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Graphic Card Video help for MAC

je_saist

By je_saist,
Posted on: 2011-09-27 18:48 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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Originally Posted by Tex View Post
You might have better luck asking in the Mac Users forums here:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=582
Wouldn't matter. Manga or I would see it regardless of where he posted the question.

I'm going to assume that the original poster is actually asking a serious question and isn't just trying to be funny with this post.

To the Original Poster: no, it will not.

Currently most of the shipping Apple Imac Systems, as well as all existing Apple laptops, are not-capable of running Ultra Mode graphics.

The starting point for all Ultra-Mode options in Low is around the Desktop AMD RadeonHD 4850 / Nvidia Geforce GTS 250.

The starting point for all Ultra-Mode options in High is around the Desktop RadeonHD 5770 / Nvidia GTX 460

Currently shipping Imac's say they come with RadeonHD 67xx or 69xx cards. What is not made clear on Apple's site is that those Imac's use the MOBILE edition of the chipsets.

These mobile chips are below the starting point for Ultra-Mode High performance, but they are in range of running some Ultra-Mode options:

Desktop Theoretical Numbers: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=88&pgno=3
Mobile Theoretical Numbers: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=88&pgno=3

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Now, I'm going to assume that because you linked to a USB card thinking it was a real graphics card.

It is not.

Neither Nvidia nor AMD make their graphics cards available in USB formats.

The don't use USB because USB is too freaking slow to run high performance graphics.

Now, if you want to be cute about, yes, you can actually hook a High-Powered PCI-Express graphics card up to a laptop with an ExpressCard slot: http://www.techradar.com/news/comput...adaptor-915616

This option probably isn't available to you since, as far as I am aware, no shipping Apple laptop has an ExpressCard slot.

In short: if you have an Apple Laptop, an Apple Imac, or an Apple Mac Mini, you are stuck with whatever graphics card it shipped with. There is no upgrade path available for you.