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Steam for Mac Now Live, Portal is Free Until May 24th
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Shucks, the Torchlight saves don't transfer from pc. Someone said it in another thread but I had my fingers crossed.
It was downloading at like 700 kb/s and now it says suspended like 50mb from complete!!! argggg!!!!
Hoping it resumes soon...servers must be overwhelmed.
Hoping it resumes soon...servers must be overwhelmed.
Wow.... ok ....
Apple hardware is doing just FINE at playing games for me, as long as they don't cripple them with bad Cider ports! (Granted, I'm using a Mac Pro ... but that's what you WANT to use, if you want a really good gaming experience out of your Mac, along with everything else.)
I can either boot into Windows via Boot Camp and run them just fine, or run them quite playable as native OS X programs (Call of Duty 4, etc.).
Steam coming to the Mac is the best thing that could happen to them, gaming-wise -- because it gives the small developers some real exposure for their work (games like Enigmo were written first for the Mac, but didn't really get too well known until they started porting it for other platforms). Plus, it makes everything more accessible. Even the "big name" titles aren't always easy to get ahold of for the Mac, because local stores don't bother to carry them on their shelves.
I find that 99% of the people bellyaching about the Mac having "too poor of video and too few options" to be usable as a gaming machine are just hung up on chasing the best performance, regardless of practicality. (EG. What good is being able to render a game at 240fps when the human eye can't even tell the difference between that and HALF as many frames or less? And what good is running a huge LCD at a really high resolution when it's been proven that for gaming, a 22" or smaller LCD is optimal anyway? Your eyes can't take in the whole scene at once, at a normal viewing distance from a monitor when the screen is larger than that.)
The only really legitimate reason a Mac hasn't been a "good gaming machine" so far is due to lack of interest in developing software titles for it. The ONLY way to ever turn that around is to support efforts like this one!
Apple hardware is doing just FINE at playing games for me, as long as they don't cripple them with bad Cider ports! (Granted, I'm using a Mac Pro ... but that's what you WANT to use, if you want a really good gaming experience out of your Mac, along with everything else.)
I can either boot into Windows via Boot Camp and run them just fine, or run them quite playable as native OS X programs (Call of Duty 4, etc.).
Steam coming to the Mac is the best thing that could happen to them, gaming-wise -- because it gives the small developers some real exposure for their work (games like Enigmo were written first for the Mac, but didn't really get too well known until they started porting it for other platforms). Plus, it makes everything more accessible. Even the "big name" titles aren't always easy to get ahold of for the Mac, because local stores don't bother to carry them on their shelves.
I find that 99% of the people bellyaching about the Mac having "too poor of video and too few options" to be usable as a gaming machine are just hung up on chasing the best performance, regardless of practicality. (EG. What good is being able to render a game at 240fps when the human eye can't even tell the difference between that and HALF as many frames or less? And what good is running a huge LCD at a really high resolution when it's been proven that for gaming, a 22" or smaller LCD is optimal anyway? Your eyes can't take in the whole scene at once, at a normal viewing distance from a monitor when the screen is larger than that.)
The only really legitimate reason a Mac hasn't been a "good gaming machine" so far is due to lack of interest in developing software titles for it. The ONLY way to ever turn that around is to support efforts like this one!
The free game is a lie!!
Oh wait it's already been done to death
Nice introduction to Mac gaming.
Oh wait it's already been done to death
Nice introduction to Mac gaming.
Too bad setting the game to 2560x1440 doesn't work. It looks like 1920x1080 scaled up. The HUD is the right resolution, but everything else is all jaggy. I took a screenshot and for every 15 pixels I counted 13 jaggies. This is like playing Portal on Xbox360. It's not sharp. It doesn't look good.
DL Portal at 1.1MB right now....
Few things to ponder:
1.Do I delete my bootcampd W7 because CS 1.6 won't be ported over to S4M?
2.How is OSX side handling Portal compared to Windows
3.Magic Mouse compatible? or do I bust out my Logitech?
