Re:MacBook Pro
by IntelMiner on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:42PM
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Gaming on Mac is rapidly approaching parity with Windows, ironically helped a lot by Linux and Valve
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Are there many more studios outside of Blizzard that are developing for OS X? I hadn't realized there were more devs working with it. Every other game I know of that has Mac support is usually running in some WINE equivalent which isn't great.
So we have Blizzard and Source engine, who am I missing?
Ahaha ahaha... No, no it's not. I can't imagine you play any 'serious' games. Hell, even WoW, a game which is well supported by the developer on OSX, plays like crap on my $2600 MVP.
Re:MacBook Pro
by IntelMiner on Friday October 28, 2016 @09:24AM
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Going by my recently played list on Steam
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998185123/games/?...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition: Win
Team Fortress 2: Win/Mac/Lin
Factorio: Win/Mac/Lin
Rocket League: Win/Mac/Lin
Particle Fleet: Emergence: Win/Mac/Lin
SHENZHEN I/O: Win/Mac/Linux
Oil Rush: Win/Mac/Linux
Castle Crashers: Win/Mac
Tropico 5: Win/Mac/Linux
Literally every game I've played recently except ONE supports Mac
Obviously I'm not a "serious" gamer :)
Well, I should have worded that better, shouldn't have been so dismissive. By 'serious' I meant 'resource intensive'. I don't know all of those games, bit the games I do know are definitely not very taxing on a GPU (aside from Skyrim, but what settings are yo uplaying it at? Does that seem worth it for the price tag?)
I don't think you'd argue that a mac is a good gaming rig from a performance / $ perspective (or any other perspective really).
CS GO worked good enough on Mac and Linux last time I checked