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Dragon Age 2 - Mac version?
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Macworld has a Dragon Age 2 preview - Bioware claims it runs better than the Mac version of the first Dragon Age.
Choice quote from Bioware: “There is no Mac Steam version…yet.”
EDIT: If I'm reading the preview correctly, a demo is due Feb. 22!
Choice quote from Bioware: “There is no Mac Steam version…yet.”
EDIT: If I'm reading the preview correctly, a demo is due Feb. 22!
I really really hope they do have such a policy, Native applications only please.
Its why ill buy MAC games from steam but not from the MAC app store. Cider/Winskin/wrapper ports are just shoddy, selling us the PC version, with a cheap wrapper and then adding a %premium to the price.
I fell foul of the MAC Dragon Age Origins, wasted my money on an unplayable copy of the game, bought the PC version and playing that under boot camp is fine. (Mac Version, barely playable on low settings on Nvidia 8600m GT 512mb, under windows, playable on high settings), scary thing is, under parallels the PC version runs better than the MAC cider port this is just sloppy !!!
Blizzard and valve have proven that you don't need wrappers to bring games to the MAC, we (the MAC game buying public) should not pay for wrappered ports anymore.
They don't, there are cider games on steam.
What cider ports are you referring to? The mac games that I am aware of on the app store are all native (Aspyr's and Feral's.)
I think it's best to evaluate a game based on its speed an not on the tech used. There are some good cider ports as well as bad native ones.
you guys are funny. what's native port anyway nowadays for PC, mac? there is no native anymore. it's all about console port. they don't make PC or mac only port anymore. what is it? back in 2003?
A "native" port is a game that has been written to run natively under OS X. A native port can also be a console port.
I imagine it has something to do with licensing issues? From a technical standpoint it couldn't possibly be that difficult I would guess.
In any case we should get enough information from PC users about the demo, including YouTube videos and so forth, that can serve as a preview of sorts for us.
Looking forward to it despite my concerns.
-PN
They'd still have to pay Transgaming to do it. Guess they didn't think it was worth the expense.
They'd still have to pay Transgaming to do it. Guess they didn't think it was worth the expense.
Probably. We can't even get Aspyr to build a demo of Civ 5.
That one's more of a time issue, I know Aspyr has said they want to do one but they've been working on the game + patches.
I have a few standby PC games and up until last week, a decent gaming/play laptop (Asus G71G-Q) which finally kicked the bucket and is going back to Asus.
I've been thinking about a MacBook Pro (would be my first, but typing this on my iPad) for a while now....mostly for some Mac Only Music I/O Apogee hardware I've been craving.
I'll need to Bootcamp probably due to not wanting to lose those Microsoft only games, outside of the rebooting, is it a pain?
Thinking of going SSD (either Mac or replacing on my own but no idea if the software restore would be tough) to minimize boot times.
I so wish the new ones had the rumored "stock" SSD drive for Mac OS.
Thinking about going with a new MBP
It's really only a few extra steps to installing Windows on a fresh computer. You run the Bootcamp assistant in Mac OS which will walk you through partitioning your hard drive to allocate space for Windows, load up the Windows installation disk, reboot and then Windows installs.
After Windows installs, you load up the Snow Leopard install disc and run the Bootcamp Assistant setup from within Windows to install the necessary drivers and software. After that, run the Bootcamp Assistant software in Windows and go to the tab to select your default bootup OS, Mac or Windows.
From then on you only need to hold down the Alt button, during bootup after the grey screen shows and the gong-like sound plays, to pick which OS you want to boot, other than the default OS you chose. You can also go to ATI's website (assuming you get a 2011 Mac) and get updated drivers for your GPU, since the Snow Leopard ones may be outdated.
The only pain I know if you're trying to install Windows itself and you get the error message saying there isn't enough continuous free space, because you've been using the Mac OS a while and files are all over your hard drive. The message is telling you to defrag your hard drive, but Mac OS doesn't have a manual defrag tool, because the file system doesn't benefit from it. You'd have to get a third-party app, if that were the case.
As for software restore, is if you're using Time Machine now for your backups, just load up the Snow Leopard installation disc on your new Mac, reboot, and do a Migration not Restore. Plug in your external hard drive with the Time Machine backup and choose that as the source for Migrating. Depending on how much data there is, in a few hours or longer, you'll have all your apps, documents, mail, etc loaded up on your new machine with your same username and whatnot.
Would you rather have a crappy native port? *shudders at thought of Aspyr butchering another Bioware game KOTOR-style*
It's not ideal, but it's a heck of a lot better than nothing.