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Been thinking about coming back, but how will it run?
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Stoker Remsen
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-08-23 22:34:04 UTC
I haven't played in a long time but I've been getting the itch to get back into it. Then the 14 day free game time showed up and, well, here I am.

I'm downloading the client now but I wanted to also ask y'all: Will I even be able to run the game decently on my Macbook?

Specs
2Ghz Intel C2D
2Gb DDR3 1066 RAM
nVidia 9400M

It's the first run of the aluminum MacBooks from late 2008. I don't have the money to get a new computer or anything of the sort and I won't for a long time. But I've been thinking about throwing down 25 to 50 dollars to at least upgrade my RAM from 2Gb to 4 or 8. I don't know how much that will help for this game, though. Any input on that?
Aricaan
Rum and Quafe
#2 - 2012-08-24 03:32:00 UTC
You might be able to, but it would be on the lowest settings :(

Im basing this on the year and not actual specs. I had a 2009 iMac and when they came up with the planet update I had to turn things way down to get a good framrate.

Of course, you can always just download it and make a fake account to just try it out.
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#3 - 2012-08-24 04:45:11 UTC
Assuming it runs, more memory will really help overall speed.

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Meolyne
Perkone
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-08-25 19:46:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Meolyne
oh dear !

The fact is... this is a low-end C2D 2.00 Ghz.
i think it "was" the minimum requirement for Eve Trinity.

Now at he actual in-game ram monitor :
Login screen : 300MB
Station : 1300MB
Space : 1700-3000MB.


not counting the 9400M shared VRAM and Cider quite poor multithreading.

i think you experience will not be quite outstanding.

in fact, for you Eve could run pretty decently under bootcamp unfortunately.
On this mac, i won't bet. even with 4Gb RAM.
but, who knows? if you like 10-20 Fps in most conditions, then...

Edit : Remember the trial is generally well played. tiny ships, not doing much things etc...
you should try to join a mate in a high level mission / anomaly, just to see perfs with those ugly 'rats
Ailees
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-08-26 17:15:49 UTC
Sigh
Meolyne
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-08-27 17:43:43 UTC
Sorry, my requirments are quite high since i've got this MacPro you know...

ok, what i was trying to say is :

2.00Ghz : don't ever think you gonna see big fleets battles happily with that.

9400M : quite OK with that. as long as you don't turn everything to high and not connecting to a 30" cinema display.

2GB RAM : 1.7Gb free after start. 1.6 with iTunes. that's ok if you don't set everything to high once again. but if you're playing with 40x Safari's tabs on youtube, it's a no-go.

is it clearer ?

Remember on a laptop, your slow hard drive will add some bad lags between some smooth passages P

You still have a Bootcamp option when you're looking for trouble in EVE.
Esker Sheep
The Black Sheep Inc
#7 - 2012-08-30 17:35:27 UTC
I'm playing on a 2.4 GHz late-2008 MBP with 4GB of RAM. This model has the 9400M GT dual gfx card setup. I'm not sure if the 2GHz one has that.

I'm running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

I dual-box for ratting and PvP, though the second account has everything turned to minimum. It's used to login a carrier for PVE and a scout alt for PvP. Performance is adequate for me. I can play as well as I always have.

I triple-box when mining. This causes issues when changing state (docking/un-docking) as the 4GB isn't enough to run three clients. Fortunately the firmware version I have will support 8GB so I've got that on order and it should make my triple-box setup work.

Obviously a newer, faster, MBP would do a better job and allow me to turn on more graphics features but at the moment that is beyond me.

I'm not sure I could play under Windows as I make use of the trackpad and gestures to move between workspaces and the different clients.