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MacBooks and the Orange Box
Aydr
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Having heard so many good things about the Orange Box, I recently decided to go ahead and get it. I checked out the specs, and found that my computer (a MacBook) should indeed be good enough to run it.
Sadly, the games seem to disagree with me.
Every time I try running one of the games, the game crashes. So far the only one who's problem I've figured out is Half-Life 2's, which crashes every time that the game autosaves. Looking around the web, I've heard tell of the Orange Box working on some people's MacBooks. Only problem is, I can't seem to find how.
I'm using Windows XP in bootcamp to attempt to play. Anyone able to help? I, too, want to learn to think with Portals and study the veracity of baked goods.
tl;dr: My MacBook doesn't like the Orange Box please make it work.
Sadly, the games seem to disagree with me.
Every time I try running one of the games, the game crashes. So far the only one who's problem I've figured out is Half-Life 2's, which crashes every time that the game autosaves. Looking around the web, I've heard tell of the Orange Box working on some people's MacBooks. Only problem is, I can't seem to find how.
Aydr's computer specs wrote:Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
I'm using Windows XP in bootcamp to attempt to play. Anyone able to help? I, too, want to learn to think with Portals and study the veracity of baked goods.
tl;dr: My MacBook doesn't like the Orange Box please make it work.
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I doubt this will work to any satisfactory degree.
There is indeed, the Pro has a dedicated graphics card inside. The MacBook's integrated graphics card CAN run HL2, you can get ~20-30 FPS on the lowest settings
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SpSAf56v1S4
Granted, a 64-meg Intel graphics processor is pretty bad even for an integrated graphics option, but I bet it should still run. Maybe the fact that it's running on a Mac, with such a poor graphics card, is the problem? I dunno, I'd maybe fire an email off to Valve and see what they say.
Yeah, I'm sure they were talking about running it on regular MacBooks, not Pros.
And I've actually gotten HL2 to run fairly well on it, and it even sets the default settings to high in most categories. The only problem for HL2 is the save function, so I'd assume that in regards to HL2 the video card isn't an issue.
I have a Macbook Pro 1.83Ghz, 768 Mb ram, the 128mb Radeon X1600 running, OSX 10.5 Leopard. Many thanks for anyone that can help me play my favorite games on my laptop
You might have looked at it already, but this gives a few tips that might help you out. There are some other articles on the steam site that may be relevant as well.
Before, Boot Camp was definitely the way to go, but it seems Cross Over gives you another option.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hPrWplpCQUQ
Note, this was on a MacBook, so you should definitely see better results than that.
Again, I'm just going to reiterate, 2 gigs of ram will help out a whole lot in running HL2. HL2 scales down wonderfully, so yes, that integrated graphics card can run it. It's possible. I've done it. On a weaker processer than the OP's.