Think of it as playing an old DOS/Windows 95 game on a Windows XP computer. Also consider that you're playing an old game on a newer computer (despite the processor difference).
Apple announced they were switching to Intel processors last year during WWDC. Umm.this has been in the news for about a year now (even mainstream news). I don't want to have to boot Windows just to get decent performance!Įdit: Is it possible/probably War3 won't run at full speed if it isn't compiled as a universal binary? I just checked via the Activity Monitor and it says Frozen Throne is a PowerPC (as opposed to Intel) binary. Hopefully I am just a confused new Mac user that who hasn't tweaked a driver just right or something. Not to mention everyone swearing WoW and other games work at full settings. I'm not saying these settings can't be tweaked downward but I would have thought the MacBook Pro would have *easily* handled Warcraft III due to the next generation of video card and (duo core) CPU.
1280x1024x16, model detail high, animation low, texture quality high, particles high, lights medium, shadows off, occlussion on, spell detail high. My video settings are cloned from the PC. In other words, shouldn't the MacBook Pro kick ass all over something nearly two years older? My previous desktop is Windows XP on an AMD 2700+ w/ 1 gig ram and ATI 9800 Pro.
If you have other methods of playing DotA (Warcraft 3) on Mac other than what I mentioned above, please do share them.Hi, I recently purchased a Macbook Pro (2.0ghz, 2gig ram, 7200 rpm hd) and just finished playing a handful of sluggish 3v3 Warcraft III (Frozen Throne) games. I have a few general questions about running Warcraft 3 in a VirtualBox VM Windows XP on a MacBook Pro:ġ) Will the game lag, the video rendering, etc.?Ģ) Most importantly, will it damage my Mac? Now, I am wondering, if I install Warcraft into this virtual machine, and play the game ~5 hours a day, will it crash my Mac? I use VirtualBox, and already have a Windows XP install, running, that works perfectly fine. Possiblility 3: Finally, using a virtual machine. I do not want to go through all these troublesome things, thus I do not prefer this method. Well, it sounds good for me, but I've never doen it before and I'm afraid I'll crash or need to reformat my Mac when partitioning, and Apple also recommends keeping a backup for your Mac when using Boot Camp. Possibility 2: Using Boot Camp and install Windows. Thus, I come across some forums suggesting using a VM or using Boot Camp to install Windows and play. However, I already own the PC version, and I dont want to waste another $60++ bucks to buy the Mac version (it's an old game). Possibility 1: Buy Warcraft 3 for Mac (it does exist). I have Google and done some research on how to play DotA on the Mac. I want to play a PC game called WarCraft 3 (with the DotA mod).
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