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Post by bassmaster on Dec 18, 2006 6:03:25 GMT -5
Hey there It's been quite awhile since I've posted, but I just have a quick question for anyone who might know a thing about video cards. Right now I'm interested in getting a new intel macbook since my old laptop has died. I'm currently living in Japan and would like a mac because of the multilingual OS support and am curious about the new opportunity to run windows as well as osx, this is a little beside the point but anyway.. the only gaming I intend on doing on my new notebook would be OiF and Xanadu Next but don't know a thing about graphic processers. It seems that Falcoms games have generally low system requirements so I thought I'd ask would the macbooks ""Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory"" be able to run these games in windows and look and play decently? I realize that the Imac can run new game software fine due to in-store demos that i've seen of macs running windows games, but the portability of the new macbook has me intrigued. This isn't a huge issue for me because I'll be buying the computer for other reasons over gaming, but am very curious about the prospect of gaming Xanadu again and also trying the Felghana patch next year. Any help at all would be great, thanks so much.
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Post by FM-77AV on Dec 18, 2006 7:04:09 GMT -5
I'm not sure what you mean about the multilingual support considering Windows has that too. Sure, if you buy a computer in Japan, the OS will be completely in Japanese, but getting an english version shouldn't be too hard. Can you change menu languages, etc in OS X? (Hehe, I have it myself but I haven't bothered to check that.)  As for that video card - I doubt it will run YsF/XN well (but it would probably work). It is about as bad as it gets, video card-wise, I'm afraid. If you need a notebook, I'd recommend something from HP or Acer. |
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Post by Adol.Christin on Dec 18, 2006 8:50:27 GMT -5
I would advise you to take at least 200 MB reserved video memory. shared memory means that the video memory is taken from your RAM memory, which slows down your laptop a lot.
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Post by bassmaster on Dec 19, 2006 10:32:11 GMT -5
thank you both for your replies.. I can't say that's not a bit disheartening because I've had my sights set on the macbook and wanted some portable xanadu. Not much of a pc gamer anyway, and I've got a computer in canada more than adequate to run these games so I think i'll still stick with my choice, I'll just have to wait on the gaming front. Oh about the multilingual, I meant that Mac osx is multilingual so I can change to english right out of the box rather than messing with installing english windows on a native machine, apparently there are some problems in doing so that I'd rather not risk. Thanks again for the quick replies.  |
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Post by FM-77AV on Dec 19, 2006 10:41:59 GMT -5
Well, as mentioned, it will probably run both games, but it won't be pretty. But then again, neither of those games look particularly good, so you probably won't notice anything.
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