[A.Cole]

So, as some know, I am new to Mac and just bought my first macbook pro recently. As I said in a previous topic, I am not hardcore enough to have lots and lots of games anymore, and I am avoiding dual booting if at all possible. I noticed the following games on various websites, and wanted to make sure they would be compatible with my OSX version and my specs. Also, if I upgrade to Snow Leopard, would that stop compatibility with any. Here are the games I am looking at:

Rome Total War (When released)
Rise of Nations Gold
Age of Empires 2
Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Gold + BtS
Sid Meier's Pirates
Age of Mythology
Age of Empires 3 + expansions
Warcraft 3 + expansion
Starcraft +expansion
Diablo 2 + expansion (okay... not strategy)

Those are really all I would want to play, so I want to make sure that I can.

[The Liberator]

I know that the Age of and the Blizzard games will run more than fine. Not too sure about the other games (except Rome Total War). They all seem old enough to be able to run properly. Your MBP (MacBook Pro) should run each game natively about as well as an equivalent PC could run it. If your PC was around the specs of your MBP, then you should be fine.

Liberator.

[Pegasus]

I have most of those games and they run just fine and dandy on my Macbook (the aluminum one before it went Pro) with the Geforce 9400M chip. In your case they should run as well or better.

A system upgrade always has the possibility of breaking something along the way that may cause some minor quirks in some games - most often it happens when something changes in Quicktime - but I've yet to encounter a point where one of my games became unplayable because of it. You can always err on the side of caution and wait a little and see if anybody else has any problems after Snow Leopard's release.

[Wumpus]

I could run almost all of those titles quite fine on my old G4 powerbook. (Even AoE 3.) All blizzard titles are older and not demanding in any way. Could run on a G3. without a hitch. (I've done them all on an old iMac. And by that I mean the first designs.) Only thing I haven't done on that list is Rome: total war. But its a I think like 2 year old pc game. Anyway, spec wise you have the latest MBP. It can eat all those games for breakfast. With your setup you can easily run things like Crysis, Far Cry 2, Unreal Tournament 3 etc at high settings with no problem. I know because I have a 2.53 Ghz, setup, otherwise the same as yours.

[Sneaky Snake]

all of them will run fine, you'll most likely be able to max them all except AoE 3

[A.Cole]

Wumpus, on July 25th 2009, 08:54 PM, said:

Only thing I haven't done on that list is Rome: total war. But its a I think like 2 year old pc game.

Actually, I think it is closer to 4 or 5...

[DaveyJJ]

A.Cole, on July 25th 2009, 06:24 PM, said:

Rome Total War (When released) -- YES
Rise of Nations Gold -- YES
Age of Empires 2
Sid Meier's Civilization 4 -- YES + BtS -- not available?
Sid Meier's Pirates -- YES
Age of Mythology -- own but never tried ... may not be Universal
Age of Empires 3 + expansions -- YES
Warcraft 3 + expansion -- own but never tried ... may not be Universal
Starcraft +expansion -- may not be Universal
Diablo 2 + expansion (okay... not strategy) -- YES

[Pegasus]

Warcraft 3 did receive a UB patch some time ago.

[A.Cole]

Wow, cool. I guess that just leaves Starcraft 2 and Diablo 2... which I might not get anyways. Not a big Blizzard fan, but they obviously make decent games.

[dojoboy]

DaveyJJ said:

Sid Meier's Civilization 4 -- YES + BtS -- not available?

BtS has already shipped for the Mac. Some folks are already playing it. My copy from Amazon is slated to ship Wednesday.

CFC Civ4 Mac thread

[DaveyJJ]

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