Can i play games in osx?

[roughlad]

looking into gettin mac os x or linux and wondering if my games will still play in them? css cod2 bf2142 company of heros and the such.

 

[PardonTheWait]

A lot of the more popular games come out for OSX, but to play games at any sort of good framerate, only the more expensive machines will really handle it, like the bigger iMacs and the Mac Pros.

If you're really into your games, running a mac as your only machine isn't a great idea.

 

[Will_3rd]

as for Linux, CS:S should work using Cedega along with other Source games, id software have also released their games for Linux, titles include Quake and Doom.

 

[Atari]

World Of Warcraft works quite well, I've been playing it on my MacBook for a few months now.

 

[tsinc80697]

World Of Warcraft works quite well, I've been playing it on my MacBook for a few months now.

its not a game, its a lifestyle

that evil game! blatently made by the people of Pringles, once you pop you jsut cant stop

 

[Atari]

its not a game, its a lifestyle

that evil game! blatently made by the people of Pringles, once you pop you jsut cant stop

Very true, but it wastes a few hours here and there

 

[mortals]

OS X Games

The games I play on OS X are: Darwinia & Warcraft3

I wanted to play my pc games I own on mac but it seems all of them but WoW and Warcraft3 require you to purchase them again as mac versions (I did try cs:s on crossover but it was a bit slow)

I cancelled my WoW account a few months after it was released as it took up way too much time so have never tried it on OS X.

 

[Atari]

OT: Is there any way that I can do something like an alt-tab on OS X when I'm in a game?

It's annoying having to exit WoW every time I want to check something on the internet

 

[Will_3rd]

OT: Is there any way that I can do something like an alt-tab on OS X when I'm in a game?

It's annoying having to exit WoW every time I want to check something on the internet

Press F11 to move the current window out of the way, do it all the time when I play Football Manager 2005/07

 

[Atari]

F11 didn't seem to work

Any other ideas?

 

[Rooky007]

Yes

Apple Button and tab

 

[Beepcake]

WoW blocks all of the default OS X keys as far as I know. You might be able to use the windowed/full screen mode toggle keys in game as a workaround.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Does Cmd-Option-Esc work? That's the shortcut to bring up the list of running tasks so that you might kill frozen ones.

 

[bigredshark]

I have COD2 for my macbook pro, works pretty good, I even get the odd kill online...