Games on intel imac

having just received my new intel iMac, it would appear there is no Nanosaur 2 - which is very disappointing for my 4 year old son! Could somebody tell me if this is either;
hiding somewhere on the hard drive and I'm just too stupid to find it (if so, where is it?)
or, unavailable for the intel macs (if so, will it be some time soon)

As I understand it. Nanosuar2 won't work on the Intel Macs, yet. They are working on it. They realease is not yet avalible... Sorry.. Hope this helps you out..

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Non native games on intel iMac 17"?

Hi,
I'm awaiting delivery of a 17" intel iMac with 1gb of ram. I have a number of games that i believe don't have patdhes to run on the intel machines and wondered if anyone knows how they run> Here's the list:
CALL OF DUTY
HALO
FORD RACING 2
MEDAL OF HONOUR
THE INCREDIBLES
ALIENS VERSUS PREDATOR 2
RAINBOW 6
I also have unreal o4, doom3 and quake 4 but i believe these have patches. Also, how bad is the hit for Photoshop under Rossetta?
Cheers.

Hi,
here is a link with info on the performance of games running under Rosetta:
http://guides.macrumors.com/UniversalBinaryGames
As for Photoshop. Haven't got first hand experience, but Photoshop Elements is slow but useable with 1GB
Sascha
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5) 17" Core Duo, 1GB Ram

PPC games on intel imac...

Just a quick question. im looking at buying Halo for mac but im worried it may not work well because it would have been designed for PPC chips & i have an intel mac.
i know rosetta runs while PPC apps are being used so im thinking this will slow the game/computer down too much.
any thoughts?
thanks

Hi DJstylus,
I'm not a Halo player, but I gather from http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/26/Mac-Halo-now-with-Universal-Binary/ that Halo is now available as "Universal Binary", so no need for Rosetta, and , presumably, no problem in running it on an Intel iMac.
(Edit - I've just confirmed this at http://www.destineerstudios.com/support/halo.html It may be necessary to purchase the orginal version and then apply the update though. It wasn't altogether clear from the instructions)
Cheers
Rod

Golf games on Intel iMac

My dad will be getting an iMac soon, and I really want to get him a golf game for it - he can't actually play golf any more, so I'm hoping it will be the next best thing!
I note that Tiger Woods 2005 seems to be the latest but is not universal (understandably). Has anyone tried it, or even the 2003 version, on an Intel machine? Any ideas how (if at all) it runs?
TIA, Matthew

A couple of people have run Tiger Woods 2005 on an Intel iMac(one, two.) To see the relevant material in the first link, click on Read More in the review by RF.
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PC games on Intel iMac?

with boot camp will that allow me to install and play my PC games on a new Intel iMac?
looking at trading in our home Dell for a new iMac but want to be able to play games
thanks

Once you setup Bootcamp it's like you're on a PC desktop/notebook. I am able to play Half-Life 2 on my MacBook Pro on high quality without a problem. Just make sure the iMac you get can handle the games, and RAM is important.

Rise of Nations game on Intel iMac not working ?

I have a 20" iMac Intel 2ghz Ram and the upgraded graphics memory (256mb) and I tried installing Rise of Nations but it doenst work, It installs okay and even goes through the intro movie but then it just hangs on the main title screen. Has anyone with an intel Mac got it working ?
It would be a shame that I couldnt get it to work when its not that old a game.

Has nobody got Rise of Nations ? surely someone has at least tried installing it ? I'm just hoping that its a rosetta thing and maybe a fix comes out for it to work ?

Pc games on intel imac 1.83 ghz

Oh please help I'm so confused. We're all mac, have been for twenty years, but my son wants to play some pc games and I'm giving in. I know this is supposed to be possible. This is what I think I know so far. I can buy parallels. I then have to buy windows. I may need more memory? He has 1 GB but of course has a ton of mac games on there already. What I'm afraid of is the processing speed, will it be fast enough? and the graphics, is it powerful enough? I know absolutely nothing about PCs and hope to not have to buy one. Please tell me in really simple terms exactly what to do and if it will work well. I did start to look into refurbished (hoping for cheap) PCs but got overwhelmed immediately. I've been blissfully unaware of just how easy being a mac owner is. His birthday is coming up soon, any advice you can give me, soon, will be greatly appreciated!

