[iBook] iBook Gaming

[S. Douglass]

on 10/04/2004 3:44 PM, David Binnion at davidwb at spymac.com wrote:

> On 10/4/04 3:05 PM, "S. Douglass" <sloppyagape at christian.net> wrote:
> 
>> I am not a serious game player. It's just a nice way to pass the time.
>> 
>> I am curious about Sim City 4. Will it play on an iBook 700?
>> 
>> Sys requirements are not to terrible. It will run on a high end G3.
>> 
>> What I want to know is... Will the video card in the iBook 700 support it.
>> Different sites say different things. One sight lists working video cards
>> and any Radeon is supported, which the iBook 700 has. Aspyre says it takes a
>> 32mb card to say. A couple of folks from the Mac Addict Forums say you can
>> in fact, run it on the 16mb Radeon just fine.
>> 
>> Anybody have any personal experience?
>> 
> I *think* I still had my iBook when SimCity came out but I wouldn't swear to
> it. But I will swear to is that I have a QuickSilver G4 desktop (512 meg
> running at 867mHz with a Radeon 9000 video card) and SimCity 4 runs quite
> slowly on it. Even turning down the whiz bang graphics doesn't really help;
> once the population starts expanding the slows strike it again. This was a
> major complaint among PC users too. As much as I like the SimCity franchise,
> I found the game unplayable on all but my new PowerBook but since it causes
> the fans to run constantly I stopped playing it on that as well. I sold the
> game on eBay.
> 
> david
> 
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That is heart breaking to hear. I have heard much the same from many.

As I mentioned, I am not a hard core gamer. I am a thoughtful gamer. I like
games like Sim City and The Sims.

I am betting the Sims will run well on the iBook. On my iMac DV/SE 400,
there are moments when everything turns into a slideshow.