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Valve Teases Team Fortress 2 Release for Mac Tomorrow, Delays Portal 2 to 2011
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I am very new to macs, and look to actually get my first in the next few weeks. I plan to get the new MacBook Pro 13". Will this be good to play games on? Now that there is steam, I would like to play TF2, maybe CS as well. Thanks.
Great!
Theres going to be a big influx of players that don't cloak as spy, don't airblast as pyro, don't deploy ubers as medic, and don't detonate stickies as demos.
I usually mainly play spy.....so hoping for a little while at least not as many spy checks
You're suppose to reverse the characters or something
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This is awesome.. hands down my favorite computer game to play!!! Now I can ditch my PC completely!!
I think this is one of the best moves by ValvE EVER
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Awesome!
I was just getting into this game when I decided to make the switch over to Mac. Tried to play it for a little bit in bootcamp, but very quickly got tired of the whole rebooting thing.
Another game to have some fun in
I was just getting into this game when I decided to make the switch over to Mac. Tried to play it for a little bit in bootcamp, but very quickly got tired of the whole rebooting thing.
Another game to have some fun in
1) Grand Central is not a magic panacea for performance. It makes it easier than writing threaded programs yourself, but if they already parallelized it for Windows, they won't get any benefit from it.
2) OpenCL and OpenGL do two different things. You don't get rid of OpenGL code when you add OpenCL. If anything, using OpenCL would make graphics performance worse. OpenCL lets you do normal mathematical calculations on the graphics card. Which is only useful if you're doing the same calculation several thousand times a second.
Maybe the delay is because they are now releasing both mac and pc versions at the same time....
Generally when a large company adds Mac compatibility or PC compatibility, they hire Mac/PC programmers due to the different language, different operating system, different frameworks, etc.
Rarely is the Mac and PC team comprised of the same people for large companies.
OpenCL has nothing to do with the rendering, displaying, etc. of graphics. It basically transfers CPU stuff to the GPU. I think people care more about their frames per second than how hot their CPU gets or how they can't multi-task like fifty applications, not to mention Valve games don't use enough CPU to benefit from OpenCL (chess on the other hand...).
Anybody else having trouble logging into Steam on Mac right now? I can't get signed in but have no problems under Windows.
NEVERMIND, stupid clientregistry.blob fixed it.
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NEVERMIND, stupid clientregistry.blob fixed it.
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BootCamp rules!
While Steam works perfectly on OS X games are crashing and running rather poorly compared to Windows...
Simply have best of both worlds by installing BootCamp
My 2 cents and strong recommendation to all Mac users!
While Steam works perfectly on OS X games are crashing and running rather poorly compared to Windows...
Simply have best of both worlds by installing BootCamp
My 2 cents and strong recommendation to all Mac users!
No one cares about Mac gaming? Hahaha, tell me another joke.
I hope I get a Mac-only item just to make the PC players blow an aneurysm.
I hope I get a Mac-only item just to make the PC players blow an aneurysm.
I have one thing to say: Modern Warfare 2. Thank You.
Is a terrible comparison! Really it is. Activision charge for 3 new maps and 2 old ones... Valve have been throwing out free content for TF2 ever since it was made. New maps, new weapons, new achievements, new gamemodes, new music, short "wars", engine updates, balancing updates. All free! The games also a lot cheaper and have occasionally lowered the price to £3.
But Valve are just awesome in so many ways. They really put the greedy publishers to shame.
Ok, where'd you pull those facts from? Some lost fps I agree with, though it's getting better, but I'd are the osX games really crashing more..?BootCamp rules!
While Steam works perfectly on OS X games are crashing and running rather poorly compared to Windows...
Simply have best of both worlds by installing BootCamp
My 2 cents and strong recommendation to all Mac users!
I've seen a lot more crashes in Windows running the same games. KF particularly.
HL2 crashed so much on me that it literally forced me to go back to BootCamp...
And not only that - on the same MacBook Pro - under Windows I am running the game maxed out at much higher frame rate...
It is very simple really:
Direct X combined with Windows Graphics Drivers simply beats to the ground OpenGL and Mac graphics drivers when it comes down to gaming...
I uninstalled Mac version of Steam and all the games from my Mac partition and am simply enjoying them without any crashes and at much higher quality via BootCamp
EDIT:
And by the way Steam is clever enough now to remember your game progress so I simply continued playing via BootCamp from where I stopped on OS X - genius!
Ah, so a single user's experience extrapolated to be universal.HL2 crashed so much on me that it literally forced me to go back to BootCamp...
And not only that - on the same MacBook Pro - under Windows I am running the game maxed out at much higher frame rate...
It is very simple really:
Direct X combined with Windows Graphics Drivers simply OWN OpenGL and Mac graphic drivers when it comes down to gaming...
I uninstalled Mac version of Steam and all the games from my Mac partition and am simply enjoying them without any crashes and at much higher quality via BootCamp
I've not had HL2 or portal crashes in osX. I get pretty comparable FPS in both OS.
I'm enjoying them without any crashes with the same settings without having to reboot and quit all my other apps, and have deleted them from my Windows partition.
My recommendation would be "if you're having problems with the osX versions or demand slightly better performance, install them in bootcamp instead."
It also seems that running a game whilst other tasks are going on is smoother in osX (than win7-64). I know a lot of people would tell you not to do that, but sometimes its handy to run games in a window whilst other things are going on.
Certainly on my Macs there just isn't this night-and-day difference some people seem to be experiencing.
While I agree many games are currently experienced best in Windows I'm sure this will change. We're talking about software here it's not static.