Diablo eats Macs

Okay, I have something embarrassing to admit. It's been a week, about 40 hours of gaming and I'm still at normal mode in Act 4. In a gaming point of view:

OMFG M sucks so bad! 40 hours and STILL on normal?

I have a very good reason for it. Blizzard hates Macs. And yes, all you gaming geeks with spanking new PCs, I have a Macbook Pro, live with it. I will engage Diablo himself in a tumble if he ever tried to take my MBP from me. (I will never part with anything that has my collection of anime, manga, stories, Big Bang Theory and pictures.)

I have never been much of a PC gamer. The only games I played on the PC were  Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII (PC, because I had no access to the Playstation on school months, ah bittersweet youth), an MMORPG here and there. Oh, and Solitaire. Sitting in a computer chair just doesn't do it for me.

Imagine my joy when Playstation 3 had wireless remotes that allowed me to curl up on the bed and have my killing sprees while hugging my pillow. But I digress, topic at hand, yes, I'm a console gamer, not a PC one. Again, imagine my joy when I found out that Diablo is Mac compatible. An awesome game on a computer that hasn't made me tear my hair out in frustration since 2008! A dream come true!

Until Act II of Diablo. My amazing wizard who was blasting critters left and right suddenly started running like she has arthritis in her knees. Enemies started teleporting and all my character could do was run like a girl in a cheesy romantic reunion for 3 lagged out seconds before a grave marked the spot where she was last seen with a full health orb.

I credit my gaming (and Q button bashing skills, coupled with prayer, crossed fingers and a level 60 wizard belonging to my cousin to rescue my lagged ass) that I even made it to Act IV. Remember how I said Act II was bad? Act IV's Izual boss kicked my ass in 0 seconds. Because in one frame, he was barreling towards me, in the next frame, there was the grave. After 5 more tries of the magic grave appearing act, I logged out of disgust and started trouble-shooting the problem.

Apparently, irregardless of how new the Macs are, many Mac users have the same problem. People who ran Diablo via Bootcamp had it working fine, so it was not a graphics card or performance issue. Though the problem seems to be Macs with Nvidia 9400m cards.

Yes yes, my graphics card ain't no shiny new piece of technology but hello! The last game I played on my Mac was Farmville 2 years ago, who needs graphics card?!

BLIZZARD HATES MACS!

Granted, they have announced that they are aware of the problem and are working on fixing it, but I found a workaround that didn't require bootcamp. (Sorry, I only have 250GB of space on this dear ancient MBP that is barely enough for my anime, I'm not about to waste space on bootcamp.)

Download Parallels, download windows as an .iso, install Windows (7 or 8 works fine, but 7 takes up a lot of memory, I used 8 beta). It improves the FPS issue significantly though anything above low/nil display option kills my Mac.

DIABLO EATS MACS!

If Blizzard doesn't release a patch that stops my wizard from acting like an old crone, I swear I will master that ray of disintegration spell, march down to their HQ and blow them all into bits!

*grumble* Ninety bucks to get forced into using low-res display *grumble* shitty servers with their long maintenance times *grumble grumble grumble*

My favourite scene thus far. SPOILER ALERT!!