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Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08 by Electronic Arts

Tiger Woods 08 locks my 2.8Ghz iMac

Written by DE from Lake in the Hills

Oct 16, 2007

Every time I hit the play icon it kills the Mac - to the point I need to reach around back and it the power button. I'm using a brand new 24" 2.8Ghz EXTREAM iMac with 2GB of RAM. Contacted EA Sports, they asked for system profiler info, sent that - but what will that tell them? They're sending me a new disc so I can return an unopened copy to Apple Schaumburg. This stinks - I was looking forward to playing.

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Be aware --USB Speakers cause distorted sound

Written by RK from Eagle

Oct 16, 2007

I use a tucked-away Macbook Pro with Bose (USB) speakers and a HD Cinema display. Bad idea. EA now writes: "Currently we do not test our Mac titles with USB speaker systems. We have encountered issues with USB speakers and our games having distorted or crackling sounds. We recommend using the default speaker layout for your Mac when playing Electronic Arts titles" Does not work for my set-up... Other than that (for me fatal) flaw, the game looks fine.

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Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08 by Electronic Arts

Tiger Woods

Written by MG from Salt Lake City

Jan 16, 2008

What a great game, if you have not downloaded the patch from EA Sports you will need to. On my iMac, 20 inch this is just unreal, the graphic are to good to be true. It looks like real water and when the wind blows the leaves on the tree do their thing. No freeze ups, no color distortion. It is a tuff game, but once you get the feel of the controller or even your mouse, look out, better than the PC version.

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Do Not Bother To Purchase

Written by LJ from Draper

Jan 10, 2008

The game is very enjoyable when it works, but that is not often enough to make it worth the bother. I have had to reload the game 6 times in less than 2 months and lost the golfer I created.

I have spent the last month trying to get support from Electronic Arts but there is only one person that supports the Mac and he has been on vacation for the past month. I have been promised 6 times that someone would call me back to try and resolve the problem but I have never received a return call. I spoke with a person in the corp office today trying to get support and he essentially told me to quit bothering them.

I am running OS X 10.4.11 on a Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 Dual Core with 8 GM of memory.

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Not consistent at all

Written by PS from Wichita

Feb 24, 2008

I have an iMac24 2.4 game runs okay sometimes, but most times there are a lot of graphic problems and games seems to freeze. The frustration level of the software keeps me from enjoying the game.

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Fantastic Game!

Written by RS from Clovis

May 16, 2008

Works great on my MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/2 GB memory. I'm running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2. I was afraid to try it for a long time due to all the negative reviews. Finally the dude at the Apple store assured me that my system would work fine since I purchased it within the last year. I'm very happy I took the chance.

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No open box Returns

Written by OT

Nov 20, 2007

The only thing that Truly upsets me is that the apple store sold me a game that does not work well on my brand new mac book pro (2.2ghz) and they will not accept a return, because the box was open. this shows me that apple will not stand by the products that they sell.
game play is horrendous. I have well over the requirements for the game and still I can only have 800x600 res. better still every other swing is glitched so the ball goes off into the rough even with Tiger.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!!

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Not what I expected. It simply needs alot more work

Written by MP from albuquerque

Nov 30, 2007

Don't Like that I have to always have cd inserted. Sound distorts alot and poor graphics. Maybe they will have a free update to fix the problems

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Great Game!

Written by PM from Farmingville

Nov 22, 2007

This game runs fine for me, works great. I have a new imac with the 256mb ati video on board. 20 inch screen... no problems... been playing it for a week. Not sure what everyone is talking about. I just bought my apple last week!

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Good stuff

Written by CP from Houston

Nov 30, 2007

This game works well with Leopard on my 15" MBP. No glitches so far. Using the mouse as the controller seems to be pretty straightforward. I would only say that the single-player mode gets old after a few weeks. After my first round of 18, I was routinely getting birdies and the occasional eagle. So, not the greatest challenge there. But the other reviews commenting on problems with Leopard/Intel have not been issues for me in the least.

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Doesn't work

Written by JS from BUXEROLLES

Mar 6, 2008

This game doesn't work on my brand new Mac Pro. It doesn't recognize the new 8800GT graphic card :( So don't waste your money with it.

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Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08

Written by JA from BRONX

Apr 13, 2009

One of the best games ever it works perfectly on my macbook, with no bugs or anything. Before i bought the game i made sure that my system was up to date, and I had everything needed in order to run the program.
Great choice in games.

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Not so hot

Written by JS from Selden

Feb 21, 2008

Game play is erratic. I have an coreduo 2.4 iMac and on certain holes it does not play smoothly. I also downloaded the patch that apple recommended. I am very disappointed with the performance of this game.

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Keep Hands OFF!

Written by AE from HAMBURG

Mar 3, 2008

I Have a 3ghz 8Core MacPro with a Nvidia 8800 512MB and 16GB Memory!

The game doesn´t Start and gives me the following message:
"The game does not officially support this video card. You may experience performance problems while running the programm."

When it does not run on my little fellow...what Do you Need then??????

After the message it crashes, I haven´t seen a single screenshot. I already returned it! Waht a waste of time.

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Great Graphics - Good Gameplay - Some Minor Quirks

Written by AK from Brookline

Jan 31, 2008

The game has some quirks, but plays very well on my 2.4ghz iMac. Played it before and after upgrading from 1GB to 3GB ram. Quality seemed identical with both configurations. Patch addresses some, but not all issues (occasional sound issues and flashing textures). However, game has fantastic graphics and generally good gameplay.

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Hey Everyone!

Written by NC

Oct 29, 2007

ok so i complained about this product a while ago and then i got leopard. leopard fixes all of the problems with it or at least for me and i had quite a few. i also recommend rezizing the format to a window. you can ask EA support on this topic. If you dont have leopard then their will be an update later hopefully this month. and to the guy complaining about apple and steve jobs, it wasnt their fault.... well completely. EA had not tested it well enough. apple didnt make the game so they arent responsible for testing. thought i might cue you in on that. so i am running a brand new iMac 24inch and i am playing at full resolution and on the highest graphics setting.

Now for the game itself.
It plays pretty good. its difficult at first and i still have not mastered it. the graphics are ok not as good as they should be for a 2000$ system but its fun and addicting at times. there are still some glitches in the game that should soon be resolved.

the final word on this product from me is that EA should have worked harder on the mac version but for a PC game its not bad. to bad im not running it on PC

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Freezes constantly

Written by JS from Carrboro

Jan 8, 2009

The game freezes without fail after 5-10 minutes and the only way regain the use of my MacBook Pro is to hold down the power button until it switches off. Electronic Arts haven't offered any fixes for this problem in the last year, so I would have to say avoid at all costs, unfortunately. Madden NFL '08 uses the same technology, so it may suffer the same problems too.

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bug riddenl and no support from Electronic arts

Written by ND from london

Nov 21, 2007

On the electronic arts sports page you can click for support on every platform OTHER than the mac. The sound sometimes turns off totally and you have to restart the game. Bits of text are appearing as block graphics that look like some kind of indecipherable code. I can't find a patch anywhere to sort this. Also my player seems to have an inexplicable growth coming out of his shoulder. When it works its good. No wonder everyone is playing pc games on their mac. Well the ones that can get b o o tcamp to work in the first place (I'm not one of them).

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