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#1 User is offline   Big Bang 

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 07:34 AM

Finally on the platform - anyone got any Experience? Free Portal BTW if you guys havent noticed.

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 07:38 AM

I don't have a Mac, but free Portal is free Portal (Until the 24th). Pretty sweet, but game is easy and short :P
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 10:15 AM

From what I read, it runs faster on Windows, but that shouldn't be surprising. Good to know Mac users don't have to play Flash games all day long. :P
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 12:02 PM

Doesn't work that well.

I have a friend that plays Left 4 Dead 2 nightly with us and he ended up going the boot camp route with Windows 7 anyway.
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 05:05 PM

We tried to play Portal on our Mac Mini... didn't work though... bombed out at even 640x480 resolution. The game refused to even launch inside of my VM. Haven't tried it on the MacBook or MacBook Pro yet tho.
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 05:34 PM

It's not supposed to launch in your virtual machine :P

They'll probably optimize it down the road... no reason why they won't just bootcamp into Windows.
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 03:03 PM

:P Screw Mac - free Portal FTW - thanks!
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 10:21 PM

I played for a couple hours since I got it haha. It was pretty easy IMO, other than the steps where you need to coordinate in making the portals to conserve momentum. :P
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 10:56 PM

Yeah, that and some of those challenge stages are quite difficult. I love that game, wish I had a companion cube.
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 09:21 PM

Here's Tom's Hardware article on the benchmarks:
http://www.tomshardw...-mac,10432.html
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Posted 22 June 2010 - 11:43 AM

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From X-bit Labs: Valve Software, which recently started to sell video games for Apple Macintosh personal computers, has admitted that Apple’s systems have performance issues and computers with similar hardware configuration provide different performance under Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X. The software maker said it was working with hardware vendors to improve performance of its games on Macs.

One of Mac owners has complained about performance issues on Valve’s Steam forums claiming that he/she got only about 33% of a video game performance on Apple Macintosh system compared to normal speed of a similarly configured Windows-based personal computer. A representative for Valve admitted the issue and claimed that hardware suppliers, namely Apple, ATI (graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices) and Nvidia Corp., have to develop new drivers in order to boost performance of popular games designed by Valve.

“Performance is going to improve as drivers are updated. I would expect modest improvements in short term and larger ones in longer term. I cannot put dates on them. We are making a lot of progress is identifying specific issues that need work inside the game and inside OpenGL and drivers. Apple, ATI and NVIDIA are all involved,” an official for Valve said in the forum thread.

Fairly speaking, Macintosh systems are hardly designed for games or gamers. The most powerful graphics card that can be installed into premium Mac Pro system is ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5, which is two years old. Popular iMac systems feature ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 in maximum configuration and ATI Radeon HD 4670 256MB in mainstream setups. Performance of such graphics solutions is hardly sufficient for modern games.


Mac users would be particularly proud of their systems on running something slower on a platform Windows user has been doing since 2003. :P
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Posted 22 June 2010 - 02:36 PM

Yep, that's the way it works out. Mac fanboys keep telling me good thing about it like recently getting Steam, and I just point this out to them. My old AMD rig runs Steam games better than most Macs.
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Posted 23 June 2010 - 03:53 AM

It'll get better on the Mac. Mac users and developers haven't typically had to think about good gaming drivers in the past. with the now 10-year-old Starcraft having been the only real good game for the Mac, and it ran on most anything! :P
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Posted 27 June 2010 - 04:54 PM

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Counter Strike: Source now runs on Mac.

OOOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOooOO something I've been doing on Windows for the last... 6-7 years too :P
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 03:33 AM

View Postchconline, on 27 June 2010 - 04:54 PM, said:

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Counter Strike: Source now runs on Mac.

OOOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOooOO something I've been doing on Windows for the last... 6-7 years too :P

Hahaha true words, man. I read this following quote ages ago on some corner of the internets: "Sometimes Apple misses the obvious while they're busy refining the obscure." Lol I think that was about their iPod line. And I know Apple doesn't develop Steam, but it is kinda related; like seriously, Windows has had Counter Strike forever.
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 02:40 PM

Just run Boot Camp.
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 04:25 PM

How about running Steam in my Mac VM on my Windows powerhouse PC...? Wonder how many FPS I would get there? :P
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Posted 29 June 2010 - 05:09 PM

On a virtualized environment, not a lot. :P
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Posted 30 June 2010 - 08:55 PM

View Postchconline, on 27 June 2010 - 04:54 PM, said:

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Counter Strike: Source now runs on Mac.

OOOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOooOO something I've been doing on Windows for the last... 6-7 years too :P

CS:S on Mac?

NO WAI!

No, rly.
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