Hello,

BS 5 is on the door and I have to say that I'm delighted to see that they've returned to the feeling of first two Broken Swords. Have no idea how the actual game will fare but I'd like to ask one question before that.

I have Macbook "13.3 (yes, it's old but it's kicking!) with 2GB of system memory and (I guess) 144MB of graphic memory. I see that BS 5 requires 256MB of graphic memory so is it totally useless for me to even dream about playing this game on my Macbook?

I'm pretty sure it'll work. You might experience lags if you run out of graphic memory and the game has to reload graphical data form somewhere else, but I doubt you'll even get those. This is a 2D game and thus rather frugal graphic wise. Your graphic memory is Shared Memory anyway, meaning it's just a reserved part of your general system memory (RAM) for use by the video processor. The 2GB RAM should be enough to swap data from general to graphical memory without involving your harddisk too often (which makes the processes much slower). Just make sure to close all other applications while playing.

If you've doubts, you can always check if the demo runs smoothly before buying the game.

It should, as the minimum system requirement is OS X 10.6.8 (or later).

Hey, thanks for the swift reply! Any idea where I could snatch the demo?

I've checked it and unfortunately the demo was only available during beta phase to people backing the game on Kickstarter (Broken Sword Silver Members and above) :-/
Hence, there's no way of testing right now. To be on the safe side, I'd ask the support at Revolution Software )http://www.revolution.co.uk/contact)

As for your graphics card, it looks like it's an Intel GMA X3100 and unfortunately it seems there's no easy way to increase the assigned amount of 144 MB shared memory. Though Apple states, that the card gets dynamically up to 160 MB if intensive applications need more (on a MacBook with 1 GB RAM). As you've got the 2 GB RAM version you might be lucky and get even more.

EDIT: It seems the 4 GB version dynamically assigns up to 384 MB, but I haven't found any infos about the 2GB variant yet. 384 MB is the maximum the GMA X3100 is able to address.