Playing PC games on Mac

I tried playing defcon on xp through vmware

no dice

Just the regular Macbook or the MBP? You should check the video requirements of the Orange Box and see how well the Macbook can emulate it-- I don't think it has any dedicated video memory, which might be a problem. The MPB runs that stuff like butter, though.

^^^ integrated graphics are rubbish, you'd need at least an iMac to play any major 3d games

defcon works fine on my macbook as it's the mac version

It's a regular MacBook, but I have 2GB of RAM if that would help any. Am I screwed y/n?

I think you might be out of luck. There's got to be people trying on mac gaming forums, no?

Youtube seems to prove this is possible. I have asked for Orange box for Christmas. Good times. If that doesn't work, it's back to Grid Wars.

bass guitar through a guitar amp? and other questions from an ignorant beginner

haha!

was waiting for work think to finish off so I could upgrade to leopard and install windows at the same time, but that is still months off and I still haven't cracked the seal on the orange box so I have downloaded this and trying this tomorrow: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/

you get what I mean

i thing so :)

A Mac running bootcamp is just PC with the relevant hardware specs, there is nothing special or different about it.

However from the CX games site:

"Some low end Mac systems with built in Video chip sets may not be able to play high performance first person games at full frame rates."

Your non Pro MacBook probably will have this problem

integrated graphics is a real bind for this sort of thing :(

the iMac needs a spec bump too

it's going to work, guys. stop bringing me down.

hmm

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=418295

i hope that's not necessary with the crossover games thing. steam and half life 2 are officially supported by that.

I guess if you really need to.... you can pirate Windows XP and VMWare Fusion. Or you could pay for them, whatever.

I got drunk and did not get around to this today.

Actually I just tried running VMware Fusion with a Boot Camp partition - it runs surprisingly well for emulation (Unify mode is CREEPY!), but DirectX performance is complete ass. I'm guessing it might run better if it was a "pure image" but rebooting into Windows seems vastly better.

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/27/codeweavers-says-cheap-gas-free-software-tomorrow/

Crossover Mac available for free tomorrow! Worth giving a shot.

so I downloaded crossover; double clicked virtual silence... then nothing
: /

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4138303/steam%20osx%20goodies.png
:D

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/03/valve-teases-upcoming-half-life-release-for-mac/

B/w this and the Portal 2 / HL2 Ep3 stuff, Valve is really pushing it right now...

O_O guh

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1889/146840valvehalflife1984.jpg

what's the point tho? are there even any games on mac?

HL2: episode 3 mac exclusive wd be hilarious

bigger bump to stock price then the ipad

There's lots of indie games for Mac, even a ton that are sold on Steam already in their PC versions. In particular some PopCap stuff has been half the cost on Steam vs. their own website, and half the games in that indie pack on sale right now has Mac versions, I believe. Not mention some of the big publisher games like Dragon Age and Sims 3.

Even if they were just making those available w/the Steam client it would be a huge boost to the platform, but porting Source/Orange Box/L4D means they are doing SERIOUS BUSINESS now. We might actually get a simultaneous release for whatever the next Valve game is!

I would gladly play thru HL + HL2 again on mac

v. excited for gaming w/out having to restart into BC

i'd love to get the chance to play portal! excited about that! BUT --and tell me if i'm insane for this-- for some reason i feel very wary about steam/valve's community having an in into the mac world. i think it's gonna mean hacks and viruses and bad computer-nerdy things. i just checked out valve's forums; so many people there talking about shady mods and cheat things and other stuff i admit i don't really understand but to them it's just kinda second nature. like i said, maybe i'm just crazy-paranoid, but i think there's a very seedy aspect to that whole scene that macs have been totally apart from, and joining into that network seems like it may invite some bad schemes and the like. yes? no? this isn't really my thing, so it's just kind of a kneejerk reaction i guess. still, have been wanting portal pretty much since it came out, so hey what the hell

Don't worry about it - no one's ever gotten a virus through Steam, afaik. Some people do cheat, but Valve is generally proactive about fighting exploits, and at most it will ruin a multiplayer game for you once in a very rare while. (At least w/TF2, I don't know how bad CS or other games are) I'm pretty sure bringing in the Steam community will be much more of a plus than any possible negatives - their whole auto-patching/Friends/Groups/in-game chat/community system is just so far ahead of everybody else, since they've had many years to work on it.

If there wasn't the barrier of shutting down/restarting into XP I would get no work done.

After much speculation and some not-so-subtle hinting, Valve has officially announced a Mac version of popular gaming service Steam coming in April, and its bringing Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series with it.

John Cook, Director of Steam Development. "The inclusion of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a lot of flexibility in how we move these technologies forward. We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows."

Yay! I might even play portal for the first time.

multiplayer and mods are a huge reason why this is dope. also how often games get updated like TF2.

apple should advertise the hell out of this imo

future productivity: destroyed

* If players already own the PC versions of Valve games, they’ll get Mac versions at no extra charge through a feature called Steam Play.
* By using the Steam Cloud feature that the company introduced in 2008, players can save in-progress games online, then call up those saved games no matter which version they’re playing. If you’re playing Half-Life 2 on your home PC but then head out on the road with your MacBook, you can continue your game-in-progress.
(from http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/03/steam-mac/)

wow, they really are going the extra mile with this.

wow! It would be great if other developers would get in on the Mac versions at no extra charge thing, as I kinda hate going into Fusion/Boot Camp just to play Civ or Torchlight. I'm sure I'd buy more if it weren't as big of a hassle.

wow.... that is kinda incredible

Like i could be any more of a Valve fanboy at this point... Sounds they might be bringing the Steam Cloud/Achivements back into HL2 from the console versions, too. This is exactly what I wanted from Valve, not having to rebuy my games... phenomenal.