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mulletman13

mulletman13

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Hey all,

Just thought I'd post a topic to reassure everybody that it runs perfectly fine on a 17" iMac at 1440 x 900.

The video stress test in CS:S runs at a respectable 102 fps.

I pose this question to everybody though...

I am not familiar with gaming on Windows anymore, its been about 5 years. I'm looking for a program that will let me use my Xbox 360 wired controller with CS:S and HL-2.

I've tried something with "Pinnacle" in the title, but it isn't doing too good of a job.

As for mouse and keyboard... I know more control, blah blah, but I play better with a gamepad :)

Thanks!
 
mulletman13 said:
Hey all,

Just thought I'd post a topic to reassure everybody that it runs perfectly fine on a 17" iMac at 1440 x 900.

The video stress test in CS:S runs at a respectable 102 fps.
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Thank you!!!!!! Can you post the iMac's specs?
 
mulletman13 said:
Hey all,

Just thought I'd post a topic to reassure everybody that it runs perfectly fine on a 17" iMac at 1440 x 900.

The video stress test in CS:S runs at a respectable 102 fps.

I pose this question to everybody though...

I am not familiar with gaming on Windows anymore, its been about 5 years. I'm looking for a program that will let me use my Xbox 360 wired controller with CS:S and HL-2.

I've tried something with "Pinnacle" in the title, but it isn't doing too good of a job.

As for mouse and keyboard... I know more control, blah blah, but I play better with a gamepad :)

Thanks!
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I am under the impression that the xbox 360 wired controller works out of the box with windows, and includes a driver cd, when purchased by itself. I only have wireless controllers on my 360, but a quick search at microsoft yielded this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/m...sion=Download XBox 360 Controller for Windows

And the first option is the driver for windows xp for the 360 usb controller.

Happy gaming!
 
'ello all,

Thanks for linking to the driver, but you are right -- it is noticed off the bat and installs properly.

The problem is just that HL2 has no options in it to map joystick/gamepad to the keys... so I'm looking for an addon or plugin that will let me do this.

As for the specs on my machine, everything is standard:

160gb hdd
128mb x1600
17" LCD
512mb RAM

It looks great and doesn't get the fans working at all :)
 
mulletman13 said:
Hey all,

Just thought I'd post a topic to reassure everybody that it runs perfectly fine on a 17" iMac at 1440 x 900.

The video stress test in CS:S runs at a respectable 102 fps.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the performance update mulletman13. :) Its nice to hear real world reports on the performance of Apple's computers.
 
dmw007 said:
Thanks for the performance update mulletman13. :) Its nice to hear real world reports on the performance of Apple's computers.
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Indeed. Just finished updating the firmware; XP SP2 and HL2, here I come!
 
Well done apple. BOOT CAMP works a treat. I have installed windows within an hour & have office, div x, firefox etc... all up and running

GREAT! Just what the doctor ordered. I wonder what will happen to onmac.net project now? There isn't any need for it.
 
Question: (this makes me look like such a Mac user...I'm glad that I am) how much HDD space does HL:2 and CS:S (maybe CS:CZ too) take up? I'm partitioning just for those games, so how big should I make my Windows partition?

I'm thinking 8 GB should be okay...right?

EDIT: Oh, and what steps will I need to take to make everything ready to install all that, i.e. DirectX?
 
MacRumorUser said:
I wonder what will happen to onmac.net project now? There isn't any need for it.
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It would seem that the success of that project forced apple's hand to release an offiial dual boot software.

Takumi
 
I made a 50 gig partition for XP only because I have a lot of old .avi files that can only be encoded using windows movie maker to make them .wmv files..Which should then play fine in Quicktime..
 
