More Mac Steam Games

[May 19, 2010, 3:50 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Steam News has word that the launch of the Mac client for Steam continues with the release of another dozen games for the Mac audience, include the first three titles to support cross-platform play with Windows users, which are Killing Floor, Altitude, and Madballs in Babo: Invasion. Word is: "To celebrate the launch of these titles, Killing Floor will be offered at 33% off its regular price (for a limited time). An Altitude Free Weekend promotion is available now on Steam, and those who wish to purchase the game and play beyond the weekend may pick it up at 50% off its regular price. And Madballs in Babo: Invasion is also available at 50% off its regular price." This page offers the complete list of all the new Mac titles on Steam.

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Re: More Mac Steam Games

May 19, 2010, 19:14

SirKnight

I think it's great that the mac is finally being looked at more seriously as a target for games. While I have my issues with Apple and the way macs are not as customizable as a PC is, I like my mac mini. I would also not be opposed to buy another more powerful mac. I now hope that since gaming is becoming stronger on the mac that NVIDIA and AMD/ATI will start to devote more resources to their mac driver for games. Contrary to what the Apple haters say, the poor performance we're seeing with games on the mac through steam right now is NOT the hardware or the OS. Both of those are fine. The problem is the drivers and most have no idea how much effort and resources NVIDIA and AMD/ATI put into their GeForce or Radeon drivers for game performance. The truth is, the majority of the performance you see in games is because of the drivers doing smart things. It's actually more on the driver than the GPU. A good way to show this is to run a game on a GeForce, then run the game on a Quadro that uses the same GPU and you'll see a huge FPS difference (with the Quadro being the slowest, by a lot). This difference comes from how the drivers are written and optimized. The Quadro driver, like the mac driver, is not designed for games. I also look forward to Linux versions of STEAM and then of course, more game effort in the Linux drivers to follow. It would be great to switch over to using Linux and OSX most of the time and Windows only in occasional cases or for work.

		Date	Subject	Author
>>	1.	May 19, 19:14	Re: More Mac Steam Games	SirKnight
	2.	May 20, 00:38	Re: More Mac Steam Games	Kxmode
	3.	May 20, 02:32	Re: More Mac Steam Games	Reactor
	4.	May 20, 14:15	Re: More Mac Steam Games	ForgedReality
	5.	May 21, 02:12	Re: More Mac Steam Games	Reactor