I’ve been an “on-again, off-again” WoW player since the WoW beta. In the beginning I played the game on my G4 eMac with an NVidia 7200 video card. It ran OK with all the detail turned down. I then bought myself a MacBook Core Duo, and on that machine, WoW played WELL with the detail turned down, and OK will the detail at it’s medium settings. I recently upgraded the OS on the MacBook to Leopard, and installed World of Warcraft after a long hiatus. After an entire day of downloading all the WoW patches I needed to catch up on, I began playing the game. My first reaction was WOW. (No pun intended.) You see, some serious OpenGL tweaks have been made to both WoW, and to the newest version of the Mac OS, Leopard. Now, WoW runs WELL with all the graphics settings at their default (medium) levels. Now, to uber-gamers, this post will sound awfully unimpressive; but what you have to realize is that the graphic card in a MacBook is not a very impressive one, especially in gaming circles. I’m quite impressed that with software tweaks alone, Apple and Blizzard have made it possible for WoW to run quite well on an Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics card that shares system memory. The improvement is enough for me to enjoy WoW a lot more than I used to, and because of that – I’ve renewed my WoW subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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