Visual problems on Macbook Pro!

[Midgeyman]

Hi,

I have the early 2011 13-inch Macbook Pro with an Intel HD 3000 graphics card and have ALMOST got to the point of running Medieval 2 Total War. I have a Steam version of the game, and am using a Windows version of Steam though Crossover to play it. I have also got rid of the launcher problem by renaming the medieval2.exe file (actually, it works for Kingdoms too).

The game will run, and the audio will start - but the graphics are terrible. Although I can see the hourglass at the start, all other graphics have been reduced to big blocks of very basic colours. I have no idea how to proceed from here. I know it isn't a memory allocation issue, as I have Lion (has dynamic memory allocation). I don't think it's a resolution issue, as I have tried mucking about with that in the .cfg file.

I know about Bootcamp, but I'd rather not go through another rigmarole. Please, any other ideas?

Thank you in advance.

[irishron]

The biggest problem is Dedicated Memory of which CA's posted specs when the game was released was 128mb and it looks crappy untl at least 256mb of Dedicated Memory and a dedicated graphics card.
There is another member using Crossover but I'd say a majority of the successful ones are Bootcamp.