Ah. To run the games on his it looks like about 300 for windows plus 150. for memory. Boot Camp is free, so under 500.
To buy the refurbished iMac 2.0 is 850.
But of course I could take his year-old one and be pretty happy for a long time (I don't do much more than email, internet, and photos).
I think it's going to be more of a parenting kind of question. How much do we want to encourage the gaming? He already does a lot, there are plenty of mac games out there. The difference, the reason I'm trying to make it work, is that there are pc games that can be modified and that's something he's really into. I kind of like the idea of him being able to mod and create. He spent some time at a computer camp this summer at MIT doing just modding. Seems a shame he can't keep it up.
Then, speaking of the camp, is the question of 3D programs. He loved the 3D classes. I've looked into 3D programs for mac and the one to go with seems to be Lightwave. Their version for the newer intel macs is still in beta, hopefully it will be out for Christmas. I've been told he may need more processing speed for that, too.
So, now I think I've hit you with the whole deal. What do you think?

LAN Games on Intel iMac

So I installed Windows XP on my computer yesterday to play Halo: Combat Evolved over lan with my Macbook. I set up an ad-hoc network using wireless and both computers are assigned an IP address. I am also able to ping each computer. The problem is, when I start a multiplayer game on my Macbook, it creates the session even though I am the only one on it. On the iMac, it says "could not connect to game" when it is the computer creating the session. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

I don't know re: those games specifically, but if/after you've tested then could you add them to the table at http://guides.macrumors.com/UniversalBinaryGames so other people know? Cheers

Any way to make games run full screen/higher res on intel iMac?

Hi,
I just got i 17" intel imac and am pleased with it exept that all the games run with a black band down either side of the screen and only seem to play at 1024 x 768. Is there any way of isorting this out? Doom 3 for example keeps returning to 800 x 600 if i change the settings?
Thanks.

take a look at this thread, you can find some useful info about running old and some new games on Booklet there.

An Intel iMac AND a MacBook Pro for Logic Pro?

