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I'm running Portal on its highest settings, except for Anti Aliasing and Filtering which I set to something in the middle.

I get an average framerate of 60. This drops to 30 when looking through a portal. It's acceptable, but not even close to the performance I get in Bootcamp. The rooms I played weren't very big and complex yet, so I'm a bit worried for when I'm getting further in the game.

I expected this, though. Not only because I've heard it from testers. I've been playing Tell Tale Game's Monkey Island and Sam & Max games on the Mac as well (without Steam) and they also perform better on the PC.

I hope Apple will work on improved drivers and a more recent implementation of OpenGL 3 for its "Most Advanced OS". Microsoft is much further ahead in its OpenGL support, while most of the Windows games don't even require it. (Oh the irony!)

All in all, I'm pretty satisfied, though.
 
I find it kind of funny that everyone is having graphical problems. Apple computers except for maybe the latest gen aren't really designed for this kind of gaming. Especially the laptops with a 256mb card coming standard. Most people on PCs who game are running with 1 GB cards which Apple seems to refuse to put even in their desktops.
 
Erwin-Br said:
I'm running Portal on its highest settings, except for Anti Aliasing and Filtering which I set to something in the middle.

I get an average framerate of 60. This drops to 30 when looking through a portal. It's acceptable, but not even close to the performance I get in Bootcamp. The rooms I played weren't very big and complex yet, so I'm a bit worried for when I'm getting further in the game.

I expected this, though. Not only because I've heard it from testers. I've been playing Tell Tale Game's Monkey Island and Sam & Max games on the Mac as well (without Steam) and they also perform better on the PC.

I hope Apple will work on improved drivers and a more recent implementation of OpenGL 3 for its "Most Advanced OS". Microsoft is much further ahead in its OpenGL support, while most of the Windows games don't even require it. (Oh the irony!)

All in all, I'm pretty satisfied, though.
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I think the reason that games perform better on windows is because of DirectX, I don't think most games even use OpenGL by default.
 
I've installed steam...but can't seem to even login. Anytime I attempt to click "login to existing account", it just gives me an error "unable to connect to the steam servers". It seems as if it Steam doesn't see my internet connection. Is this because of the servers being busy? I have steam on my pc (boot camp actually) and it all works fine.
 
ajsnow6234 said:
I've installed steam...but can't seem to even login. Anytime I attempt to click "login to existing account", it just gives me an error "unable to connect to the steam servers". It seems as if it Steam doesn't see my internet connection. Is this because of the servers being busy? I have steam on my pc (boot camp actually) and it all works fine.
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Yeah. I had to try twice to get in. I guess its all about timing but we cant control it.
 
baryon said:
Oh and the best thing: You can CMD+TAB out of the game and do anything else while it seamlessly plays! You can also use EXPOSÉ with it! Try doing that in Windows, once you're in full screen, you have to quit the game to do anything else there! :D
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Thats great, but this functionality exists in windows as well. In Win 7 you can alt-tab out of pretty much any game back to the desktop without interrupting the game or having to quit. Finish with the desktop, and you can alt-tab back into the game instantly.
 
I keep getting Steam needs to be online to update. Check network etc etc. I just downloaded it and cannot open it.
I have tried a wired and wireless connection to no avail. any ideas?
 
*IMPORTANT*

Make sure you go into settings and set your download speed to the fastest possible, for some reason mine was defaulted at 256kbps, i put it on 10mb and got full speed.
 
my dl is paused... crap... off to the PS3....

But I'd rather be playing CS...

F it ... I'm heading over to my W7 side... I'll dl this game later tomorrow....


Off to CS!....
 
Finally finished downloading portal. Crashed once.

Here we go... haven't played it yet. Really looking forward to it!
 
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