Hermitage Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Time for me to bite the bullet and upgrade to a machine that will play windows games. My choice is between iMacs (Intel dual core), one with ATI Radeon X1600, the other with NVIDIA GeForce 7300. I see NVIDIA mentioned favorably in the forums and ATI not so much. Is NVIDIA the better choice for an iMac user? I would appreciate any comments by Mac users about running Windows under Boot Camp on an iMac, video driver issues (or driver isssues of any type), aspect ratio issues or any other surprises I might need to be aware of as I begin using Windows for gaming. Mostly just interested about playing CMX1 at the moment, though I plan to give TOW a look when my new system is up and running. Thanks for any pointers you would like to share. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermitage Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 Oh, yeah; and I plan on using Windows XP Home edition on the iMac, rather than Vista. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 If you use Windoze, then you do of course suffer from ATI's lousy Windoze drivers. If you run MacOS you run drivers made by the Apple team, which fixed ATI cards in the past. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Yes but an Intel Mac won't run Mac OS 9.x (will run OS X only) and therefore you can't run CMX1 games on an Intel Mac unless you go down the bootcamp / Windoze route. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R33GZ Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Im running a 17" core2duo iMac with the ATI option. Im about to install bootcamp to get the TOW demo running. Everything Ive seen in the TOW forums seems to indicate that it will run fine, though I will probably have to optimise video settings to get it running smoothly... CMAK should be a walk in park I should be up and running in a couple of days, Ill post some feedback when everything is running smoothly *touch wood* Other than that, the Imac C2D machines are great, I havent had any problems with mine... even out performs my bro's dual 2.8(?) ppc on games like COD, Quake4, Doom3 etc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffsmith Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 I have the 24 inch iMac with the 256 Nvida graphics card running XP Via Bootcamp CMAK TOW demo Distant Guns could not be happier 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermitage Posted May 11, 2007 Author Share Posted May 11, 2007 Thanks for the feedback; sounds like good news. Now to shake the money out of my savings account; maybe I should have a six-pack first . . . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R33GZ Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Just got XP on my iMac C2D machine in the weekend.... works perfectly! is now running CMAK without any glitches (although it would be nice if it supported a higher res.) TOW is also running sweet at full video settings - this amazes me, as Ive read loads of posts about people experiencing very low FPS on PC's. The only thing you need to check before installing bootcamp is that you have downloaded/confirmed the latest frimware is installed... then just follow the prompts and wait 1hr for windoze to install itself. Hermitage, if you buy a new mac you will also have 2 button functionality on the mighty mouse - 1 button, but it recognises what side of the mouse you are clicking. Buy yourself one of those new dual quad C2D suckers :cool: ... youll be honking along without a care in the world 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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