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Valve Announces May 12th Debut for Steam on Mac OS X
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I wonder if I will have to get a new mouse to support some games. I tend to use the 4th mouse button as reload and light/night vision uses the 5th button. The middle mouse button also scrolls through my weapons and clicking the middle mouse button jumps, although I can use space bar for that. I currently use the Magic Mouse and it doesn't have those buttons.
Does anyone know if Left 4 Dead 2 will be available at launch? I don't want May 12th to come only to find out that Portal is the only game available while the rest are coming "in time". That would be a mega bummer.
I hope to see Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 on launch.
If not, no big deal, I have a PS3 to hold me over. Plus, there's a ton of great games coming out next month. Skate 3 and Red Dead Redemption. I'm soooo excited!
I hope to see Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 on launch.
If not, no big deal, I have a PS3 to hold me over. Plus, there's a ton of great games coming out next month. Skate 3 and Red Dead Redemption. I'm soooo excited!
It should have been a bit more obvious back then given the 192-bit memory interface vs. 512 MB of RAM.
That's quite a feat, outplaying nVidia at their own game.
I don't pay much attention to the specific details of the hardware scene anymore.
All I care now is that the new II X6es give Intel some real competition and that they have one hell of a good GPU/CPU/MB solution right now. Oh, that Fermi was a a 2900XTX all over again.
It's not all about drivers either. The company who ports the game can also do a bad job at it. I doubt it's easy to port DirectX stuff over to OpenGL without issues. Everyone knows that ported games usually run worse than the native ones. Just look at XBox 360 ports on the PS3. The PS3 is almost always worse. Lately though, there have been developers who are developing on the PS3 first and then porting it over to XBox.
It sounds to me like you think that all of a sudden every game that will be released on steam will be available for Mac as well. You couldn't be more wrong there!
There are almost a 1000 games on Steam and at launch only 5 games from Valve will be available for Mac.
And so far only games developed by Valve will be available for Mac and PC at the same time for no extra cost. I am sure other Publisher will release Mac versions as well, but something tells me most of them will either release their Mac version 6 months after the PC version and will probably charge extra for the Mac version, unlike Valve.
And to think it's laziness of the Dev's to port it to Mac? Wow... think again. That's something that the Publisher decides anyways and most Publishers just want to see money and by porting old games that no one plays anymore they won't make much money, not to mention the costs and time it would take to port the whole game to Mac. They'll probably end up losing money.
Cause that sooo knocks the socks off my 9800M GTS
I'm glad you guys are getting Steam and I hope that more of the library opens up to you guys soon. Hope to see you guys online.
I wish for Modern Warfare II, but the sad thing is that it isn't based on the Source engine, creating difficulties. Hopefully it will be ported though.
That would imply Activision cares. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of the game, but their track record for giving fans what they want and patching major issues isn't all that great.
The hardware scene is just a hobby of mine. Sports statistics would be a good comparison.
It's based on a modified Quake engine which is relatively easy to port because the Quake engine was designed as cross platform. The previous CoD was ported, beats me why they haven't ported the newest one.
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Well, good. But don't expect many games like windows version. I think that it is enough for mac users anyway.
Well, good. But don't expect many games like windows version. I think that it is enough for mac users anyway.
So Steam Source based games are the ONLY games you ever play?
I really think some of you have a tendency for exaggeration. This is one step in the right direction and no thanks to Mr. Jobs.
