Anyone running on Mac?

[Nightmender]

Hey guys, I'm new here and I've been following the forums and Cliffs of Dover for some time now. I can't wait for the US release, (hopefully without most of the bugs) but I was wondering if anyone plays or [is] going to run it on a Mac using Parallels or Fusion. This is what I plan to do, and any tips or experiences would be greatly appreciated.

[Vengeanze]

New iMacs tomorrow, they might have power enough.

[GopherStibble]

By the thrice sh*tten shroud of Lazarus, why would you want to do that?!!

[DrDom]

I've got a MacBook Pro 2011 15" i7 QuadCore and AMD 6750m, 8 Gb RAM. I'm using BootCamp and Win7 to run CoD. Works okay. Custom settings around medium and 1600 x 1200 gives me average FPS of 35, over sea 50ish, over cities 25ish. It's playable.

EDIT: forgot to add, If I overclock the GPU core 780, memory 955, I get 25% boost in FPS.

[Furio]

My Mac is a Mac Pro 5,1 , quad-core with ATI Radeon HD5770. I use Bootcamp and Windows Xp. CoD performs quite well now, but I'm thinking to upgrade Os to Windows 7, because I've problems with trackIr. After last update of ATI Radeon's driver, TrackIr 5 refuses to load. Apparently it's a known issue, and I'm using my unit in TrackIr 4 mode. On average, Mac computers are tough machines, not directly comparable to Win pc, so, why not use them?
By the way, I use my Mac professionally for graphic and publishing work, and it makes sense to use it also in a secondary role for playing, taking advantage of its excellent quality 27 inches screen.

[FlushMeister]

Guys, none of you answered his question, you're just giving him your specs, comaaaan!


I wouldn't run COD in parallels or fusion, I believe you would need all the juice from the Mac, so IMO the only solution is bootcamp, I have never used parallels or fusion but it just can't be as good as a bootcamp solution?

Cheers

[Nightmender]

Thanks everyone for the replies and advice--it seems like Bootcamp is the way to go--forgot fusion and parallels only emulate windows. My personal reasoning for wanting to use a Mac is quite simple, generally Macs have more processing power then PCs, and also don't run into nearly as much problems as PCs do either. Only problem is that they don't make that many great games for Macs as they do PCs because unfortunately PCs are more dominant in the world

[akodonnell]

yeah running Parallels with this game sounds like a horrible idea

I've got that same 2011 Macbook Pro with the i7 that someone stated above, good to know it runs the game, haven't tried it yet.

[Codex]

Originally Posted by Nightmender

My personal reasoning for wanting to use a Mac is quite simple, generally Macs have more processing power then PCs, and also don't run into nearly as much problems as PCs do either.

How do you come to that conclusion?

The 27-inch iMac costs $2199.00 (AUS) and has the following specs ...

2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM

For the same money you can build a PC that has three times the graphics and memory speed which is where you need the grunt for CoD.

In terms of problems on the PC, they're almost always driver related, so if you're going to use Win 7 on a Mac using bootcamp, you're going to have the same problems.

Don't get me wrong I like Apple, but if you want to run a PC game, then get a PC.

[tintifaxl]

Originally Posted by Codex

How do you come to that conclusion?

Don't get me wrong I like Apple, but if you want to run a PC game, then get a PC.

But the intel Macs are PC's. They just have the ability to boot MacOS