I am torturing myself over this issue lately so any input you guys could offer would be welcome!
This is the situation:
After 3 months of serious debating whether to purchase a 20" Intel iMac or a MacBook Pro for Logic Pro, I went ahead about 3 weeks ago and got the iMac. My reasoning behind this was that even though I found the portability of the MBP very desirable, the iMac simply represented a better value with the big screen and bigger hard drive. Since getting it, I must say I love this machine and I have not had one single problem with it. Logic 7.2 runs like a dream on it. By the way, aside from maintaing my iTunes Library, occasional iLife stuff and web surfing with Safari, this iMac is for music production only.
But here's the problem:
Still, I can't seem to shake the desire for OCCASSIONAL portability. Keep in mind, I am only a "serious" music hobbyist; I create instrumental hip-hop, trip-hop, electronica style of music mainly with software instruments, loops and breakbeats. So needless to say, I don't tour or do a lot of travelling. But the prospect of being able to compose tracks or make beats in Logic anywhere is DESIRABLE to say the least. I could compose while sitting on the couch watching a game or laying in bed - even though I have no idea of how often I'd actually do that, just having the ability to do it is VERY APPEALING to me. Throw in the fact that the iMac currently shares deskspace with a PC that my wife uses - meaning that I often have to stop what I'm doing to let her use the space. With a laptop, I could move and still continue my flow. Lastly, I unfortunately have bad knees and a bad back so after a couple of hours (or 3 or 4) of sitting at the desk working on Logic, I am seriously hurting. Not comfortable at all. At least owning a MacBook would give me the option to move around to some place more comfortable if I desire.
So...
Even though I recently bought a wonderful iMac that works great, I'm seriously considering getting a 1.83 MBP with at least 1GB of RAM and the 100GB/7200 RPM drive to accompany it just for the portability factor. Sure, I could get a used G4 PowerBook or iBook, but all I own is the Universal Binary of Logic Pro; I would have a hard time accepting the decrease in speed I've gotten use to on the Core Duo. Besides, I inherently have a problem buying something (even used) that I know is old and out of date when the latest and greatest is available.
So here is the $25,000 question: Am I nuts for even considering this? Am I placing too much of a premium on the portability as I would use it?
This could easily be justified if I was a working musician on the road, but that ain't me. And you can believe that I'm definately not rich and thus don't have money lying around.
But I have obsessed over this so much lately, I feel that I almost have to get it just to put my mind at ease! I even briefly considered putting the iMac on eBay and just buying a MBP to replace it, but I love the screen real estate I get with the 20" iMac and I question if I'll be truly satisfied with a 15.4" screen FULL TIME. 17" might be better, but I doubt if I can wait until June for them to arrive. In addition, everything would connected via my wireless LAN and .Mac so file sharing should not be an issue.
Help!!!
What would you do? Sell the iMac or just get a MBP as cheap as I can?
Opinions, Please!
20" iMac Core Duo, 2GHz, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB HD, 128MB VRAM Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I love the portability my powerbook gives me. You can use a PB in your setup. You can run an external monitor for either PB or MBP. You can node. Universal Binary menas it is an application which has the components written for both PPC and Intel chips-so you don't need to do conversion. Nodes won't require you buy a nother license. so the answer is down to how much the 2 upgrades and 1 crossgrades will set you back vs how much use you'll get out of them. IMO the iMac is inexpensive (I mean that in a good way-worth hooding on to). Maybe just look at a refurb PB unless you really have the extra cash.

Help transferring to new intel iMac

Hello,
I will be getting a new intel iMac in the next week or two, to replace my failing revision A iMac G5. My problem is that the old machine will not be here anymore when the new machine arrives, and I want to make the transition as smooth as possible. I will have a complete backup of the G5 on an external firewire drive, and was wondering if I can use the migration assistant to update from there? Would there be any major problems with preferences that are transferred from the G5 to the intel? What are some of the problems, or quirks I should look out for? Will my Epson Stylus Photo 960 still work? I'm sure the HP Deskjet 970 Cse is no longer an option. Will M$ Office work ok in Rosetta? I know that FCEHD will need to be updated, but that's about all I really need to worry about right now, the kids games can be replaced/updated all in due time, (slowly.)
I know it's a bunch of questions, and I appreciate any and all advice.
Thanks,
Eric.
iMacG5 20 Rev. A, 2 GB Ram, 250 GB HD, BT Mac OS X (10.4.3) 250 GB Ext. HD, 30 GB 3rd Gen. and 6 GB iPod mini

Eric,
Surprise! both the Epson and the HP 970cse are on the list as having new universal binary drivers already installed inside the Tiger OS that will arrive on your iMac Intel.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303057#hpdrivers

Intel iMacs

So this is the forum for Intel iMacs? Cool.
First, could someone explain (or link me to) more detailed pages about the Duo Core chip, Rosetta, and Universal? I've seen the APple pages, but they didn't seem to elaborate, or maybe I just couldn't find it.
And, I noticed the MacBook's iSight says "and twice the resolution" under it. Does the same go for the iMac?
Anyone order one yet? I'd love too, but just don't have the money.
Thanks,
Kyle-

You could look at the Intel Core Duo product page here:
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/coreduo/index.htm
It's effectively a successor to the Pentium M chip. Aside from having dual cores, it has better floating point math (useful in games and hard number-crunching), SSE3 extensions, and is reworked to use less power overall.
Rosetta is effectively emulation, but it's a relatively efficient kind of emulation and one that strives for transparency to the user (i.e. it doesn't have to initialize a special environment to run). This doesn't mean that things will necessarily run as well as they did on a native PowerPC chip, but it does mean that you can keep at least some of your software until you're ready to get a native version. For example, Office 2004 should run well enough.
Universal refers to universal applications (or rather, universal binaries, since that's what you actually launch). These are programs that have native code for both Intel AND PowerPC Macs - so either system will treat it as a native program and run it quickly. If it's not a universal app and you're using an Intel-based Mac, it'll have to run in Rosetta.
Regarding the iSight, I think it's functionally similar to what the iMac G5 already had.

