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HL2 on macbook pro....drivers soon?

yeah, i posted before clicking the link, thinking they were talking about the earlier video of it running on a mini. whoops.
 
esoteric0 said:
that's running on a mini, and the mini uses the integrated graphics chip. that's a little easier to get drivers for than the ati chipset.
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Except... its running on a MBP.
 
in the video its a powerbook, not a mac mini. Its a different video.

EDIT...Sorrry for the double post
 
Kingsly said:
Ahem, MacBook Pro. 😉
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Sheesh, I guess I'm just really excited. 🙂 Steve Jobs even mispoke and said powerbook at the mac mini/iPod hifi announcement, so i don't feel THAT bad. Thanks for the reminder though.
 
Hold up guys..

Did the drivers to get the Ethernet/AirPort working come out yet? Because, I'm sure you need to be connected to the Internet to actually play any Steam game.

Well, at least I do..
 
Deinonychus said:
Hold up guys..

Did the drivers to get the Ethernet/AirPort working come out yet? Because, I'm sure you need to be connected to the Internet to actually play any Steam game.

Well, at least I do..
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Those were pretty much the first working drivers anyone found, so no worries.
 
I'm not sure if they have figured out the drivers problem. Maybe it was just the camera, but it looked like they were getting maybe 10-20 fps in a part of the game with no action. Could that be acheived without the drivers?

However HL2 with 20 fps is better than no HL2 at all.
 
OSXpert said:
Steve Jobs even mispoke and said powerbook at the mac mini/iPod hifi announcement, so i don't feel THAT bad. Thanks for the reminder though.
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Okay, you're off the hook then.
As for the drivers... I'd like to see some higher framerates and a system properties dialogue box that says "Video: ATI x1600"
 
There is no way that game would even boot without some sort of drivers working.

As for the frame rate, it's too hard to tell the fps of the game, because the fps of the video is so bad! Take a look when he is doing other things, the camera is constantly shudding.
 
jamesmcd said:
As for the frame rate, it's too hard to tell the fps of the game, because the fps of the video is so bad! Take a look when he is doing other things, the camera is constantly shudding.
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Looks to me like whoever took the video did it with an iSight. At one point in the video the camera keeps trying to focus then unfocus, and sometimes randomly changes the brightnes. Those two things always happen to me when I'm using my iSight.

My $.02
 
looks definitely fake to me. notice how as soon as the game "starts" that he doesn't once move the camera again? riiiiiiight.
 
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