Can I game on a Mac? Be honest please...

[Rodus]

Download Sun's virtual machine and run Ubuntu as a guest on that (all free). Linux is easy to set up nowadays, Ubuntu will pretty much walk you through it.

Lynx can be found here, as I said, it's very safe

 

[Gooden]

Pc's are better for gaming. But for a laptop my MBP 13" with 4 Gb of RAM runs WoW and Css perfectly well, had no problems at all. I do use Cross Over for Css instead of bootcamp as I fix it's better. So really it's up to you! Check out codeweavers site and look at cross over games and it
should give you more information on the games it can help you run!

 

[cryingrobot]

Honestly...no

I have tried every avenue as I really like an hour of FPS or Fallout 3 to wind me down at night. Yes I currently bootcamp into XP and game but I would love to be able to just open the game up in OSX. Forget virtualization.

I am just really surprised software companies have not been offering OSX ports considering how big the apple marketshare has become...10% from what I have heard? That is a significant number from a sales perspective. Is it not worth dedicating some time to make an OSX port if it means 10% potential gross revenue? Particularly with software companies lie Bethesda and Valve that seem dedicated to PC gamers.

 

[Huntn]

Can you guys go into more detail about how to get linux/lynx broswer set up?

Is Linux any good for gaming? Don't you need Linux versions of those PC games to run?

 

[morgothaod]

I went ahead and bought a mac after playing around with it for awhile at best buy. I tried playing Quake Live on it, but the furthest I got was installing the plug in. When it came to playing the game (the 10 minute trial match to assess your skills), I just saw a black square. I wonder if I installed the wrong plug in. I got it off of quake live. Did I do something wrong or can I not play that game on the Mac OS?

 

[Miharu]

No, the game definitely does work on Mac... Are you using Safari for it? I'll test how it works on Snow Leopard if it might be because of that.

edit: Just installed it on Safari using Snow Leopard and it seems to work flawlessly. Maybe try to install it again or restart your browser?

 

[morgothaod]

The mac at Best Buy had Safari on it. Maybe it had the wrong version or I didn't restart the browser properly? I'll tell you guys if I'm having any trouble installing Quake Live on my macbook. I'm waiting for it to be delivered .

 

[lorenwade]

I play games on my mac all the time and prefer it. Granted, I really only play Blizzard games (which are known for same-as-pc quality for mac), but I do play all the time. I run Snow Leopard, N52te Belkin gaming pad, and a Razer death adder. Works great.

 

[Huntn]

I play games on my mac all the time and prefer it. Granted, I really only play Blizzard games (which are known for same-as-pc quality for mac), but I do play all the time. I run Snow Leopard, N52te Belkin gaming pad, and a Razer death adder. Works great.

Has the WoW-SL thing been fixed? Someone reported some video issues initially with Snow Leopard.

 

[morgothaod]

I just got my Mac and it does work ! It plays wonderfully!

 

[Huntn]

I just got my Mac and it does work ! It plays wonderfully!

Oh ye, bow down to the golden calculator and join the crowd!

 

[morgothaod]

Oh ye, bow down to the golden calculator and join the crowd!

I want to find some more free games now- mmorpg, fps, fighting

 

[Miharu]

You could try Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, it's free at least.