Shawn_Kehoe
First Post
Two thoughts:
1) A 2.6 Ghz P4 is a lot of processing power for a virtual kitchen table. The shaders look pretty and all, but those should fall within the domain of the graphics card. Most of my buddies do their gaming on consoles, and I don't think any of their PCs have a processor that fast.
2) The article on Wizard's site also notes:
This is kind of strange, since Macs running Windows via Boot Camp have full DirectX support. I've been running Half-Life 2 and Elder Scrolls IV on my 2-year old iMac without any trouble. The one real road bump I see for Macs + D&D Insider would be for some of the MacBook models, which come equipped with the dreaded Intel integrated graphics cards. Any iMac or MacBook Pro users should be fine.
(Sadly, most of my mac-using players have MacBooks ...)
1) A 2.6 Ghz P4 is a lot of processing power for a virtual kitchen table. The shaders look pretty and all, but those should fall within the domain of the graphics card. Most of my buddies do their gaming on consoles, and I don't think any of their PCs have a processor that fast.
2) The article on Wizard's site also notes:
("Other D&D Insider Applications" meaning everything except the game table and character creator.)Because the other D&D Insider applications are not DirectX driven, they should also be usable on Mac computers using the dual boot system.
This is kind of strange, since Macs running Windows via Boot Camp have full DirectX support. I've been running Half-Life 2 and Elder Scrolls IV on my 2-year old iMac without any trouble. The one real road bump I see for Macs + D&D Insider would be for some of the MacBook models, which come equipped with the dreaded Intel integrated graphics cards. Any iMac or MacBook Pro users should be fine.
(Sadly, most of my mac-using players have MacBooks ...)