TF2 on Steam Mac not on par with Bootcamp...

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  1. jon08, Sep 26, 2010

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    Has anyone played Team Fortress 2 on Steam for Mac? I just installed it today on my MBP (config is in my siggy), but I'm pretty disappointed because it's obviously not as smooth and fast as in my Bootcamp.

    I turned most of my settings to at least Med (and some to Low), turned off Antialiasing, but kept resolution of 1440x900, yet it's still laggy/choppy esp. when there's more people involved... (it was fine in Bootcamp on even better settings).

    I get like 20-25 fps in OS X, which pretty much sucks.... Anyone else experiencing this?
     
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  2. Hellhammer, Sep 26, 2010

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    It's normal. I don't have any personal experience with TF2 but what I've heard, games run much better under Windows because that's their #1 developing platform and drivers are also better.
     
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  3. odinsride, Sep 26, 2010

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    This is what happens when games are written for DirectX and then ported to use OpenGL after the fact. Nothing you can do about it.
     
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