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Not yet, but Valve's going to keep expanding the available library of titles for Mac. Starting, with doing full conversions of all Valve games.samster284 said:
Still, Oranger, this is probably your best starting point. You'll find more Mac games on Steam then you'll find in any other single place. (save the Mac app store, which is flooded with useless crap)
I've owned nothing but Macs, and the first thing I do is shitcan the mouse they bundle and buy a proper multi-button device.
God knows why the company with arguably the best interface designers in the world are so clueless about the single most important interface device.
Also, Macs can play any game now, via Bootcamp and any Windows OS of your choosing. I'm running XP on my iMac right now and have STALKER, Oblivion, Deus Ex, Fallout 2, etd all installed and running great. When Windows inevitably shits the bed, which it will, I can use my rock-solid Mac OS to fix it up.
God knows why the company with arguably the best interface designers in the world are so clueless about the single most important interface device.
Also, Macs can play any game now, via Bootcamp and any Windows OS of your choosing. I'm running XP on my iMac right now and have STALKER, Oblivion, Deus Ex, Fallout 2, etd all installed and running great. When Windows inevitably shits the bed, which it will, I can use my rock-solid Mac OS to fix it up.
My Mac zealot days are far behind me. I still think 10.5 is far and away the best operating system ever made, but I also really like XP and PC games, so there ya go.
Seeing as I only have a 128MB gfx card, most new games won't run, so I stick to older PC games I never got to experience. I have been thinking about installing Win 7, but I doubt it would do anything that XP doesn't already do.
Seeing as I only have a 128MB gfx card, most new games won't run, so I stick to older PC games I never got to experience. I have been thinking about installing Win 7, but I doubt it would do anything that XP doesn't already do.
What's your Mac? Post some specs.
Bootcamp couldn't be easier to set up. Depending on your machine specs I'd install XP SP2 or Win 7.
Bootcamp couldn't be easier to set up. Depending on your machine specs I'd install XP SP2 or Win 7.
Yeah, stick with XP. If you had a new i7 Mac with 8gigs of RAM then it'd be time for Win 7.
Stay away from the SP3 update, no idea why but it completely borks up some games.
Unfortunately your Mini isn't going to play games like STALKER and Oblivion at anything but bare minimum specs. Games from the HL2 era should run fine, though Valves engine is a pretty slick optimized beast anyways.
If you have any trouble with overheating, or devices not working properly (like the Mac keyboard) send me a PM and I'll walk you through getting eveything set up.
Stay away from the SP3 update, no idea why but it completely borks up some games.
Unfortunately your Mini isn't going to play games like STALKER and Oblivion at anything but bare minimum specs. Games from the HL2 era should run fine, though Valves engine is a pretty slick optimized beast anyways.
If you have any trouble with overheating, or devices not working properly (like the Mac keyboard) send me a PM and I'll walk you through getting eveything set up.
There are a lot of fan-made patches that allow SS2 to run fine, otherwise it simply hates newer machines. That game is goddamn awesome though.
At any rate, if a game doesn't like Dual Cores (like Painkiller) just boot up game, Cntrl+Alt+Delete, navigate to the game process, right-click (or control click)and then select set affinity. You can then set the program to use only one core.
At any rate, if a game doesn't like Dual Cores (like Painkiller) just boot up game, Cntrl+Alt+Delete, navigate to the game process, right-click (or control click)and then select set affinity. You can then set the program to use only one core.