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Roll on Counter Strike

Yep that will happen about the same time you get decent Direct3D support and OpenGL too. :p

Steam is available

I just downloaded it. Installing portal as we speak

Ah... Macs... bless their cotton socks!

Steam is available

I just downloaded it. Installing portal as we speak

No not steam being available, but your comments on CS and other games that require a lot of 3D power being available.

Also I may be missing something but last I looked the apple graphics cards, were not exactly at the top end of the range, and some seems to fall distinctly at the low to lower mid range performance.

The 512mb 9600M GT in my MBP is more than capable of handling Counter strike considering I used to play it on a 128mb graphics card in my old PC 7 year ago

I applaud Valve for this... especially the fact that pc and mac users can play the same games online together.. although the apple fanbois will get their ass's handed to them :p

How will Mac users put silencers on, or look through the scope?

No not steam being available, but your comments on CS and other games that require a lot of 3D power being available.

Also I may be missing something but last I looked the apple graphics cards, were not exactly at the top end of the range, and some seems to fall distinctly at the low to lower mid range performance.

I've been playing CS:Source on my iMac for the past couple of years through Steam on CrossOver, it's worked fine (save me having my ass handed to me by a 9 year old). Can't imagine native code being worse than the WINE environment?

I applaud Valve for this... especially the fact that pc and mac users can play the same games online together.. although the apple fanbois will get their ass's handed to them :p

Thats because us Apple Fanbois have real friends and lives not make believe one's online :p :p

The 512mb 9600M GT in my MBP is more than capable of handling Counter strike considering I used to play it on a 128mb graphics card in my old PC 7 year ago

I quake in fear at the old mid range graphics card and wonder how I may keep my frame rate up :p

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/geforce_family_uk.html

Edited 13 May, 201016 yr by cheezemonkhai

Frame rate isn't everything you know

Besides IF i had any problems i would just lower the settings requirement on the Graphics Options

I don't know of a Game that currently requires a minimum of more than 512mb (no doubt you will correct me if there is :p ) so i think im safe.

It's not as if im a Hardcore Gamer - i use my PS3 for that which can handle better graphics than any PC :p

If i was serious i would just get a new MBP with the GT330 chip in it. But then i suppose thats Sh!te aswell.

Clicky

It's not as if im a Hardcore Gamer - i use my PS3 for that which can handle better graphics than any PC :p

If i was serious i would just get a new MBP with the GT330 chip in it. But then i suppose thats Sh!te aswell.

Clicky

LOL

Ps3 better than a pc for gfx. since when ???? A badboy gfx card will cost double a ps3

Get on MW2 and I'll shoot you in the face repeatedly lol

Lies ...... Frame Rate is life

Apple fanboys have no friends apart from the other toads on Mobile&me

Even the 27" IMac I have at home only features a Radeon HD4850 as the best card they have on offer, and is unable to run a decent game such as Batman Forever, or MW2 on it's native resolution when bootcamped at anything over medium settings. Crysis would judder even at low detail settings on it, which is why I use the iMac for photo / video editing only and all gaming is done via the Windows 7 box with the iMac as the display.

Don't get me wrong, Steam coming to OSX is a good thing indeed, but looking through the games list, it's really a weak and poor effort IMHO. Macs are OK, in fact they are great as a general porpoise home computer, great at photo and video work but DIRE gaming machines.

Just because the Card costs more than the PS3 doesn't mean it's graphics are better.

MW2 plays in Full HD on a PS3. Show me a laptop that can do that.

Well i haven't had any problems playing my games through boot camp

This includes Half Life 2 at Full detail settings and i haven't a clue what the frame rate is but there is no judder at all

Half life 2 is old as dirt it ran well on my 9800 pro which is as old as the hills I've had three cards since then

Laptop arn't really designed for gaming unless you spend 2k plus.

I got a ps3 and a pc, the ps3 is just sat waiting for gt5 other than that its pretty ****e compared to the pc for games tbh

If it works cross platform add me on steam as fatty5000 watch out though as when I'm in the zone (not often lol) I'm a stone cold killer.

59 kills in a round the other night !!!!

You can join me and fluff for a friday night fight lol

Thanks for the invite and im winding you all up really.

I know that a Mac or PS3 could never compete against a PC for Gaming. Especially with Anti-Aliasing, Ansiotropic Filtering etc etc.

But for me as the occasional gamer then it will all work just fine on medium settings for me.

I don't play MW2 or any of these so called "realistic" FPS i just pick faults with it. So thanks for the invite but you would probably kill me every time. I used to get my arse handed to me by 9 year old kids in Taiwan on Counter Strike so i doubt MW2 will be any different

Just because the Card costs more than the PS3 doesn't mean it's graphics are better.

MW2 plays in Full HD on a PS3. Show me a laptop that can do that.

Oh yes it does.... The eggbox360 has more graphical horsepower than the ps3 and the chipset in the xbox is 5 "generations" old in pc gfx terms.

And youll find that no game on PS3 is full HD... 720p or less and scaled up (like the xbox)

Erm have a look at the Back of COD MW, MW2 & Assassins Creed 2

I think you will find they are 720p, 1080i & 1080p capable :p :p :p

Plus the EggBox can't display 1080p

Edited 13 May, 201016 yr by vRSCarl

Erm have a look at the Back of COD MW & MW2

I think you will find they are 720p, 1080i & 1080p capable :p :p :p

Plus the EggBox can't display 1080p

Lies all lies... i have a eggbox which the telly shows as 1080p when its powered up.. and i can download and watch films in 1080p too..

have a look over on digitalfoundry. especially at some of the showdowns... the xbox wins 90% of them

games will output to the tv at 1080p - both consoles have a hardware upscalers. but the graphics are usually rendered at 720p - again read digitalfoundry which goes into lots of detail about this

Maybe so for the majority

But MW, MW2 & AC2 all clearly state on the Back 1080p

All the other games i have say 720p

Anyways.. back on topic!

Steam + associated valve games is a definate good thing for the mac as a platform.. the source engine used by CS/TF2 HL2 etc is very scaleable so will run just as well on crap hardware, and silly fps on good hardware.. which is a moot point anyway being LCD screens are still limited to 60fps

Im also impressed how if you have the games for PC, you dont have to re-purchase for the mac.

Yup the Free game transfer thing was one of the things i was attracted by

To be honest i don't really game that much. Especially not FPS as they normally bug me for claiming to be realistic when not. CS was good because it never claimed to be.

I prefer stuff like Age of Empires, Civilization (looking forwards to Civ V) etc

Oh and just to clarify :p :p

Assassins Creed II Case

COD 4 MW Case

Good thing is Rumour has it that Apple are about to move away from Intel due to Intel & NVidia having a legal dispute. This could then pave the way for better GPU's

All upscaled iirc

GT5 prologue is the only game in full HD iirc. Well it was the last time I paid any attention lol