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Far Cry seriesFar Cry 2 on a Macbook Air?(6 posts)(6 posts)
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Posted May 17, 2012
I'm thinking of getting Far Cry 2, since I've been looking for an open world shooter for a while and this looks like just the thing. Unfortunately, I only have access to my 2011 MacBook Air at the moment, so I will be playing it via a Wineskin. I know this is definitely not the ideal system for gaming, but it's the best I can do at the moment, and I've found various people online claiming that they can get reasonable frame-rates on low to medium settings: 20-40 fps. Has anybody on this forum tried playing Far Cry 2 on a MacBook Air.

Mine is a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5, with 4GB of ram and Intel HD 3000 graphics card.
Posted May 17, 2012
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Bokaj: I'm thinking of getting Far Cry 2, since I've been looking for an open world shooter for a while and this looks like just the thing. Unfortunately, I only have access to my 2011 MacBook Air at the moment, so I will be playing it via a Wineskin. I know this is definitely not the ideal system for gaming, but it's the best I can do at the moment, and I've found various people online claiming that they can get reasonable frame-rates on low to medium settings: 20-40 fps. Has anybody on this forum tried playing Far Cry 2 on a MacBook Air.

Mine is a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5, with 4GB of ram and Intel HD 3000 graphics card.
I *highly* doubt that. The only way to be sure is to try, but I think you'd be wasting time and money.
Posted May 17, 2012
If you have a way you could try running it via bootcamp. I play my pc games on my imac that way.
Posted May 20, 2012
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Bokaj: I'm thinking of getting Far Cry 2, since I've been looking for an open world shooter for a while and this looks like just the thing. Unfortunately, I only have access to my 2011 MacBook Air at the moment, so I will be playing it via a Wineskin. I know this is definitely not the ideal system for gaming, but it's the best I can do at the moment, and I've found various people online claiming that they can get reasonable frame-rates on low to medium settings: 20-40 fps. Has anybody on this forum tried playing Far Cry 2 on a MacBook Air.

Mine is a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5, with 4GB of ram and Intel HD 3000 graphics card.
I can say with 100% certianty that a vid card like yours being intel onboard junk will _NOT_ run the game in any way. Infact i suggest against buying anything made in the last 5 years and trying to play.
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Posted May 20, 2012
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dragoshaw: I can say with 100% certianty that a vid card like yours being intel onboard junk will _NOT_ run the game in any way.
I'd say your certainty isn't a 100%. The game doesn't run fast on my i3 (2,5GHz DC HD2000), I get about 25fps on low @1440x900, but it does run. If it's playable is another question, I'd say that depends on how much you want to play the game.

As for the OPs scenario I have no idea how it will run. The extra software layer will induce some kind of performance penalty and the CPU is slower than mine but the graphics is faster.
Posted May 22, 2012
The game is quite well optimized, you may be suprised. I'm currently running the game on a i5 (2430M) Win 7 laptop with a GeForce 540M, but quickly testing it with integrated graphics (HD 3000 something) I think you could get it running on low-ish settings at a decent framerate, though you may have to run it in Boot Camp.

I would just wait personaly though, don't trust integrated GPU's at all for games.
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