COD 4 on iMac 8800GS smoking hot

Willis

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Well just installed Call Of Duty 4 on my iMac via vista boot camp and I must say i'm gob smacked, it runs sweet as a nut on full setting :eek:

The 8800GS seems to handle it fine. This machine is just getting better and better.

Will throw Cyrsis at it later ;) and let you know how it went.
 
Please do Willis, would be appreciated.

I am very close to moving to an imac, although I would not class myself as a hardcore gamer, I'd love to think my favourite RTS, RPG games will run nicely which would give me hope for Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 looking good at native resolution.

If the iMac can handle Crysis at 1920x1200 on med-high settings, then I would think it would be good for gaming for a good while yet.
 
Wont manage it full resolution or settings, no way but will handle most games with settings tweaked, definitely.
 
Maybe I was getting a little carried away with the Crysis res. :D

I currently use a macbook pro and find it lacking a little in games, 8600GT 256mb.

I so want to stay with apple love the kit it's awesome, but I want to game a little more and as I said RTS/RPG's and the odd MMO will be played.

I guess my only concern over the iMac is how well that graphics card is going to scale over the next 12-18 months.

I guess I could reduce the res as the card starts to get taxed more, but how does the iMac screen fair when this is done?
 
Willis said:
Well just installed Call Of Duty 4 on my iMac via vista boot camp and I must say i'm gob smacked, it runs sweet as a nut on full setting :eek:

The 8800GS seems to handle it fine. This machine is just getting better and better.

Will throw Cyrsis at it later ;) and let you know how it went.
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What resolution are you running COD4 on? Native at 1920x1200?

Thinking of trying boot camp on my iMac 24" with 8800GS tonight. Is it really that straight forward? Eg, no requirement to get the lastest Nvidia drivers etc? Just run Boot Camp and then play game?....Sound too good to be true!
 
Huddy said:
I guess I could reduce the res as the card starts to get taxed more, but how does the iMac screen fair when this is done?
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Surprisingly well, in my experience. My housemate had a 24" iMac with the 2600Pro, and for stuff like CoD4 and Half-Life 2 at lower resolutions (even 1280x800) it still looked decent.
 
mark66 said:
What resolution are you running COD4 on? Native at 1920x1200?

Thinking of trying boot camp on my iMac 24" with 8800GS tonight. Is it really that straight forward? Eg, no requirement to get the lastest Nvidia drivers etc? Just run Boot Camp and then play game?....Sound too good to be true!
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Yep as easy as that. :D and full 1920 x 1200
 
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