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Half-Life 2 Coming to Mac OS X Today
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They've answered my question by adding a 'mac coming soon'. good on them. purchasing...
That's funny since a lot of review sites are showing that these games on the same systems all perform far better under Windows.
It's got to be both versions, they're interchangable!
They added HDR lighting to the engine, should make it look a lot nicer!
I will admit that has been my experience with Portal when comparing OS X to Windows versions, with Windows 7 on Boot Camp.
Yeah same, it's playable though so I don't really mind. I never played Portal for the graphical fidelity
Since I own both a PC and a MacBook though it's my hope that performance can be improved so there is little to no disparity on similar hardware
God what a noob you are. It's updates to the engine, not some miracle graphics overhaul.
GG on owning yourself.
Source is a lot like the Halo engine. It's continuously updated to keep it current. Halo Reach is the same engine as Halo 2 and Halo 3, and it looks so much better.
It seems that Valve backported these changes to HL2 and EP1 (which was something they had been promising to do), which should make HL2 look much more like a current game.
They didn't backport the higher polygon models they used in EP2, but EP2 should definitely look like a modern game.
Source is a very competitive engine. It's not the same code they had 6 years ago.
lol seriously, even the updates that demoed in the Lost Coast and showed up in later Episodes weren't all that large an upgrade
This is so great!!!
Alright... servers can't keep up... but being able to download Half Life 2 for the Mac.. for free..!!
Bought this game on DVD for Windows all those years ago. Who would have thought back then that it would come to the Mac... native... for free... (wow..!!)
That didn't work for Doom 3... I bought both the Windows and Mac versions... forget any form of discount!
Alright... servers can't keep up... but being able to download Half Life 2 for the Mac.. for free..!!
Bought this game on DVD for Windows all those years ago. Who would have thought back then that it would come to the Mac... native... for free... (wow..!!)
That didn't work for Doom 3... I bought both the Windows and Mac versions... forget any form of discount!
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Great news again for mac gaming as three (or one and two thirds) of the best ever FPS games are now native.
I can't wait to do a playthrough with the engine update and achievements, I'll do it on my PC though, and keep OS X for work, I still dare not install steam on OS X as I'm afraid I'll procrastinate too much.
All I need now is Black Mesa and Episode three (I hope both get released this year).
P.S. and for all those whining about this being front page news, or an old game (not many new games get even close though IMHO), with HL2 out of the way you know that TF2, CS:S and L4D 1 and 2 will be heading their way to OS X pretty soon
I can't wait to do a playthrough with the engine update and achievements, I'll do it on my PC though, and keep OS X for work, I still dare not install steam on OS X as I'm afraid I'll procrastinate too much.
All I need now is Black Mesa and Episode three (I hope both get released this year).
P.S. and for all those whining about this being front page news, or an old game (not many new games get even close though IMHO), with HL2 out of the way you know that TF2, CS:S and L4D 1 and 2 will be heading their way to OS X pretty soon
Um, the Halo games probably changed engines much more than any other modern franchise. Halo 2 was built on the unreal engine, I believe, after Bungie realized they couldn't update the old engine with the crazy deadline set for Halo 2. Halo 3 was a new engine that focused mainly on HDR lighting, used again only for ODST. The Reach engine runs on what Bungie describes as a completely gutted version of 3's engine. If you look at the documentary, the changes are pretty drastic, not just a few new effects added in.
What I'm trying to say, is, engines don't look drastically different without a completely new lighting engine, or other completely rewritten system, not just a few added effects, like HDR lighting or better textures.
I don't play video games besides Bejeweled and solitaire Mahjongg. Are all modern video games these days glorified murder simulators? It hope this doesn't reflect negatively on Apple's market, which is typically more mature.
Speaking of that, what's with all this "own" and "win" and "fail" talk? Learn to type/speak properly.
Speaking of that, what's with all this "own" and "win" and "fail" talk? Learn to type/speak properly.
Apple in general dislikes these sorts of things. When WoW on Mac was underperforming, Apple went to town with optimizing their drivers, and was actually showing Win vs Mac benchmarks at WWDC.
SC2 and Source underperforming will get them off their asses again.
Slow downloaders: Did you pick the server closest to you? I selected the one in my city, so that may be why I'm getting 1.8 MB/sec. If you went with the default download server, that may be why it's so slow.