Mac Hardware for the TGE
by Ryan J. Parker · in General Discussion · 09/16/2002 (7:35 am) · 3 replies
What sort of hardware do you need to run the TGE (decently) on a Mac?
#2
~myk
09/17/2002 (8:35 am)
Im running TGE on a iMac 233, 128mb Ram, ATI Rage 128...seems to run ok, but higher is better. I have had some graphical problems, like textures not showing up, and occasionally frame rate issues, so I am guessing this is a decent as it gets with this config.~myk
#3
Same question as is asked on PC: what exactly are you trying to run? ;)
But really, it makes a big difference. In general, expect that you need AT LEAST half the Hz rate in a Mac to match a PC. I generally use 60% as my rule of thumb, but it depends upon the content, the code, optimizations, screen res, etc, etc, etc.
I've run it on lowly G3 233 macs, and I've run it on laptops, and I've run it on 866 G4 towers. With all the various ATI cards and Ge2MX. VRAM size is the big issue, just like the PC, so many of the iMacs are really left behind.
A 450Mhz mac with a 32MB AGP video card should do pretty well.
As usual, the faster the better... ;)
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09/18/2002 (7:55 pm)
Hey Ryan -Same question as is asked on PC: what exactly are you trying to run? ;)
But really, it makes a big difference. In general, expect that you need AT LEAST half the Hz rate in a Mac to match a PC. I generally use 60% as my rule of thumb, but it depends upon the content, the code, optimizations, screen res, etc, etc, etc.
I've run it on lowly G3 233 macs, and I've run it on laptops, and I've run it on 866 G4 towers. With all the various ATI cards and Ge2MX. VRAM size is the big issue, just like the PC, so many of the iMacs are really left behind.
A 450Mhz mac with a 32MB AGP video card should do pretty well.
As usual, the faster the better... ;)
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