Casual games and older titles for the most part run well in Rosetta, but newer, hardware-intensive releases will need Universal Binary updates to achieve acceptable performance. Of course, "acceptable performance” is a subjective term, as most gamers know. One Mac Observer reader and owner of a new Intel iMac reported last week that such titles as Halo and Medal of Honor "ran perfectly. Glenda Adams, Director of Development at Aspyr Media, backed up that assertion when contacted by The Mac Observer.Ī game with high resolution graphics looked great and the performance was fast,“ he said.
However, “a few of the more recent games, like The Sims 2 and Doom 3, donit run as well,” she noted, “although it is pretty amazing to see them run under emulation mode with a bit of a sluggish frame rate.” “Any of the games that shipped more than a year ago, like Medal of Honor, seem to run at decent frame rates and look good,” she said. She added that Doom 3 and The Sims 2 will both receive Universal Binary patches, which will be free. “The games that have performance or stability issues will be the most likely to be updated to Universal Binaries.” “Weire in the process of going through our back catalog of games and testing them on the new iMacs,” she explained. Other publishers of more hardware-intensive games reported similar performance.
Henry Price, MacPlayis Director of Sales and Marketing, said that such titles as Aliens vs. “We have not made a determination on Universal Binary patches,” he added. “The guy who claims to be running Halo iacceptablyi on the new iMac may be right,” he added, “depending on what he feels is acceptable and what features heis willing to turn off in order to get an adequate frame rate.” In contrast, Al Schilling, MacSoftis Director of Marketing, said that he has seen a 25% performance decrease on the Intel iMac, compared to the 1.8GHz iMac G5, when running such games as Halo and Unreal Tournament 2004 in Rosetta. “As would be expected, games like Scrabble are smooth and glitch-free.” However, the companyis strategy titles, such as Rise of Nations and Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, “are performing quite well on the new iMac cursory testing,” Mr. MacSoft president Peter Tamte added that the companyis plans for Universal Binary patches will be announced “in the coming weeks,” along with upgrade policies.
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