4.I know Portal is great but if I can't get CS 1.6 then I'm going to have to remove S4M. CS:S is great and all but really 1.6 is the lick.
5.As great as having Steam for Mac is my MBP will most likely not be able to handle newer games. ie. I played B2BC on my W7 side and boy did it suck. Unless you have a better video card than the 9400M unfortunately lower end(I can't believe I'm saying this about my MBP) Mac's are SOL!!!
Crucify me now
Few things to ponder:
1.Do I delete my bootcampd W7 because CS 1.6 won't be ported over to S4M?
2.How is OSX side handling Portal compared to Windows
3.Magic Mouse compatible? or do I bust out my Logitech?
4.I know Portal is great but if I can't get CS 1.6 then I'm going to have to remove S4M. CS:S is great and all but really 1.6 is the lick.
5.As great as having Steam for Mac is my MBP will most likely not be able to handle newer games. ie. I played B2BC on my W7 side and boy did it suck. Unless you have a better video card than the 9400M unfortunately lower end(I can't believe I'm saying this about my MBP) Mac's are SOL!!!
Crucify me now
Erm, no.
Well on Windows XP if you're in full screen, you're stuck in it until you quit the game. At least on both of my PCs it has always been like that!
I just VNC'd into my machine at home to kick off the download and man, its going quick. 2.6MB/s
Call me a debbie downer, but I'm not happy with the results.
On my Windows 7 Partition, I can achieve a steady 60 frames per second with native 1280x800 resolution and just about all details set on high. It runs great and the fps is hardly noticeable (which for me is rare on a pc game) and often runs higher than 60fps.
However, while running Portal on my mac partition with the EXACT same settings, and with the same computer (boot camp) hardware running, it hardly tops itself to its limited 30fps, and dips down to 15-18 while looking at any of the portals. (wow that was a really long run-on)
So overall I think I'll stick with my windows partition and keep re-installing that after it crashes.
On my Windows 7 Partition, I can achieve a steady 60 frames per second with native 1280x800 resolution and just about all details set on high. It runs great and the fps is hardly noticeable (which for me is rare on a pc game) and often runs higher than 60fps.
However, while running Portal on my mac partition with the EXACT same settings, and with the same computer (boot camp) hardware running, it hardly tops itself to its limited 30fps, and dips down to 15-18 while looking at any of the portals. (wow that was a really long run-on)
So overall I think I'll stick with my windows partition and keep re-installing that after it crashes.
Anyone play the games using a 9400M yet? Any first impressions? How about a 9400M hooked up to an HD monitor/TV? Im downloading my free copy of Portal, only 12 mins left!
Add me on Steam: chicken_man_supreme (don't ask about the name)
Add me on Steam: chicken_man_supreme (don't ask about the name
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Oh, WinXP. Why not WinME? Or Win98? Sheesh.
If you bash something, make sure you bash equal opponents. Otherwise it's just desperate trolling.
I was downloading and boom, connection dropped and now it says server busy and can even open the webpage. anyonelse?
Playing the Torchlight Demo on an old 2007 MBP 2.16Ghz Ati X1600. Smooth as a baby's..
Fun little game so far, I think I'll buy it and play it this weekend. Portal hasn't finished d/l yet. But so far I'm very impressed with the job the devs done with Torchlight, too early for me to say but it's possibly very well optimised.
Fun little game so far, I think I'll buy it and play it this weekend. Portal hasn't finished d/l yet. But so far I'm very impressed with the job the devs done with Torchlight, too early for me to say but it's possibly very well optimised.
For all those who are testing it would be interesting if you could post what FPS you are getting. In Advanced Keyboard options there should be a setting to enable console. Go back into the game, press the tilda key and type net_graph 1 to bring up your FPS and some other stats.
I think I may be eating your bandwidth at the moment downloaders. BC2 coming down at around 1MB/s. Yes that's a capital B.
I think I may be eating your bandwidth at the moment downloaders. BC2 coming down at around 1MB/s. Yes that's a capital B.
