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Half-Life 2 Coming to Mac OS X Today
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soo, they ported Steam for mac, and now they are foisting off all their old games on it? Way to squeeze every last penny out of your old inventory.
Not very impressive.
Not very impressive.
If you already bought on Windows, then you get the Mac version for free.
Doesn't seem like squeezing every last penny to me.
They'd better have, because I just tried out Half Life 2 and had to drop to 1280 x 800 resolution to get things running smoothly enough to enjoy.
On Windows I could run at 1680 x 1050 without any problems. Ok, I had to turn off things like anti-aliasing, but I wasn't even getting that at 1280 x 800 on the Mac OS X version.
I got the highest settings recommended on shader, texture details, etc ... same as Windows, but the Mac OS version simply cannot push to the resolutions Direct X does on Windows.
This is why this news announcement is, for those of us with not-so-powerful Macs, not very exciting. I tried running the OpenGL version of Portal on OS X, and found it barely playable at even 1024x768 with all low settings. The game ran silky-smooth on medium settings on the same Macbook Pro, except it was running the DirectX 9 version on Windows XP (via Bootcamp).
Valve has a long way to go in optimizing their games for OpenGL.
Hi guys I`m not so new in Mac world, since iPod, but now I got an iMac, if anyone can gift me HL2 to just be a game that I can play on my iMac I would be great, portal I already finished in Xbox...
Because it's awesome. Just because you don't care about doesn't mean no one else does.
Amen, this is what I want too. They probably need more time to work out the bugs seeing as it's cross-compatable online (meaning, OS X and Windows users can play online together in the same games). Keep it up Valve!
Portal and HL2 is just the beginning...
Steam probably has a sh*tload of games ready. They are staggering releases because they know the servers would be hammered so hard that people might give up and never come back. However they are making these mac compatible is beyond me.
I might buy HL2 and the eps, but I really want to play L4D and other titles I haven't played before.
Steam probably has a sh*tload of games ready. They are staggering releases because they know the servers would be hammered so hard that people might give up and never come back. However they are making these mac compatible is beyond me.
I might buy HL2 and the eps, but I really want to play L4D and other titles I haven't played before.
anybody else bought the orange box? i tried it on my brothers pc and thought it would be cool to have on my steam account, though, when i bought it, only Half Life 2 Episode 1, Half Life 2 Episode 2 and Half Life 2 Lost Coast showed up - still no Team Fortress 2.
I don't know if it's due to the amount of people downloading atm, but i should be able to get the game even though it says (For Mac soon) - shouldn't I?
Edit: I already had Portal earlier this month*
I don't know if it's due to the amount of people downloading atm, but i should be able to get the game even though it says (For Mac soon) - shouldn't I?
Edit: I already had Portal earlier this month*
Obviously we're going to have different experiences. But I clearly remember games like FAKK, Monkey Island, Oni, and even Return to Castle Wolfenstein performing poorly compared to the PC versions I played at the time.
As far as the console to PC port... I don't know. I don't own any of the consoles, and I play video games very selectively now, so I can't argue for or against your point.
The problem is you don't "own" the game. You own a "license" to play the game so long as they feel like letting you play it. They can change the terms of the license at any time or remove your account at their discretion. It is this "licensing" concept that is destroying all consumer rights. No on in their right mind has time to read all those long-winded, lawyer-speak license agreements every time they update them or you install a single piece of software. In fact, almost NO ONE *does* read them. Ignorance is no excuse, of course. But in general, it means you don't own anything. One day will come where you are only licensed a house, car and maybe even a hamburger. If they demand the latter back, good luck retrieving it intact. Corporations have taken over America and "For and By The People" means exactly NOTHING these days since people don't count, only corporations do.
Meanwhile, how old is Half Life 2? I just tried playing it on my MBP from less than 2 years ago (8600M GT) and it choked at my 24" monitors native resolution (1900x1680). I had to lower it down to 1280x800 or whatever the number is (2nd from bottom) to get a reasonable frame rate. Somehow, I don't have much hope for newer games that require a lot more horsepower. Apple REALLY needs to get out a desktop machine that has a real modern desktop GPU that doesn't totally suck at gaming. These mobile chipsets just don't cut it.
Yes since the game is the base for TF2 and the L4d and L4D2 Games... Very current games.
Can someone tell me how to open doors?
Im stuck at the first bit where the guard tells you to enter the room on the left. The door is shut and won't open
Im stuck at the first bit where the guard tells you to enter the room on the left. The door is shut and won't open
Can someone tell me how to open doors?
Im stuck at the first bit where the guard tells you to enter the room on the left. The door is shut and won't open
'E' key, if it doesn't open, then you have to find another path.
i bought half life 2 and i get no sound in the game, just a whole lot of clicking sounds in the menu... help someone???
Do you own it already for the PC? If so, free on the Mac.
...if not, I have an extra copy I could gift you.
Well, hey, if nobody has claimed this yet, I'd appreciate a copy of HL2 or any of the eps
here's my steam account: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ifailatlife
Well, I spent the $21 for The Orange Box. HL2 is done downloading now, so I fired that one up. Experiences:
• Launched x1. Beachball appears during loading screens where on Windows the mouse is invisible, but they load nonetheless. Increased graphics to maximum like I do on the Windows version of a 6-year-old game with 40+ FPS. Crashed.
• Tried to relaunch. Immediate error message.
• Tried to quit Steam. Error message that a Steam app was still running.
• Force quit Steam and restarted. Launched HL2 again. Worked this time.
• Graphics in menu background look like a slideshow. Decreased the graphics to medium settings.
• Started a new game. No audio. In-game looks like 8-10 FPS and lags badly. Completely unplayable.
• Gave up.
Thanks, Valve. Thanks a lot. I think maybe I'll install them on Windows instead.
(My system: 13" 2.4 GHz Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 4 GB memory GeForce 320 M.)
• Launched x1. Beachball appears during loading screens where on Windows the mouse is invisible, but they load nonetheless. Increased graphics to maximum like I do on the Windows version of a 6-year-old game with 40+ FPS. Crashed.
• Tried to relaunch. Immediate error message.
• Tried to quit Steam. Error message that a Steam app was still running.
• Force quit Steam and restarted. Launched HL2 again. Worked this time.
• Graphics in menu background look like a slideshow. Decreased the graphics to medium settings.
• Started a new game. No audio. In-game looks like 8-10 FPS and lags badly. Completely unplayable.
• Gave up.
Thanks, Valve. Thanks a lot. I think maybe I'll install them on Windows instead.
(My system: 13" 2.4 GHz Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 4 GB memory GeForce 320 M.)
Stop saying this game is old - it runs on the source engine which is updated all the time. So yes, the game is old, the engine isn't.
Apparently these "old" games (only by release-date, not by the technology used) are demanding enough to let fairly recent Macs break a sweat.
Not in library?
I purchased Orange Box a couple years ago, but none of the games are in my library.. Any ideas? I've had the same steam-account since it came out.
I purchased Orange Box a couple years ago, but none of the games are in my library.. Any ideas? I've had the same steam-account since it came out.