FPS in OS X on the hackintosh I built for him. It gets closer to 100 with the same settings in Windows). I haven't tested with other games because I haven't really played computer games in years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 WoW does run indeed better on OSX as long as you don't use GMA chips since OSX drivers are crappy And 2.4.2 will run even better, not only thanks to some tweaks, but enabling Full Screen Glow + MSAA won't kill the FPS like before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 yeah, i get over 50% increase in FPS in 2.4.2 with the new FSG mode enabled and multisampling turned on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anddotdotdot Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 This is the most interesting thing I have seen: I have a quad-boot Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X Leopard and Ubuntu. After testing a few identical games on a couple of the OS's, this is what I have found: >Unreal Tournament: runs equally fast on Vista, XP, and Leopard >Doom 3: runs FASTER (WAY WAY WAY faster) on Mac OS X >The Sims 2: runs faster on Vista; on XP frame rate keeps on changing Before I tested it, I was ASSUMING that all games (same titles) would run faster on the Windows OS, vs. the Mac OS (since they all are using the same hardware, namely my HP DV6245CA laptop). But doom 3 is unplayable on the Vista/XP OS, but is lightingly fast on Mac OS X (lowest gfx settings, of course). I'm assuming Window is using DX3D hardware acceleration while Mac OS X is using OpenGL, OPENGL RULES! I'm going to test a few more games later (same titles, differen't platforms), stay tuned! PS: my sys specs: HP DV6245CA (Canadian Edition, lol) 1gb ram 160 gb SATA hd Intel Core 2 Duo Intel GMA 950 gfx card Conexant Audio Hi, I just have a doubt, it has nothing to do with doom 3, but how did you install mac os X on your dv6245, I have the same computer and I have been having a lot of trouble trying to run wifi and wlan using iatkos 5i, could you help me please? thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
children_of_the_dragon Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 Hi, I just have a doubt, it has nothing to do with doom 3, but how did you install mac os X on your dv6245, I have the same computer and I have been having a lot of trouble trying to run wifi and wlan using iatkos 5i, could you help me please? thank you in advance. Well I recently just installed iATKO v7 in a triple boot: Leopard, Windows 7, and newest version of ubuntu (9.04 I think). Now I'm getting a lot more crashes in Leopard than before (I think when I wrote the initial post I was using iATKO v5). Listen buddy it totally depends on the laptop you are using. My DV6245ca has Intel Core 2 Duo processors, but I know some DV6245's have AMD procesors. Which ones do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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