It could probably run it. HL2 was released in 2004 and even back then I was playing it on my ancient laptop on medium settings (forgot the graphics card, but it was low-end).
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It could probably run it. HL2 was released in 2004 and even back then I was playing it on my ancient laptop on medium settings (forgot the graphics card, but it was low-end).
I played the original HL2 on a ThinkPad T43 with a 1.8ghz Centrino, 1gb of ram, and a GMA 900. You should be fine.
I think that they should support it steam logins. With the content delivery system that Steam has I think it would be a good idea for them to allow Windows accounts to play on Macs. My fingers are crossed!!!! I haven't played any of my Steam games in about 2 years and this could get me to change my mind.
We just got what is presumably the final image at Macworld. Mail caught Valve's message in spam so I didn't see it for an hour or two.
http://www.macworld.com/article/146840/2010/03/valve_mac.html
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OH GOD. ITS AWESOME. OH MY GOD. THE EXCITEMENT AHGGHHHHHH.
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Valve games are the Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin and The Doors of gaming. It doesn't matter how old they are, they still rock, and they are the best there ever was and will me.
'nuff said.
This news would go nicely with a MBP refresh with beefier graphics cards
Yes! YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!
Eh, did you miss the L4D picture? That was released in 2008, and if they're porting L4D2 that came out in October (or was it November).
We just got what is presumably the final image at Macworld. Mail caught Valve's message in spam so I didn't see it for an hour or two.
http://www.macworld.com/article/146840/2010/03/valve_mac.html
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Full-size version please!
Why would you want Crossover Games to be integrated? Just to play non Steam Engine games?
I find this to be a less likely solution, but would still be cool.
That's one of the nice things about all these games running off the same engine... They basically can port a major game library over with "little" effort. Not really, little, but much less than if they were all independent.
Really...? Well, that would be really frickin' awesome. Maybe I should just pick up a copy of XP and hit it up on Bootcamp, which seems to be faster than OS X in most gaming instances.
Proper focus on Mac Gaming?
I wonder if after a long hiatus, the post count in the gaming section will be re-enabled for us regulars now there's a little more emphasis and gaming is making page 1 macrumors news
I wonder if after a long hiatus, the post count in the gaming section will be re-enabled for us regulars now there's a little more emphasis and gaming is making page 1 macrumors news
I don't know if that's going to be worth while...
I used to play HL2 when I first got it on my GeForce TI 4200.
It'll likely play on most Intel Macs.Another thing is that I would expect more Mac apps that allow control over videocard clockspeed to be coming out after this.
There is no real reason why games should run faster in Windows other than maybe Apple has the graphics card underclocked for battery saving reasons. If this is the case maybe we'll see some tools to... remedy... the situation. I'm pretty excited for this! Fingers crossed that my Windows account works!!!
