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Need for Speed Carbon

no leopard

Written by VW from BERLIN

Nov 24, 2007

not working in leopard

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Need for Speed Carbon

doesn't work with leopard

Written by PB from combs la ville

Nov 6, 2007

on my iMac 20" C2Duo with Ati x1600 128Vram, only the sound!!
On EA support nobody have fix for this issue.

Work fine on mac osX.9

99 of 137 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

After 10.5.5 screen goes to blank

Written by MH from TAMPERE

Sep 19, 2008

Worked very well with 10.5.4 but after 10.5.5 upgrade screen goes to black when games starts. Game runs as "blind"

No support available from Apple or EA. Nice :(

65 of 79 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Not worth 30$

Written by FS from San Polo di Piave

Nov 7, 2007

Very disappointed with his port, playing it on my MBP 2.2, 2gb ram, 128mb vram is frustrating. i get every kind of graphical glitch, like some rainbow things goin on, reflections during gameplay are all messy, and it bugs and skip frames, lowering graph settings makes it so dark that's almost unplayable.. and fact is that this game runs flawlessly under bootcamp.

95 of 143 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Waste of money

Written by JR from Valadares

Jan 14, 2008

Always crashing on leopard, slow, choppy, etc. Don`t waste your money with this thing...

194 of 348 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Don't buy!! Screen goes black on 10.5.5

Written by WV

Sep 25, 2008

No updates found sofar.

84 of 129 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Carbon

Written by TH from Camp Springs

Dec 27, 2007

The game crashes at the end of every race on my new MacBook Pro. The game is a waste of money for me. There appears to be no support for this game.

202 of 373 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

NFSC is "Blind" in Leopard

Written by LR from Tower Lakes

Nov 1, 2007

Need for Speed Carbon does NOT work in Leopard. I bought NFSC not too long ago and it worked fine on Tiger. I just upgraded to Mac Leopard and now the game plays with sound only and all I can see is a black screen?? Does anyone know how to fix this.. I was in the middle of a "Career" and now I cant play the game any more!

43 of 56 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Keep your money

Written by BM from Las Vegas

Apr 24, 2008

Does not work with OS X 10.5.2. To many things don't work such as scrolling, menus. can't change default keys, etc. Hope EA comes out with a patch soon fixing this flawed game. Also will not let you play online!

93 of 167 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Not recommended

Written by AD from MEMPHIS

Sep 26, 2007

I bought this game after reading the reviews, and boy am I disappointed. I have a MBP 2.4 17" high res screen with the top of the line graphics and 2 gig of ram. The graphics are decent but game play is horrible along with the cars speed being to slow and terrible reponse to the game pad. I have played other EA games such as Burnout Revenge on Xbox and and there is no comparison.

19 of 28 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Waste of money

Written by AD from Harpswell

Sep 29, 2007

Looks wonderful, but is incredibly unstable. This game seems to not been beta-tested enough before release. The game gets more unstable as you advance; until it gets to a point where it unplayable. Reinstalling the game does not fix the problem. Wait until there is an update before even thinking of purchasing NFS. A terrible disappointment. Avoid at all costs; for now.

44 of 81 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

forty dollars

Written by DL from Brooklyn

Sep 26, 2007

How do they dare sell a game for $40 without testing it?

Cannot get past the second career race because it crashes in the middle always at the same place.

new macbook pro 2.2Ghz

Letting you all know that is is a REALLY bad port, buggy, slow, hardy playable. Watch out. And battlefield is worse.....

29 of 52 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

Terrible.

Written by RS from Oakton

Oct 2, 2007

The worst. Crashes halfway through the first race, so i had to choose a different car to start the game. Controls revert to default at weird points during gameplay. Skips and shuts down constantly. For some reason won't escalate chases past the very beginning of level two, even though i'm about a quarter into the game. Not worth it. I like my mac, but it's true... they don't play games. I'll just buy an xbox or something.

48 of 97 people found this useful

Need for Speed Carbon

System requirements a little misleading...

Written by MS from Pittsburgh

Aug 28, 2007

On a 20" iMac (2GHz Core Duo) with 2GB RAM and a 256MB Radeon x1600, this game will often momentarily pause or hitch up visually when new scenery appears on screen or when more than a few cars are on screen at the same time. It may run fine on a newer/better machine but I'm very disappointed in the game's performance on my system given that it exceeds the published system requirements. The game itself seems pretty cool and would probably rate four stars but I'm knocking two off for the performance issues. Hopefully, EA will address this problem at some point but for now, those just meeting or exceeding the requirements should probably steer clear.

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Need for Speed Carbon

Fun game but it "needs more speed"

Written by KH from Charlotte

Aug 30, 2007

I'm using a 2.33 gigahertz 24" imac with 2 gigs ram and a Geforce 7600. I have been playing the game for a week and enjoy it but am disappointed with the fact that I'm getting such low framerates. The game runs ok with mid level graphics settings. Maybee it runs smoother on the Mac Pro.

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Need for Speed Carbon

The Graphics

Written by PB from Berrien Springs

Aug 24, 2007

I was so excited when I saw that Need for Speed Carbon was going to run natively on the Intel Mac! I bought a copy right away, and to my dismay it ran absolutely horribly. The graphics were very grainy, and it definitely wasn't running at full speed. If you think its because I was running it with the minimum possible system requirements you are unfortunately wrong... I was running it on a Mac Pro 3ghz Core Duo with 256Mb Video memory and 2Gb of Memory. I was viewing it on a beautiful 23" Apple Display. If any system should have been able to handle this game, its this one. I wouldn't waste your time with it. I have run Need For Speed Most Wanted through Windows via Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro and it ran awesome. I am very sad that I have to send this game back. Some things are just to good to be true...

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Need for Speed Carbon

Slow and Choppy

Written by KC from Los Angeles

Jun 26, 2008

This game was a bit of a disappointment. After I installed this behemoth of a game (about 5+ gigs) on my brand new Macbook Pro, I began racing immediately using the game's modest default settings. I expected the gameplay to be fluid and responsive, what with the 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and the NVidia 8600M GT supplying the power, but to my disappointment, no, it was still sluggish and even choppy at times.

The default settings were 640x480 resolution and low detail. Should be nothing for my Macbook Pro, right? Wrong. My Macbook Pro still struggled. And as expected, raising the graphics settings yielded poorer performance.

I guess I'll have to wait until Feral Interactive's Total Immersion Racing becomes Universal Binary before I can race again. By the way, I'm running Leopard 10.5.3 with 2GB RAM.

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Need for Speed Carbon

Not worth it.

Written by MH from Laurel

Oct 3, 2007

On my new 24" iMac this game is really buggy, It never exits properly, I always have to force a restart. This game's graphics really don't look like anything amazing, and the controls are awkward. The game's content itself is also just plain annoying, at least in the beginning of career mode there are at least 30 minutes of useless movies that really don't need to be half as long as they are. This game really has nothing that makes it worth the money (or any money at that). This game was also definitely not worth the hype or wait that its announcement at the keynote generated.

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