Guild Wars on Mac

[Moonglum]

Hi all,

Just want to know if Guild Wars will work on my Macbook if i install it via Bootcamp. Also how much data will it use since im planning to play via my Vodacom 3g account.

Moonie

 

[bwana]

Not sure - what are the spec's for the game?

 

[Moonglum]

Minimum System Specs:

Windows XP/2000/ME/98/Vista
Intel Pentium III 1 GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
3 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 8500 or NVIDIA GeForce 3 Series Video Card with 64 MB of VRAM
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse
DirectX 8

Recommended System Specs:

Windows XP/2000/Vista
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or equivalent
1 GB RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
4 GB Available HDD Space
ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 series video card or above
16-bit Sound Card
Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse
DirectX 9


Macbook with 2 gig duo core and 1 gig ram but with the intel onboard graphics

Dont wanna go through the whole bootcamp installation thing if it wont work

Moonie

 

[bwana]

http://www.notebookforums.com/post2180961.html - one guys opinion.

 

[Gargmel]

Dont worry about the connection though, there are people playing guild wars on dialup

 

[ravage]

Ya internet cant be a problem

I've played on sentech 256k Wireless for months and my friend played on 56k for months also! And downloaded the sorrows furnace thing also with no problem...

 

[Moonglum]

ok but how much data will a typical session use ? Im on a 500mb Vodacom package

Moonie

 

[ravage]

depends what you mean "typical session" hehe

Well in an instanced area, you will use less than a kb a second

In heavily populated towns i see it rise to 2-3 kb/s (max, usually i get 1 or 2)

Thats download speeds, upload speeds will increase usage but i do not know the figures

 

[lilDeath]

500mb should be enough for a month. It all depends on what kind of addict you are.
General bw consumption is very low / hour. in the region of <10-20MB / hour of play. We used to do 25-30MB for about 3 hrs with 3 of us on the same connection.
As mentioned above, some towns and outposts are busier though and due to this your bw will go up.