The GMA 950 isn't officially supported, but a few people have had success using it anyway.
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Thank you for the answer, Cuppa, I'm downloading the client right now. Although I think even if it works, I'll play on Win XP anyway, because I'm addicted to Mids and I like Herostats too.
BTW great Mac guides! (+rep for ya)
So, yeah, didn't work out very well... Terrible frame rate if I use the settings I use on Win XP, and still worse than on Win if I use minimum gfx settings. I'm using OS 10.5.8.
And to top it off, some of my toons are missing their boots (my DB/Elec is missing the arms too lol), plus there are a lot of cars on the streets that are basically only wheels running. Lots of buildings were 'weird', like blue wireframes (dunno if that's the best word, English's not my native language). I didn't even try to play a villain after having so many problems on an old and simple zone like Steel Canyon.
Edit: tried my stalker, framerate was a slideshow on Cap au Diablo (min gfx settings). On Windows I never lagged on GVille even on my custom settings (which are quite high). My Arachnos soldier is just a floating cape, and my Widow a floating head. The Stalker was 'complete' tho.
Oh, the game takes forever and a day to load to the login screen too.
That's kind of why it's not really supported. You're also using an older graphics driver in 10.5.8 (the 10.6 one is newer) that's making the problems worse.
You might be able to get CoH for Mac mildly playable by messing with the settings a bit. I think a couple of people have done so already.
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Yeah I heard that about 10.6.. My friend bought the family pck (5 licenses I think) and had one to spare, he tried to install here with me last week and in the end i got a 'error in installation' with no further explanation, idk why, always installed Mac OS since 10.0 with no problems. Well since 9.0 |
Originally Posted by CuppaManga
That's kind of why it's not really supported. You're also using an older graphics driver in 10.5.8 (the 10.6 one is newer) that's making the problems worse.
You might be able to get CoH for Mac mildly playable by messing with the settings a bit. I think a couple of people have done so already. |
But anyhow Cuppa, I doubt it'll get to the point it is on Windows. I just finished a Synapse TF, almost max graphics except the few options that are greyed out for my board, I was on an /elec scrapper, full of sonic shields, rings and kin buffs, 8 ppl on the team and it ran very smoothly. I guess I'll have to stay in Win XP to play Coh even when Mids comes to Mac
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Try an Archive and Install (and import user data) instead of a regular install. That usually fixes those kind of errors.|
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Yeah I heard that about 10.6.. My friend bought the family pck (5 licenses I think) and had one to spare, he tried to install here with me last week and in the end i got a 'error in installation' with no further explanation, idk why, always installed Mac OS since 10.0 with no problems. Well since 9.0
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Also before you install, run Disk Utility (from the Utilities menu) and check for errors.
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I ran DU 5 times because I tried to install it 5/6 times in one night, my friend was eager for me to upgrade the system. I didn't see the option to archive and install... Will check later when he's brings the DVD. Thanks again Cuppa, you rock!
Just to add another anecdote, I picked up a used 1.83GHz Core Duo Mini the other day for my son and tested COH on it. After upgrading the RAM to 2GB I loaded a fresh install of OS 10.6.4 and the Mac COH client.
With the graphics on minimal settings it was surprisingly smooth and quick, with no odd artifacts. I didn't take note of the exact frame rates, but it was enjoyably playable if somewhat drab. Load times were decent as well.
I was honestly astonished by how peppy the GMA950 chipset was on the minimum setting.
Sooo I played for 2 years running CoX on my 1.66 core duo mac mini with 2 GB of ram, on windows XP via bootcamp. My video card is the old Intel GMA950, but the game always ran very well, on higher-than performance gfx, I was always the first or second to load the mission, etc.
I just returned but I haven't tested the Mac Client on the Intel GMA 950 card on Mac OS X, the client was released just before I left but I didn't bother with it because I was already barely playing the game and the official page says that this card is not supported by my gfx card, even though it still runs CoX pretty well (no lag on Gville, Rikti raids, etc).
So anyone had success running it on the Intel GMA 950 card?
Thanks!