Age of Empires III runs fantastic on a base iMac core duo 17" 1.67. The settings are not quite all the way up, but it still looks frickin amazing! Battlefront II works great, Battlefield 2 works great, HL2 works great...dang im lovin this!:D :D :D
 
HL2 does run great. MacBook Pro w/2 GB ram and the 256 MB Radeon. Warning! The 3D mark 05 crashed my Mac twice.
 
clykins90 said:
Age of Empires III runs fantastic on a base iMac core duo 17" 1.67. The settings are not quite all the way up, but it still looks frickin amazing! Battlefront II works great, Battlefield 2 works great, HL2 works great...dang im lovin this!:D :D :D
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You have an Intel iMac 1.83 core duo not a 1.67..
Apple doesn't have a iMac 17" 1.67 ;)
 
I have the iMac Core Duo 2.0 with the 256mb of VRAM and 2gb of RAM, this thing plays the game beautifuly. No lag, nothing, it runs like butter! I did the Direct X 9.0c December 2005 update (free via Microsoft.com - no validation or Windows Genuine check needed so you can use FireFox) and it installed fine, no errors, and the games look great. You can download it here:

DirectX End-User Runtimes (December 2005) Full Download

Day of Defeat Source and Counter-Strike Source run the same, they run great, this is fantastic. I am now installing Star Wars Battlefront II, after that I'll install Guild Wars, LEGO Star Wars, and when I find the disc, Battfield 2. This is a very good day to be a Intel Mac Gamer ;)

EDIT: Also I went to install Skype and I got a bluescreen of death, I restarted and deleted the folder and everything's fine, just a word of caution.
 
LimeiBook86 said:
EDIT: Also I went to install Skype and I got a bluescreen of death, I restarted and deleted the folder and everything's fine, just a word of caution.
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Early reports suggest that you are the first to experience the dreaded BSOD on a mac:p

Takumi
 
Takumi said:
Early reports suggest that you are the first to experience the dreaded BSOD on a mac:p

Takumi
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Nah I saw a screenshot of it on a MacBook Pro before I even got started...off to play Star Wars Battlefront II! :D

EDIT: Star Wars Battlefront II runs perfectly, Guild Wars runs perfectly...with everything on max settings with Anti-Aliasing on 4x this rules! :D
 
asherman13 said:
Question: (this makes me look like such a Mac user...I'm glad that I am) how much HDD space does HL:2 and CS:S (maybe CS:CZ too) take up? I'm partitioning just for those games, so how big should I make my Windows partition?

I'm thinking 8 GB should be okay...right?

EDIT: Oh, and what steps will I need to take to make everything ready to install all that, i.e. DirectX?
Click to expand...

Yea dude, 8 gb should be enough... I'd go ten to be safe for future updates or something.

Also... what is CS:CZ? I'll google it but post it here too :)
 
mulletman13 said:
Hey all,

Just thought I'd post a topic to reassure everybody that it runs perfectly fine on a 17" iMac at 1440 x 900.

The video stress test in CS:S runs at a respectable 102 fps.

I pose this question to everybody though...

I am not familiar with gaming on Windows anymore, its been about 5 years. I'm looking for a program that will let me use my Xbox 360 wired controller with CS:S and HL-2.

I've tried something with "Pinnacle" in the title, but it isn't doing too good of a job.

As for mouse and keyboard... I know more control, blah blah, but I play better with a gamepad :)

Thanks!
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thats pretty tyte.... i was wonderin how steam games would run and then i found this post!
 
Awesome, I'm glad CS:S works great on the iMacs. Anyone installed it on a MBP?

I'm installing CS:S on my Mac mini Core Solo :p haha it'll probably run like crap :)
 
mulletman13 said:
Yea dude, 8 gb should be enough... I'd go ten to be safe for future updates or something.

Also... what is CS:CZ? I'll google it but post it here too :)
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Condition Zero. Basically a 1 player version of CS 1.6. It sucked :)
 
asherman13 said:
Question: (this makes me look like such a Mac user...I'm glad that I am) how much HDD space does HL:2 and CS:S (maybe CS:CZ too) take up? I'm partitioning just for those games, so how big should I make my Windows partition?

I'm thinking 8 GB should be okay...right?

EDIT: Oh, and what steps will I need to take to make everything ready to install all that, i.e. DirectX?
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I think if you use macdrive software you will be able to install it to your OSX partition in case you run out of space. Actually I would save most of my documents on my OSX drive from windows so I could access them when I rebooted into OSX.

-rich
 
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