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    World of Warcraft on Intel-Mac?

    WoW works great on the Intel based Macs. Performance increases are also in the pipeline.
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    OSX Quake III Plasma gun crash

    The universal binary version of Quake 3 is not an official release by the developers. It was created by someone else based off the released Quake 3 source code. Since it's not an official version, it lacks punk buster support. The Plasma crashing is related to the altivec version of Quake 3...
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    World of Warcraft

    As I said already, going from 512 MB to 1 GB makes a huge difference for WoW. With 512 MB, virtual memory swapping will occur almost constantly. With 1 GB, it's significantly reduced since more game data can be kept in the physical RAM rather than being swapped out to virtual memory on the HD...
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    World of Warcraft

    1 GB of RAM in a Mac Mini makes a huge difference for WoW. It really likes 1 GB. 1.5 GB is the sweet spot though.
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    10.4.3 and Sims2

    Where did you read that and what exactly breaks?
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    Video Card Comparison

    The 9600 Pro is a more powerful card than the GF4Ti, but I think it's your CPU that's holding things back. Your games are probably CPU limited.
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    WoW running real slow.

    With WoW, the RAM is probably the most common initial bottleneck for any system that meets the minimum requirement. Although Blizzard recommends 512 MB, a system with that much RAM will be using the hard drive a lot more than a system with say 768 or 1 GB of RAM due to virtual memory. I think...
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    Problems with sims 2!!!\

    Both your CPU and video card are below minimum system requirements. The missing graphics are due to the video card. I can't remember if it's due to a bug in the drivers, due to the card lacking certain necessary functionality, or both. It might be both.
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    WoW Questions

    Copying the installed folder to your computer should work just fine. After every major patch I typically create a drag and drop copy of the game on a DVD. However, the installed game is getting closer to a full single layer DVD so I may have to start using a dual layer DVD.
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    Really need help with Law and order dead on the money

    Did you get the patch from Aspyr's site? They're the Mac publishers of the game. What Mac are you using? What OS? What video card? How much RAM? These are the bits of information that are usually helpful to know when troubleshooting, so in the feature keep that in mind when posting for...
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    Sims 2 on Mac Mini

    I would consider The Sims 2 one of "the latest" games. It uses the latest OpenGL features, including ones that Apple doesn't have hardware acceleration for yet (GLSL shader programs). Aspyr considers it's graphic engine more advanced than Doom 3 in terms of the complexity and technology used.
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    No sound on doom 3

    There's a known issue with certain (if not all) 3rd party audio devices and Doom 3. Aspyr may have the issue resolved in the next patch, which I hear is currently in approvals (waiting on id software).
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    halo on dual g5

    Maybe I missed it, but have you tried the latest version, 1.05? When Halo was first released High and Extreme Lens Flares caused performance hits due to the method used by the developers. Coupled with FSAA it made a huge performance hit. With Mac OS X 10.3.5, the necessary feature to support...
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    'Strange' thoughts about Halo

    Some of the numbers were based on numbers found via bittorrent trackers.
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    when will QUAKE be made for OSX

    Actually, he's from Germany. I helped it out a bit with some input code since he didn't have a mouse with a scrollwheel at the time. I think Omni did the Rhapsody ports of the id games. I think Brad Oliver ported Heretic to Classic (that port helped him get into Westlake Interactive). I...
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    New ATI Sept 2004 Update

    New ATI updates. ATI Displays 4.4 Allows for 3D Override support for ALL Radeon cards (including OEM) http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/mac/macosx-ATI-displays-4-4.html ROM update to allow for support of some features in ATI Displays, like VersaVision on Radeon 8500 and 9000 retail...
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    when will QUAKE be made for OSX

    I've heard that Quake 3 Gold shipped with an OS X version. It's the boxed version that contains Quake 3 Arena and Team Arena. I don't have a copy of that version of the game so I can't say whether or not that's true. edit: I just looked at id's site and the system reqs seem to say that an...
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    Radeon Rage

    Where did you get the card? Is it new or used? Is it a genuine ATI retail Mac card or a flashed PC video card? If it's a flashed card, forget about asking ATI for help as flashed PC video cards are unsupported. Try making a new user and see if the same crashes happen. Maybe there's some...
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    Doom3 Goes Gold!

    Doom III is OpenGL only. There's no Direct3D renderer in the Mac or PC version. When requirements say a DirectX *.* compatible card, they're talking about hardware features, related to Direct3D APIs. Those same hardware features can be made available to OpenGL. So a DirectX 9.0b compatible...
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    FSAA in UT2K4

    http://www.insidemacgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=169782#169782
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