Horrific fps on a G4 Powerbook
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Horrific fps on a G4 Powerbook
by Chaosreigns » Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:03 pm
I know I don't have the best laptop, but it feels like this game should run a hell of a lot better than it does now. It's a 1.25gHz machine, with 512mb of RAM. Not the best, clearly. Even when I drop every setting to the lowest possible, it still runs at an unplayable framerate, something like 10-20fps, it seems. The game looks worse than Quake 1, at this point. I can play UT2k4 at low settings and get 40-50fps. Is there anything I can do here?[/i]
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by Chaosreigns » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:31 pm
I think it's a mobility 9600 with whatever drivers it shipped with, like 4 years ago or so.
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by divVerent » Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:06 am
On that card, I didn't even get good fps on Windows, but slightly okay.
The game simply is not made for such old cards, and the Apple drivers make it even worse. The highest you can get with this card on Windows is somewhat good looking 60fps. I bet the OS X drivers are very poor, as usual, and you can't do anything about it other than switching to Windows (or using Bootcamp).
The game simply is not made for such old cards, and the Apple drivers make it even worse. The highest you can get with this card on Windows is somewhat good looking 60fps. I bet the OS X drivers are very poor, as usual, and you can't do anything about it other than switching to Windows (or using Bootcamp).
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by SavageX » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:11 am
Installing Windows on a G4 Powerbook for sure would be an interesting thing to try 
But anyway: Anything "advanced" is likely to malfunction badly on OS X OpenGL drivers and I'm not sure how Apple distributes drivers with fixes (do they even update drivers for PPC? Do you have to buy a new OS X version?).
But anyway: Anything "advanced" is likely to malfunction badly on OS X OpenGL drivers and I'm not sure how Apple distributes drivers with fixes (do they even update drivers for PPC? Do you have to buy a new OS X version?).
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by Ed » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:18 am
SavageX wrote:Installing Windows on a G4 Powerbook for sure would be an interesting thing to try
NT4 was available in a PPC version although I'm not sure if it would run on a Mac or not.
There are PPC Linux distros which might offer better performance.
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