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It's not been released today. Wait till next Wednesday, or the Wednesday after that.
Steam IS coming to OS X
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It's not been released today. Wait till next Wednesday, or the Wednesday after that.
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Performance of Portal is pretty poor if im honest.
HD4870 512Mb and it can just about do 4xAA, Windows version I could be doing 8x AA no problems! Solid 60FPS in HL2.
Needs some more work.
And @ Feek, i'd like to know this too, I want to move it to my boot disk, not my documents disk, I don't quite see why I'd want an app in my documents folder. :/
HD4870 512Mb and it can just about do 4xAA, Windows version I could be doing 8x AA no problems! Solid 60FPS in HL2.
Needs some more work.
And @ Feek, i'd like to know this too, I want to move it to my boot disk, not my documents disk, I don't quite see why I'd want an app in my documents folder. :/
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Quite impressed with the performance, was expecting worse. Quite bugging and unresponsive at times though.
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yes its missing for me as well, even though all my other games are on the list
whats with the face palm
l4D has not been released yet but is still on the list as well as all the other games you can still bring up the details of them just not download them in your library 
TF2 does still appear on your accounts page though
...I know that...
So are you saying that all the games i have in my list are mac games?
If you read my question i was asking if anybody has Team Fortress 2 but it's not showing in their games list on steam...There is going to be HL2 and CS:S so why are they in my list?
Thanks for the answer Steveo, glad i'm not the only one. If i log into the web steam then go to games it is there.
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no worrys Logsi 
Unfortunately, OpenGL 3 simply can't compete with latest versions of DirectX. The Mac versions of games will never perform as well as their PC counterparts and there's not much that Valve can do.
There's a noticeable difference in performance between Mac Portal and Windows Portal, the Mac being the slower of the two. Work is definitely required on the OS X Source implementation. Definitely a step in the right direction, but expected more from a 9600 at 1440x900.
I can't close my Steam client without it hanging with a spinning wheel, I have to force close which generates a program error.
All in all I can't help but feel the release, although progress was a bit of an anti-climax. I'd hoped to be able to play online, Portal is a good game but it's a bit dull once you've been through it twice. All this smacks of a rushed release on an aggressive deadline, further underlined by the staggered release of games every Wednesday to buy the testers/developers more time.
Just buy Torchlight, the game runs superb!
The performance for me is fine. I'm running the 9600 at 1680x1050 and it runs fine. It saves me from having a stupid windows partition installed and also means i'll end up playing the games more. I've played WoW a lot solely because it's on the mac side.
One gripe i have so far is that the actual steam application seems a bit bloated on the mac.
The performance for me is fine. I'm running the 9600 at 1680x1050 and it runs fine. It saves me from having a stupid windows partition installed and also means i'll end up playing the games more. I've played WoW a lot solely because it's on the mac side.
One gripe i have so far is that the actual steam application seems a bit bloated on the mac.
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I can't close my Steam client without it hanging with a spinning wheel, I have to force close which generates a program error.
Ruh roh! I may avoid this for a week if this is the general experience.
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In that case then someone, somewhere needs to get their backsides in gear.
Apple could and should push things along...
There's a noticeable difference in performance between Mac Portal and Windows Portal, the Mac being the slower of the two. Work is definitely required on the OS X Source implementation. Definitely a step in the right direction, but expected more from a 9600 at 1440x900.
I can't close my Steam client without it hanging with a spinning wheel, I have to force close which generates a program error.
All in all I can't help but feel the release, although progress was a bit of an anti-climax. I'd hoped to be able to play online, Portal is a good game but it's a bit dull once you've been through it twice. All this smacks of a rushed release on an aggressive deadline, further underlined by the staggered release of games every Wednesday to buy the testers/developers more time.
According to a recent Phoronix Review of the performance across Win7 Ubuntu 10.04 and OS X 10.6.3, the issue might actually be Apple/Hardware Vendors fault, for not writing good enough graphics drivers.
It's a little disappointing I guess, but it's native games on OS X; the overall experience might not be exactly the same as Windows, but that doesn't matter to me so much right now, I'm sure it'll improve as Valve / Apple / Nvidia / ATI work on it, as I'm sure now they have a good reason to!
Steam is running fine here. Got Portal installed and running, but don't have the time to play about right now.
I reckon 10.6.4, and it's purported graphics driver improvements will help us no end here. Judging by recent reports, it looks like this update is imminent too.
It's not too bad on the whole, but I'd definitely expect a couple of client updates over the next few days.
Soldato
portal running nice on my imac i get the odd lag glitch but its not to bad at 1900x1200
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currently downloading portal, cant wait 