is it the game lag?? and the sound seem stuck?

@hapa, if you're asking me, i have no idea as i myself have not tried playing L4D on the MB.

just thought of asking here before i decided to purchase windows xp and the L4D cd.

ic.. i tot u are hving prob... i think mb should handle it no prob... maybe not high setting..

currently playing Dead Space at native resolution (1440x900). going smooth damn haha this is enjoyable!

also tried Unreal Tournament 3 at native reso. the settings cant really remember but i think full for both texture detail and world detail. very smooth except for that one map got 'portals' where u can go from space, jungle, snowy place map. 4got the name

fan running really fast tho

why not you playing Left 4 dead Mac version?

i normally play 1 game at a time now still wanna play dead space hehe... after that mebe will try left 4 dead

er.. there's no left 4 dead mac version.

most new games can be played on the new MB and MBP so no worries lah

yes, there is no official left 4 dead mac version, but there is a cider port version.









The first 3 images taken from other forum, and the last image is the preview from my mekbuk pro.

eh? kalosneri, explain cider port please?

cider is similar to crossover.they are both meant to play Windows games on Mac.

Crossover is limited to less games than cider i think. I have crossover but not used at all (No games )

FYI;Crossover method for L4D is only through Steam at the moment, Not sure about cider but kalosneri seem to be able run it

kalosneri, how much did u pay for cider?

ah that's even better. i have not heard of this cider and crossover before so thanks for the heads up!

now all i need to do is to purchase crossover and the L4D cd.

definitely a relief knowing now i do not have to install windows os on my mb just for L4D.

This post has been edited by rawn: Feb 13 2009, 01:11 PM

As i mentioned above,

As far as L4D is concerned, Crossover uses Steam account so you will need to purchase via Steam and not a physical disc.
On the bright side, most games there are cheap. Especially the bundles (TF2 FTW)
http://store.steampowered.com/

Check out the other games supported by crossover
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/



This post has been edited by pmsoo: Feb 13 2009, 02:37 PM

@pmsoo, noted. sorry for the oversight.

sorry for the late reply, previously i installed the L4D game but don't have time to test it. I downloaded the game from internet, not purchased it. if you want to know which website to download, pm me, but to download the file u need to have rapidshare premium.

L4D runs smoothly in my 2.8GHz MBP.

FOR my case, I need an active cooling pad whenever I game. Otherwise, my MBP will hit black screen of death.

aiks... i cannot try games yet.. i am still stucking in finding a way to make 2nd partition for gaming in bootcamp XP..

Anyone care to help me here?! i had done wif my strength over here.

thanx first.

wow how come until black screen???

im also considering an active cooling pad. probably the one from zalman. any recommedations? or shud i juz buy the cheap china ones?

don buy the zalman.. not suitable for mbp....
i'm using zalman 1000, mbp gpu is on the upper left but unfortunately the zalman cooling pad only able to hit the mbp front part, so no use and not worth it. U will easily get black screen of death!!
the only good side of zalman is, it run quietly.. u not even noe it is running!!

try consider other cooling pad, or u can try what i do now, jz buy a cheap usb stand fan tat cost about 20 bucks and use it when gaming by pointing the fan to left part of mbp near the upper left keyboard. Do bear in mind the stand fan is strong but it is very loud. So, i only use it when i'm gaming. Good side, u wont feel the keyboard is hot anymore

If u guys wanna try black screen of death, jz try boot up windows and quickly launch any gpu intensive game such as farcry 2 , crysis... then u will noe
the temp for gpu goes up too fast, and the fan speed is unable to catch up so u will get what u wan.. lol...

what i do is, booting up windows and leave in about 15 min b4 start gaming...

This post has been edited by hapa: Feb 14 2009, 12:30 PM

oh true oso...didnt think of fan position . cooling pads are out then...hahaha

wow haha never encountered that b4 but then i dun play crysis n farcry 2 yet. how smooth can it run?