Mac software issue (MW2)

niallroe

niallroe

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Hey everyone ive jsut purchased an mac book pro for £3000 with accessories (+cinema display/mighty mouse). I am tryong to run modern warfare but when i insert it into the drive the bouncy thing (dont know the name sorry) doesnt do anything so i assume it isnt reading it.

I have tried to change the screen resoultion and rebooted the machine twice now. My mate at southbank uni tells me that this was due to a heating issue so i cooled it down for a few hours and tried again but it still didnt work.

Please help becuase I really want to get this working and joiin my friends online. Thanks.
 
Modern Warfare 2 for Mac? Didn't know you could get that.

Are you sure you haven't purchased it for PC? Sorry if it's a horribly, obvious question!

Are you sure it's not Modern Warfare (i.e. Call of Duty 4)?

:)
 
Is the disk specifically for the Mac? I don't see MW2 for Mac yet.

I think you will need to install Bootcamp - i.e. Windows on your Mac to run MW2.
 
My mates doing a degree in computer science at Southbank Uni; one of the best places to study in the UK. He has built many computers over the years; I asked him to reccomend a nice gaming machine that i could use on the go and I went full-out on this mac book pro.

Ill have another talk with him tonight but I dont think he would lie to me. :rolleyes:
 
I don't think he meant he was lying, just that his advice was a bit rubbish.

Can't imagine why he'd suggest a Macbook Pro as a gaming machine either. Or believe overheating on a brand new Macbook would be the reason a game wouldn't run.

PS You may want to answer the questions you've been asked above...if you want help I mean. You could have just spoken to your mate and not posted otherwise!
 
More power to your mate - but it sounds like he is doing theoretical Comp Sci - not practical IT.

Any one that does anything that mentions 'Computers' is not instantly an expert on all aspects alas. However, sorry if I came off as attacking your mate. He meant well - but his answer was a complete non answer.
 
niallroe said:
My mates doing a degree in computer science at Southbank Uni; one of the best places to study in the UK. He has built many computers over the years; I asked him to reccomend a nice gaming machine that i could use on the go and I went full-out on this mac book pro.

Ill have another talk with him tonight but I dont think he would lie to me. :rolleyes:
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So you wanted a nice portable GAMING machine and your friend recommended a Mac? Sure, Steam are starting to support Apple products more but they are still fairly far behind Windows machines when it comes to gaming. For the £3,000 that you said you've spent you would got a much more capable Windows laptop, Hell, even the Alienware laptops are affordable on that budget and would far outperform a MacBook when it comes to games, not to mention there's not that many proper Steam games that are supported natively in OS X. It seems like a bit of a strange recommendation from your friend.
 
Why would you need to adjust the screen resolution? It's set out of the box.

Even after a reformat, the resolution is already fine as the graphics drivers are loaded by the OS X install DVD.

You can run Windows on a Mac using Boot Camp, but you can't install PC games on the Mac natively, from discs. The best you can do at the moment is install Steam for the Mac, and even then the supported list of apps is not the same as the PC counterpart.
 
EVH said:
Why would you need to adjust the screen resolution? It's set out of the box.

Even after a reformat, the resolution is already fine as the graphics drivers are loaded by the OS X install DVD.

You can run Windows on a Mac using Boot Camp, but you can't install PC games on the Mac natively, from discs. The best you can do at the moment is install Steam for the Mac, and even then the supported list of apps is not the same as the PC counterpart.
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Indeed, as I was saying, for a friend who is apparently so clued up on computers this is a very bizarre recommendation for what is meant to be, in the OP's own words primarily a portable gaming machine.
 
The OP must be pretty well off to pay £3000 for a computer now a day and then the first programme installed is a game!

You can get a Mac Pro for that kind of money.
 
rpn said:
The OP must be pretty well off to pay £3000 for a computer now a day and then the first programme installed is a game!

You can get a Mac Pro for that kind of money.
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Yeah he bought the Cinema Display to go with it. Absolutely no idea why, sounds like a troll tbh.
 
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I don't know why I would waste my time 'trolling'; I have ordered from overclockers many times in the past and assumed that the community supporting it in these forums would be mature enough to help me out with my technical issues. Just because you can't give me an answer you give up and insult me.

There are other reasons I chose my laptop; I enjoy the quality of mac products (i have an ipod and love it) and use my laptop to watch media, all I wanted was to run a game and play it with my friends. I wanted to purchase a system that I wouldn't need to worry about for many years in the future so I blew out on a high quality system.
 
Assuming for one minute you are not trolling (Which I think you are, personally), the mac even in bootcamp will struggle to run MW2 at any sort of decent settings and/or resolution.

Either you are trolling or your friend is taking the ****, at great expense to your self.
 
Why would anyone spend £3000 on a system without researching what it was capable of first?

If it isn't trolling, then some new advice would be to stop listening to your mate.
 
I already knew that the system would be capable for my needs; I like to think if you spend a large amount of money on a system then it should be able to perform something as simple as running a popular game.

My mate is at university and is currently in a computer science course. I trust him when it comes to IT reccomendations because he builds computers in his spare time and studied a subject all about it.

I think you guys are assuming I just brought this machine to play a single piece of software. All im saying is it would be really nice to run this game on my system and how would I do it. Instead you are all acting like a bunch of trolls and randomly insulting my mate.
 
niallroe said:
I already knew that the system would be capable for my needs; I like to think if you spend a large amount of money on a system then it should be able to perform something as simple as running a popular game.

My mate is at university and is currently in a computer science course. I trust him when it comes to IT reccomendations because he builds computers in his spare time and studied a subject all about it.

I think you guys are assuming I just brought this machine to play a single piece of software. All im saying is it would be really nice to run this game on my system and how would I do it. Instead you are all acting like a bunch of trolls and randomly insulting my mate.
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Computer science isn't about building computers at all. It's about how the code works, etc. I know more than my computer science mate about hardware.

MW2 is a PC only game, and given that you have bought a cinema display that is 2560x1400 the GPU in even the top even MacBook Pro will not play that at any decent settings what so ever. Period. Even my 4870 which is more than twice as fast as the GT330 in the MBPs only get's around 60FPS at 1920x1200 let alone a higher res than that.

Secondly if you want to give it a bash, google 'bootcamp' and get yourself a copy of Windows 7 64-bit because im assuming that you've specced the 17" out to the max and have 8Gb in there and thus a 32 bit OS would be pretty pointless.

Long and short of it, do your own research, instead of listening to one source of information.
 
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I like to think if you spend a large amount of money on a system then it should be able to perform something as simple as running a popular game.
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Right. Your mate told you that did he? The more you spend the better it'll run games?

Why not answer some of the questions we've asked you in this thread and people won't doubt you so much.

Also, you don't need to mention 'your mate at uni' in every other post of yours. He clearly hasn't done you many favours so far.

I won't be trying to help you any more unless you come back with some useful info. Ridiculous.
 
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