Mac (cider wrapper i believe) runs like a dog, barely able to play on low settings, looks poor, jerky frame rate and no ability to connect online to download content. PC version under boot camp runs on my MBP all settings on high, no problems, I hold Dragon Age Origins as an example of how NOT to release a MAC verison, im not sure about bioshock, but most other publishers (Valve excluded) usually just use some kind of wrapper, cider/wine or something 'in house' to run the PC version on MAC os, i for one will buy a valve or blizzard game without thought for the MAC os, but any other game, ill research and avoid if its running under some form of emulation wrapper, hopefully publishers will learn from blizzard and valve that MAC owners are no longer second rate when it comes to gaming, and our share of the market is going to grow in the years to come. Maybe having 4Gb of RAM is OS X helps reducing loading times, in comparison with 32-bit Vista where RAM usage is limited to 3GB.Īnyone here who played Wow in both OS's ?īlizzard do a really good job on writting ground up for the MAC os. If it will only give me 3 frames per second more than in OS X, then it wouldn't be worth the bother. Since WoW's system requirements aren't steep at all when compared to the newest games, I was wondering whether playing in Windows would give me a better experience.

Animation didn't suffer, everything was swift and smooth. I have to say that I could crank the detail to nearly maximum settings, playing at the native resolution of 1920x1200. I have OS X.5.8 and have played the WoW trial in OS X. However, there's still that performace issue.

I'm even considering removing the Vista partition entirely. But I rarely use Vista and the thing is, having to reboot every time I would like to play Wow (which I plan to play a lot) is far from ideal. Since I have a bootcamp partition with Vista, it would be obvious to play Wow in Windows. However, we all know that gaming performance is OS X is generally much worse than in Windows. I've finally decided to get into World of Warcraft. I have a 24' iMac (2.8 Ghz, 4Gb of RAM, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro with 256Mb).

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