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Your 23" iMac likely has a higher native resolution than your Macbook Pro, hence the issue. I would suggest running at a lower resolution and in windowed mode. Windowed mode for macs is accessed by hitting Command+enter while in game. |
Originally Posted by docbuzzard
OK, I've got a 23" iMac at home with a 500 MB video card and 4 GB of ram and my video runs like crap. I have it set for performance, but I suspect I might have the resolution too high for it to be happy. I'm wondering what resolution people generally run on their Macs. The game is simply very unstable on that iMac in addition to the performance not being particularly good. I end up with a lot more stable game on my Macbook Pro which is over a year older and has half the RAM.
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At least, I think it is. It's been a while since I'be actually played on the Mac
client. I've 'only' got a 1st gen unibody macbook and prefer to play on my PC desktop.
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I'm aware that the resolution is appreciably higher, I'm just curious if anyone knows a sweet spot resolution I can use without going all the way down the resolution of my laptop.
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Originally Posted by SaintNicster
Your 23" iMac likely has a higher native resolution than your Macbook Pro, hence the issue. I would suggest running at a lower resolution and in windowed mode. Windowed mode for macs is accessed by hitting Command+enter while in game.
At least, I think it is. It's been a while since I'be actually played on the Mac client. I've 'only' got a 1st gen unibody macbook and prefer to play on my PC desktop. |
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Just try different resolutions out? It's going to depend purely on your setup.
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Originally Posted by docbuzzard
I'm aware that the resolution is appreciably higher, I'm just curious if anyone knows a sweet spot resolution I can use without going all the way down the resolution of my laptop.
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Try setting the Mac Client to your iMac's native resolution (whatever it boots to by default) and then select "Recommended" quality setting. That should set everything to its optimal selections.|
Originally Posted by docbuzzard
I'm aware that the resolution is appreciably higher, I'm just curious if anyone knows a sweet spot resolution I can use without going all the way down the resolution of my laptop.
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If that's still not good enough performance-wise, try setting the game to 1440x900 and then playing in windowed mode (Cmd-Return or Cmd-Enter). At that size you should be able to play on the "Performance" setting.
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I just cranked it down to 1280x800 and I lost most of the issues of graphic slowness. However I still crash a lot. |
Originally Posted by CuppaManga
Try setting the Mac Client to your iMac's native resolution (whatever it boots to by default) and then select "Recommended" quality setting. That should set everything to its optimal selections.
If that's still not good enough performance-wise, try setting the game to 1440x900 and then playing in windowed mode (Cmd-Return or Cmd-Enter). At that size you should be able to play on the "Performance" setting. |
Initially I had it running on the standard resolution with recommended and it crashed all the damn time. I really don't recall the PC version being nearly this crash prone. Heck I don't think it's this crash prone just playing on my laptop.
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OK, I've got a 23" iMac at home with a 500 MB video card and 4 GB of ram and my video runs like crap. I have it set for performance, but I suspect I might have the resolution too high for it to be happy. I'm wondering what resolution people generally run on their Macs. The game is simply very unstable on that iMac in addition to the performance not being particularly good. I end up with a lot more stable game on my Macbook Pro which is over a year older and has half the RAM.
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