Steam IS coming to OS X

Mullins · 12 May 2010 at 20:11

It is available from the steam home page now.

Feek · 12 May 2010 at 20:14

I blatted my install, reinstalled and it updated, no errors this time. Now it's downloading Portal while I watch The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in HD.

pingwing · 12 May 2010 at 20:14

THE BEST DAY!!!! (mk2)

The store is all up for me (just reopened steam) and im trying pretty hard to resist getting civ4 for the 3rd time

(mac version has always been annoying to get hold of)

Draeconis · 12 May 2010 at 20:17

They've got a 'Steam for Mac' area on the Forums too, frankly, I'm registering just to say thanks. This day has been a long time coming!

Irish_Tom · 12 May 2010 at 20:18

Nope, still not working.

Going to repair permissions etc and hope that fixes it.

Pav89 · 12 May 2010 at 20:21

Aww, gutted that CS isn't gonna be for a while though

xJcBx · 12 May 2010 at 20:36

YEY

Downloading Portal now, shame CSS isn't here yet, but its better than nothing

hendrix · 12 May 2010 at 20:37

Dammit, i'm stuck at work and so can't actually connect to the steam network... Home time I think!!!

Blackhawk47 · 12 May 2010 at 20:52

Just downloaded and now its downloading an update.

Should be interesting to see how it runs on my iMac compared to my PC.

FreeStream · 12 May 2010 at 20:56

Downloading Portal as we speak

Wonder how well my 4870 will cope, seeing as its basically the best GPU you can get for the MP (Bar 285)

Feek · 12 May 2010 at 20:56

OK then, how am I going to do this on my Mac Mini with multiple user accounts?

I don't want to have three separate folders with the downloads in, all the users share the same Steam account but if the game cache is stored in the documents folder then it's going to be a problem. I need to change the default cache folder to a shared directory. Somehow.

randal · 12 May 2010 at 21:07

Symlinks?

Pav89 · 12 May 2010 at 21:14

Feek said:
OK then, how am I going to do this on my Mac Mini with multiple user accounts?

I don't want to have three separate folders with the downloads in, all the users share the same Steam account but if the game cache is stored in the documents folder then it's going to be a problem. I need to change the default cache folder to a shared directory. Somehow.

I read somewhere on that huge thread on the mac forums someone has managed to overcome this problem and has provided the solution. Not sure where it's buried now though.

n111ck · 12 May 2010 at 21:16

It's annoying that you can't be downloading on the Mac and playing on the pc.

Feek · 12 May 2010 at 21:30

randal24 said:
Symlinks?

That's what I'm thinking, I'll have a play.

Mullins · 12 May 2010 at 21:50

Has anyone managed to download Civ IV? It shows as a steam play title in the store, but won't let me download it on my mac.

NickK · 12 May 2010 at 21:57

Friends queried buying a 2.66 Mac Mini over a Revo.. it's now become my media centre, music centre, games console and climateprediction cruncher

NickK · 12 May 2010 at 21:58

Mullins said:
Has anyone managed to download Civ IV? It shows as a steam play title in the store, but won't let me download it on my mac.

Not all titles are Mac. There's a little setting to filter mac supported games.

Mullins · 12 May 2010 at 22:03

NickK said:
Not all titles are Mac. There's a little setting to filter mac supported games.

I realise this but in the store it has the apple logo along with the windows logo, and the steam play logo. When I filter my games library to show only the Mac compatible games it doesn't appear.

I'm hoping it is just because it is yet to be released for download.

Logsi · 12 May 2010 at 23:50

Does anyone else have Team Fortress 2 missing on their games list even though it should be there?