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How well do you think SOF 2 will run on a iMac 1 Ghz g4 with NVidia Gforce 4 MX .??? As far as smoothness.........and speed...
SOF 2 ON Mac
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ChoMomma
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FYI..
I play SOF2 on my Powerbook Ti 800Mhz G4
with a Radeon 7500 Mobility 32MB DDR
512MB Pc133 Ram....
config:
800x600
32bit goodness
turn off shadows & oh ah lighting effects (makes it harder to spot target PC players anyhow)
Turn simple weapons on (easier to spot a white AK47 than a modeled one hehe..)
and commense kicking a$$ like I do : )
I play SOF2 on my Powerbook Ti 800Mhz G4
with a Radeon 7500 Mobility 32MB DDR
512MB Pc133 Ram....
config:
800x600
32bit goodness
turn off shadows & oh ah lighting effects (makes it harder to spot target PC players anyhow)
Turn simple weapons on (easier to spot a white AK47 than a modeled one hehe..)
and commense kicking a$$ like I do : )
The problem with the iMac is that it lacks an L3 cache. Due to architectural differences the 7450 and 7455 PPC chips will actually run slower than the 7400 and 7410 at the same speed (check out IMG's hardware shoot out. The Cacheless 800 G4 PPC 7450 was barely faster than a G4 500 PPC 7400) in the same system - http://www.insidemacgames.com/features/view.php?ID=208)
The L3 cache helps tremondously in leveling the playing field.
And the, you have the GeForce MX cards in the iMacs (2MX and 4MX) and that's another bottleneck.
That's not to say you wouldn't find performance bad, but just something to keep in mind when trying to computer different Mac systems to each other.
One warning though, the Singleplayer app is significanly more resource intensive than the Multiplayer app due to additional engine modifications used to 'enhance' the effects. The very first level of SP is notoriously crazy in terms of the performance issues. I've seen some high end (at the time) PC gaming machines cry uncle on that lvl.
The L3 cache helps tremondously in leveling the playing field.
And the, you have the GeForce MX cards in the iMacs (2MX and 4MX) and that's another bottleneck.
That's not to say you wouldn't find performance bad, but just something to keep in mind when trying to computer different Mac systems to each other.
One warning though, the Singleplayer app is significanly more resource intensive than the Multiplayer app due to additional engine modifications used to 'enhance' the effects. The very first level of SP is notoriously crazy in terms of the performance issues. I've seen some high end (at the time) PC gaming machines cry uncle on that lvl.
