Gaming on Mac

[Stetwin]

Just a simple question really but what games apart from ones made by blizzard run on Mac without having to use bootcamp/windows? Also will there be any more big games titles released in a dual format so mac users don’t need to have windows to game?

 

[icecone]

Just a simple question really but what games apart from ones made by blizzard run on Mac without having to use bootcamp/windows? Also will there be any more big games titles released in a dual format so mac users don’t need to have windows to game?

WoW, UT2004, halo, sim city, age of empires....
coming soon:
ut3, gears of war, need for speed carbon, battlefield 2142, command and conquer 3.....

 

[Stetwin]

WoW, UT2004, halo, sim city, age of empires....
coming soon:
ut3, gears of war, need for speed carbon, battlefield 2142, command and conquer 3.....

The future looks good but are any big developers signed to develop Mac games or are we just going to be seeing best sellers ported over?

 

[diadem]

UT3 aint out yet its a new game that going to mac on release... things are improving as of the last WWDC apple has started talking to game creators.

 

[overcast]

Kind of difficult to play next generation games, when there are no video cards available for MACs And no, the x1900 just doesn't cut it.

 

[diadem]

Kind of difficult to play next generation games, when there are no video cards available for MACs And no, the x1900 just doesn't cut it.

Are you on drugs the X1900 will run all games out right now as well as al games that are coming out in the next 6 months.

 

[TSE]

http://www.transgaming.com/products/cider/

take a look at that.

 

[diadem]

Cider is just a Wine wrapper in one word is "cr@pers" The perforamance is not good as all due to the DirectX issue. There resolution for it is not very stable thus why no one uses it.

 

[icecone]

http://www.transgaming.com/products/cider/

take a look at that.

Seems that getting the windows version is better
Things only get worse but never better after transforming

 

[Papajohn56]

Cider is just a Wine wrapper in one word is "cr@pers" The perforamance is not good as all due to the DirectX issue. There resolution for it is not very stable thus why no one uses it.

what are you talking about, it is not a wine wrapper, and EA is using it

 

[chex]

cider has nothing to do with wine. it is used by the *developers* themselves to port a game to mac.

 

[kolax]

Check out - http://www.apple.com/games/

EA Games signed a new deal with Apple to bring out all major releases on both platforms (PC and Mac) at the same time, and the new releases coming out look really promising.

Also, if you are into Wii games that are about game play and not graphics, check out http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/

 

[Kosh66]

cider has nothing to do with wine. it is used by the *developers* themselves to port a game to mac.

It does not port the game. It's a translator (on the fly), thus it takes a performance hit because of the wrapper API as one of the other guys called it. Ported games have the code actually changed/converted/ported before-hand not on the fly. There is NO developing here.

Also, as the other guy said, Cider is derived from WINE.

See http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/08/03/cider/index.php

and http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/06/11/eas_new_mac_games_will_demand_intel_based_systems.html

So basically they're selling you a windows game wrapped in an API translator which translates windows commands on the fly. Not the best. I'd rather have a ported game.