I installed Steam on my Mac and was browsing the Mac Games section, but I dont see Team Fortress 2 being mentioned there. So how are you guys playing it via Steam?
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First Impressions of Steam for Mac Including Portal and Team Fortress 2
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Then how come Macrumors and other sites have a first impression on the same? Also, the article is directly in relation to Steam. Whats that all about?
Steam on Windows via Bootcamp, the ONLY way to game. Steam for Mac is a complete failure to people who actually game.
Meh. Rebooting sucks. As does running Windows.
Steam for Mac will get there. Give it some time.
(And it was on every torrent site).
Is 45 seconds too much time for you to reboot into an operating system where gaming is not a problem?
Unless Steam is completely rewritten in Cocoa (instead of Carbon) and in its own Mac OS x version instead of just the Windows version, then Steam for Mac OS X is a failure.
Actually, Steam for Mac OS X is fine. It's the games that are crappy in performance.
Is 45 seconds too much time for you to reboot into an operating system where gaming is not a problem?
Unless Steam is completely rewritten in Cocoa (instead of Carbon) and in its own Mac OS x version instead of just the Windows version, then Steam for Mac OS X is a failure.
Actually, Steam for Mac OS X is fine. It's the games that are crappy in performance.
It is when you want to do anything else between games. I often like to swap out of games and do a little freelance or something like that while something is loading or I'm "out." I love TF2 but hate rebooting into Windows so I never play it. Plus, my machine is on all the time and I have dozens of tabs opened in Firefox. It's not just rebooting, it's starting over with everything open on your machine.
People don't have a computer (Mac Pro especially) to do one thing at a time.
For example this morning I booted up Portal for a quick level before going back to my already open Lightroom Library.
Or maybe while it renders something, a quick game, or maybe whilst its doing a print job or something.
Steam for mac is needed, and badly.