Mac Mini-friendly Games List...

[spd]

Anyone report on the playability of CS 1.6?

Si.

[G-Creations]

Recently I played 2 demo's with great joy on an Intel Mac Mini 2,0 Ghz

Warcraft III
Plays terrific, smooth graphics and nice gameplay,..however the game is not THAT demanding.

- Lara Croft Anniversary

This game is a challenge for the mini. I read that the GMA chip on the Intel Mini's was not able to play this one. Off course I wanted to see for myself and I installed the demo. Amazingly the game plays very well,..even will all details on a 1024x768 ppi resolution, with water reflections and all enabled. I tried to game it on 1280x1024 and it still works very well,..however slightly little lag,...but it didn't really bother me.

I'm not a huge gamer,..so my demands are not that high,..
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[or_astroman]

I dabbled in emulators for a bit awhile back. I put MacMame on my 1.5GHz PPC Mini and it does ok. It still has the 512 RAM, everything stock, and some of the games freeze or stutter sometimes.

Stupkid posted a link to MameOSX. Has anyone run both? Does MameOSX run better than MacMame? Does one or the other run better on PPC or Intel macs? I wouldn't mind getting back into some games.
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[brianisbrilliant]

this thread is super old.

i have a 1.66ghz core duo, and i play both osx games and games on windows vista ultimate.

i'm very happy playing grand theft auto: san andreas on 1280x960 with graphic detail set to low.

grand theft auto: vice city of course can run full out everything.

but the game that really has me wondering what the mac mini can do is max payne 2. i just played it on 1024x768 with all graphic details on high, minus the anti-aliasing. (i heard the mac mini can't do that, but i haven't really tried.)

max payne 2 is a pretty intense game, i thought. shadows, advanced ragdoll physics, each bullet is models, etc.

i wanna find out if F.E.A.R. will run, but i very much doubt it will. maybe battlefront too.

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on the osx side, i've played unreal tournament 2004 with satisfying graphics, and i will say, i hate lag, i can't stand it, so all the games i play, there is no noticeable lag. but UT 2004 is the most graphically intense game i've played on the OSX side.

halo didn't work for me, i tried it...
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[davis2k]

Urban Terror Works perfectly fine on my C2D 1.83ghz.

And...! It's free!!!

http://www.urbanterror.net/
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I don't recall seeing this list posted previously, but it's from the Intel website. They posted a list of games they have tested as "compatible"
with the 945 chipset (GMA950) in Windows XP. Of course, YMMV........

Age of Empires III*
America's Army*
Apprentice*, The
Axis & Allies*
Battlefield Vietnam*
Black and White* 2
Call of Duty*
Championship Manager* 5
City of Villains*
Civilization III: Conquests*
Civilization IV*, Sid Meier's*
Codename: Panzers Phase 2*
Command and Conquer: The First Decade*
Conflict: Global Terror*
Conquer Online*
CSI: Miami*
Dark Age of Camelot*
Diablo Battle Chest*
Doom 3*
Dungeon Siege II*
ER*
Everquest: Depths of Darkhollow*
Fantastic 4*
Far Cry*
F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon*
FIFA Soccer 06*
Final Fantasy XI*
FlatOut*
Freedom Force Vs. The Third Reich*
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas*
Guild Wars*
Half-Life 2*
Halo: Combat Evolved*
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*
Imperial Glory*
Juiced*
Kohan II: Kings of War*
Madagascar*
Madden NFL 2006*
Magic: The Gathering*
Myst V: End of Ages*
Onimusha 3: Demon Seige*
Perimeter*
Peter Jackson's King Kong*
Phantasy Star Online*
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones*
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3: Soaked!*
Rome: Total War*
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory*
Star Wars: Battlefront II*
Star Wars: Empire at War*
Star Wars Galaxies*
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II*
Stronghold 2*
Sudeki*
The Bard's Tail*
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings*
The Sims*: Complete Collection*
The Sims* 2
The Sims* 2 Nightlife* Expansion Pack
The Sims* 2 University* Expansion Pack
Thief Deadly Shadows*
Tiger Woods PGA Tour* 06
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland*
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War Winter Assault* Expansion Pack
World of Warcraft*
Zoo Tycoon* 2: Endangered Species* Expansion Pack

I have a few games not on this list that I play on my Macbook Pro that I'll install and see how they run on the Mini.
I also found another list of GMA950 compatible games posted over on Tom's Hardware forums. I'll see if I can dig that up as well.......
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