Slashdot Games :. PC Games Go To Boot Camp

Gizmo · 10-April-06, 03:45 PM

1up has taken several of the more popular recent PC titles to Apple Boot Camp, and report back on how they hand the MacBook Pro hardware. From the article: "With all settings on medium, F.E.A.R. is absolutely playable. Again, none of the silky-smooth 60 fps that hardware freaks clamor for, but it looks good and plays well even with tons of characters onscreen. Annoyingly, F.E.A.R. offers a really pitiful selection of resolutions, all of which are constrained to the old-fashioned 4:3 aspect ratio -- meaning that play on the MacBook's widescreen is stretched, and kind of ugly. That's not a hardware issue so much as limited programming, and presumably anyone with a widescreen PC is in the same pickle."

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Foe · 10-April-06, 09:22 PM

Have to say the updated look for NewsBot sure is an improvement. He just looks more like a game news guy to me.

NCXCStud · 10-April-06, 10:37 PM

He's not depressing enough. He needs the really depressing sigh in his signature. That'll make my day

10-April-06, 03:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
Gizmo News Hound Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Floating among Data streams, waiting for the right moment Posts: 44,023	Slashdot Games :. PC Games Go To Boot Camp 1up has taken several of the more popular recent PC titles to Apple Boot Camp, and report back on how they hand the MacBook Pro hardware. From the article: "With all settings on medium, F.E.A.R. is absolutely playable. Again, none of the silky-smooth 60 fps that hardware freaks clamor for, but it looks good and plays well even with tons of characters onscreen. Annoyingly, F.E.A.R. offers a really pitiful selection of resolutions, all of which are constrained to the old-fashioned 4:3 aspect ratio -- meaning that play on the MacBook's widescreen is stretched, and kind of ugly. That's not a hardware issue so much as limited programming, and presumably anyone with a widescreen PC is in the same pickle." Link To Original Article

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NCXCStud Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Lexington, SC Posts: 712	He's not depressing enough. He needs the really depressing sigh in his signature. That'll make my day __________________ Currently at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary on a path, called by God, to serve his church as an ordained Lutheran minister. Pray for me, pray really hard

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10-April-06, 09:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
Foe Apex Tech God Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: East Coast, U.S.A. Posts: 2,852	Have to say the updated look for NewsBot sure is an improvement. He just looks more like a game news guy to me.