Portal "One-Fifth As Likely to Crash on a Mac" as on PC

[ark123]

0/5=0
So this actually is no news

 

[feather240]

Valve has released another set of new games for the Mac including Killing Floor,>

Oh snap!

Now I can play with Furburt!

Yes.

Yes you can.

I call Sharpshooter! You can play with Lewis too, he just got it.

T'will be glorious.

OP: Well, as a user and lover of both platforms, yes, the mac does crash less. I've had about 3 crashes on my PC this week, but my mac hasn't crashed for 2 months.

Still, crashes are a minor thing really, what really matters is overall performance. From playing the game on PC and Mac, of roughly the same specs, it's close enough to identical.

It's nice to see equality between the platforms. Now, if we can get some decent customization for mac, and some decent default programs for windows, it will all be good.

Aaaaaand, cue more anti-mac prejudice!

...and I just deleted the game and did't even know anyone on the Escapist who has it.

...

Shit

 

[ShadowDude112]

A steam game has never crashed on me and I use a PC. I think Valve is just marketing their Mac version of Steam.

 

[solidstatemind]

When the hardware is more homogenous, yes, you will see less crashes running the same software. Big surprise.

Not saying that Macs are bad or anything, just that this falls pretty solidly in the "No Shit, Sherlock" department.

 

[Zarthek]

Portal doesn't crash for me because it refuses to start up /cry.
Apparently the steam servers are too busy to handle my request... HOWEVER, Torchlight and any other game I have work perfectly.

 

[Catalyst6]

Try running Crysis, then we'll see how often you crash .

 

[Sh0ckFyre]

Now all they need is for the Source engine entirely to not blue-screen my MORE THAN WORTHY laptop and I'll redeem my faith in Valve.

 

[Daveman]

So that one game that's worth playing crashes less... oh deary me.

I love portal and all but there's no way I'm getting a mac until there are the same number of games for it or their prices come down... A LOT.

 

[drisky]

Portal crashed on my mac, so this doesn't surprise me.

 

[ninjajoeman]

Killing Floor is an odd choice for what is basically a launch line-up, I'd have assumed they'd go with Team Fortress 2.

dont say that or else free tf2 rears its ugly head... just think free weekenders forever...

 

[spinFX]

Uhh Portal has never crashed on me... Whatever.

 

[Flying-Emu]

What's one-fifth of nothing?

My thoughts exactly...

Give me this statistic for TF2, however, and I'll go out and buy a fuckin' Macbook Pro on the spot.

 

[samsonguy920]

Lucky Mac owners I guess. Less crashing is always a good thing. I wonder why it crashes less though.

Probably because Macs are propietary, sticking with streamlined systems; while PC's are a hodgepodge of different cards and systems. A Nvidia graphics card may have certain issues on an AMD board, and such.
What makes me happy is there is cross-platform support, so you can finally prove to Ed who goes to the Apple store every day that he can "suck it" on Killing Floor or Madballs.
It will be chaos incarnate when Team Fortress 2 comes out for the Mac. There will be blood! And sentries, and spies in the red base. Or would that be iSpies in the red base?

 

[pwnzerstick]

I still dont get how you play portal on a mouse with one button

 

[blankedboy]

DORALINGUS, THIS IS BULLSHIT!

Because it is... sunami is right, too.

And sentries, and spies in the red base. Or would that be iSpies in the red base?

I think it'd be iSpies iIn iThe iRed iBase.
iStopMotion was bad enough, now Apple seems to be beating a dead horse.

 

[Hashime]

That is a likely number. I hate apple and all of it's products but it does have one advantage over the average windows/Linux user (not "PC" user as all computers are "Personal Computers" if you own them) the Nazi like control makes the platform very uniform and easy to predict. The lack of hardware variety makes programming out certain instances caused by hardware interactions easy. Mind you it also forces the consumer to use only apple distributed parts with jacked prices, and pay for service to perform even basic tasks.

 

[Hashime]

So that one game that's worth playing crashes less... oh deary me.

I love portal and all but there's no way I'm getting a mac until there are the same number of games for it or their prices come down... A LOT.

Ha, like that will EVER happen! As long as they can suck ridiculous amounts of money out of the less intelligent ones around us they will.

EDIT: Whoops, double post.

 

[Credge]

If you said TF2 or L4D crashed 1/5th less I'd totally be saying yay.

Seeing as I've never had Portal crash, well, kay.

Edit: This isn't something they should be bragging about.