Software compatibility with Intel iMac

I know it's rather early in the game, as it were, but does anyone know if Appleworks comes bundled with the new Intel iMacs. I don't see it listed, but could this be an oversight? Or is Apple getting away from it? I have used it for quite some time and I have many documents in Appleworks, but have no idea what I'd do with them if I got a new Intel iMac--sure, convert them, but to what? I don't look forward to having to "tweak" each doc, as I have had to do in the past when converting from one program to another . . . . Anyone know?

Not yet. Peggy, one of the Appleworks mavens here, is at macworld and is going to try to find out for us.

Gameplay problems with Intel iMac

I have an Intel iMac with 2GB RAM and the 256MB graphics card. Despite this equipment spec, in playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault, I often experience some lag/framerate problems - in the "Day of the Tiger" opening mission, the game runs so slooooooowly that I become a standing target. What's up with this?!? Is it a Rosetta issue? Seems to me that with the hardware I have, it should run flawlessly, Rosetta or no Rosetta.

Yeah, just tried lowering the game settings so far that it looks like it's being played on an old 386 PC...and the @$% thing *STILL* freezes up solid in the first 30 seconds of the initial "Day of the Tiger" mission. The lag problems in the earlier missions were annoying, but not serious enough to necessitate lowering the graphics to cartoon level, or to disrupt frame rates to the point where the game is literally unplayable. I've already submitted a 2-star review for MOHAA on the Apple Store, so hopefully my experience will inform others...
Any recommendations re a WW2 themed 1st person shooter that actually WORKS on our machines?!?
intel imac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Really BAD 3D Performance on Intel iMac

Hello all,
I have like 2 weeks with a new Intel iMac 20" (C2D 2.4Ghz / 256MB ATI Card / 1Gb RAM) had no problems so far, until today. I decided to install Vista thru Boot Camp (I know I should have installed XP, but Vista is all I got) for games, so I downloaded a few demos to check if it was any good with 3D gaming, installed GRAW2 and NFS Most Wanted, these are not cutting edge games and I tought they should run perfectly smooth as my iMac is superior than recomended specs for those games, well they didnt run well, not even playable at even low resolutions (640*400 / 800*600) the games looked all jerky and slow, really painfull performace, I tought, well, maybe the drivers didnt installed correcly, reinstalled drivers, nothing, erased and reinstalled Vista and drivers, still same problem, even tried games under OS X, HALO Universal and DOOM 3 Demo, again not cutting edge games, they run really bad even on low settings, and I mean painfully slow, so this is not only on Windows.
This is not acceptable for a computer with these specs, even my 2 year old PC (AMD Athlon 3400+ / 1Gig RAM) with Vista and integrated graphics runs DOOM3 and F.E.A.R. at playable levels on medium quality settings @ 1024*800, its not even fair.
My Mac OS version is 10.5.2 and all current updates have been installed, the problem seems to be only with 3D graphics in both Windows and OS X as it plays Quicktime 960p HD videos and all other graphic media as smooth as butter on a hot pan. Does someone else has this issue or knows what to do to solve it?... It is really frustrating.

You probably did not install the drivers for the video hardware (on the Windows side).
My Mac OS version is 10.5.2 and all current updates have been installed
That would have nothing to do with 3D performance when booted into Windows.
Here's the forum category for Boot Camp users. You should also ask your question there.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

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