Macbook Pro running games (Such as Steam)

[alphaod]

Look as much as Mac OS X just destroys windows in almost every aspect, game developers right 90% of games for windows only. To be able to play Crysis, CoD4, even steam (crossover, it works but meh, why pay $40). Just install windows. You won't even notice its installed. Just always boot into Mac OS X, then when u wanna play games, hold down Alt/Option and click windows. Then set it to reboot into mac os x when your done. Thats what I do at least.

Or you can just compile wine from source and it's free!

 

[Consultant]

And everytime you need to run it, you have to do that... sure must be fun

Nope, what the Bootcamp software in OS X DOES is:
- Partition the drive
- Burn a disk of drivers for windows

Clock changing would be a one time thing. You can also find newer windows drivers for Macs running windows (bootcamp drivers) if you can find old Bootcamp.

 

[shmutheprophet]

Or you can just compile wine from source and it's free!

Well I know "WINE Is not an Emulator," but regaurdless, recreating the DirectX enviroment won't yield the same quality results of playing a DirectX game in the original DirectX enviroment. It's like a Sony TV vs some random chineese knock-off. Sure, it works, but its a copy of the sony not the other way around, and the build quality wont be the same.

 

[alphaod]

Well I know "WINE Is not an Emulator," but regaurdless, recreating the DirectX enviroment won't yield the same quality results of playing a DirectX game in the original DirectX enviroment. It's like a Sony TV vs some random chineese knock-off. Sure, it works, but its a copy of the sony not the other way around, and the build quality wont be the same.

Actually I find a lot games run better in wine than in Windows because Windows is a bit bloated and not very optimized.

And those Vizio TVs are both good and cheap!

 

[VerticaLx1]

Any more comments guys? Can't wait to get this and start pwning!

 

[nidserz]

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Lol I play cs 1.6 (I think) through steam and just got an iMac. Don't really wanna use bootcamp to boot into windows everytime so I might try out the 'crossover' way when my brother gets back to town and helps me out.

Back to OP. Just by reading the posts in this thread I feel good about running steam on a mac through bootcamp or crossover without lag/problems. Just enjoy your new mbp!

 

[VerticaLx1]

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Lol I play cs 1.6 (I think) through steam and just got an iMac. Don't really wanna use bootcamp to boot into windows everytime so I might try out the 'crossover' way when my brother gets back to town and helps me out.

Back to OP. Just by reading the posts in this thread I feel good about running steam on a mac through bootcamp or crossover without lag/problems. Just enjoy your new mbp!

Thanks. I can't wait once I get it. I'm so excited to run mac for the first time, and then running XP with it!

 

[J DILLA]

anyone have updates on how Steam runs on new MBPs?? specifically newer games such as Left 4 Dead, etc

 

[Niiro13]

I use my MacBook Pro for even tournaments in CS:S (yes, I know desktops are better and I definitely will eventually get one once I get the money) in Boot Camp and it runs max settings really well. Mote that max settings means 1440x900 (15" MBP), 16xQCSAA, and 16x Anistropic. It starts to get a laggy after that (I wish I could use my LED Cinema at it's full resolution, but the 9600M GTs aren't powerful enough).

I've also used CS:S in CrossOver. It plays really nicely (not max settings, because CrossOver can't do DirectX 9.0 fully yet) except when you try to capture a demo, then it really dies.

 

[Dan73]

CSS is an old game it should will play fine.

If you do plan on using bootcamp I'd use Win7, XP is terrible and old.

If you really are serious about gaming I'd just stay away from Macs in general.

 

[Malithion]

I use crossover but so many errors! But it works good enough for me to play Half life2 death match but I get odd errors when playing the regular game.

 

[Panzo]

crossover is poop, too many glitches, bugs and artifacts. nothing beats playing games natively, also if your into any type of competitive gaming you know that every lay, delay, counts.

Mbp can handle the average game under bootcamp, just stay away from crysis.