Thread: Guitar Hero III for Mac

Hey guys, I just bought the new black Macbook (2.4 ghz core duo, 2gb ram, 144 mb GMA X3100 intel integrated graphics card, 250 gb of harddrvie). I've been reading around and apparently Guitar Hero III won't work on a MacBook because it was an intel chipset card, but some places say since the new macbook has 144 mb of video graphics, it'll still run the game, you just have tweak some graphics settings in the game. Anyone have any info on this? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Uh...you need a really good computer to run it...not integrated graphcs since its a bad port of the xbox 360 version.

>.< but why would they make such an undemanding game, specs wise, so demanding. Probably have lost TONS of sales because of it.

Idk, just go dl frets on fire :)

Originally Posted by 1337noob

Idk, just go dl frets on fire :)

That's like telling the new kid on theyo to just use an imperial!
frets on fire sucks! It is only kinda fun with a guitar controller. and the only way to get the controller is with GHIII.
It is filled with too many long chords on most songs and because of the way the graphics are set up, it is hard to hit a lot of notes.

Hey, what's an integrated graphics card?

Originally Posted by Tommy Nickels

Hey, what's an integrated graphics card?

It's a sucky cheap video card built onto your motherboard. Usually it uses part of your RAM as it's own. Not for gaming.

Originally Posted by Tommy Nickels

That's like telling the new kid on theyo to just use an imperial!
frets on fire sucks! It is only kinda fun with a guitar controller. and the only way to get the controller is with GHIII.
It is filled with too many long chords on most songs and because of the way the graphics are set up, it is hard to hit a lot of notes.

Hey, what's an integrated graphics card?

I agree, FoF is not the best, but it will run on his system and its Free! I just wish they would fix the GH3 for the PC so that it would run well :P

An integrated card isn't THAT bad:P, but yeah they better fix GHIII for pc/ mac >_>.

Yes they are.

Period.

Once you've had dedicated, its the hardest thing to go back :\

Yeah true, but the fact of the matter still stands, they've mad the wrong choice on making guitar hero III so demanding.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...nplm=TP700LL/A

System Requirements

• Mac OS X v10.4.10 or v10.5 or later
• 2GHz or faster Intel Core Duo processor (2.33GHz recommended); does not support PowerPC processors
• 1GB RAM (2GB recommended)
• 6.1GB free hard-disk space (5.1GB + 1GB swap file)
• Video card: ATI Radeon X1600 or nVidia GeForce 7300
• Video memory (VRAM): 128MB (256MB recommended)

It does not support Intel integrated video chipsets.

• DVD-ROM drive
• Macintosh mouse and keyboard

Yeah I know lyn_lover, I was just asking because I read some places that the game still works.

Well i think it should or there wouldnt be people buyint it

Hmmm I'll see if I can get a copy or something I can try out.

Originally Posted by cycro27

Yeah I know lyn_lover, I was just asking because I read some places that the game still works.

Works <> playable

It might run, but it'll look like a slide show.

>.< so true

So is the video chipset the same thing as the video card?

It serves the same purpose, excpet a video card is dedicated to your graphics (allowing for smoother, better gaming, videos etc) while a chipset kinda does everything.

Oh!

(lol! 1337noob, I didn't even realize you could put GHIII songs on FoF! Now it is actually fun!)

It is all custom content ><