Mac Gears of War

[Jul 18, 2007, 9:23 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Inside Mac Games reports that Epic has revealed plans for a Mac edition of Gears of War (thanks Ant and Digg), quoting Mark Rein in a Gametrailers Video as saying: "And don't forget, we're also doing Macintosh. Yes, Gears is coming to the Mac and so is UT."

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Re: I wonder...

Jul 19, 2007, 10:52

kanniballl

Macbook Pro's have dual core intels, 2GB RAM, and GF8600M (between 7600gt and 7900gs performance wise).

Yeh, I picked one up last month. My PC was dead and I was so tired if trying to figure out what was wrong with it, so I decided to just get a new one and felt like getting Laptop this time around. Eventually I'll try reviving the busted PC or just give the working parts to my brother.

My PC's video card was fried and the PCI Express port on my motherboard was dead. Either the motherboard was defective and fried the VC, the video card was defective and fried the MB, the power supply fried them both, or a surge went through the monitor and fried them both.

The MacBook Pro is a decent machine. 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of Ram, GeForce 8600M w/ 256MB. I threw Windows XP on a 20GB partition just for a handful of games, and so far Half-Life 2 runs great. I'll probably try more later on. But I'm just about done w/ gaming on my computer anyway. The only thing on the horizon I need is StarCraft 2, the rest can go on my Wii or 360.

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Re: No subject

Jul 19, 2007, 10:00

sponge

As opposed to the laser-like precision of the "Mac vs. PC" ads. Yea you show that faceless marketing agency by... posting things on a forum! DOWN WITH THE MAN.

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Re: No subject

Jul 19, 2007, 09:51

Pundit Guy

wow this thread is full so many generalizations As opposed to the laser-like precision of the "Mac vs. PC" ads.

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Re: fast cpu paired with slow gpu

Jul 19, 2007, 09:42

MeatForce

apple should stop the practice of having a custom rom chip on their video cards. that is the biggest setback for mac gaming. people want to be able to upgrade their video card for gaming.

Totally agree. They seem to have cleared out their inventory of x1900s though (showing 7-10 weeks for delivery now vs. 1-2 days previously), so I suspect we'll see a refresh of the Mac Pros pretty soon with 8000-series nVidias in them.

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Re: No subject

Jul 19, 2007, 08:00

Burrito of Peace

You kids do realize that the XBox 360 runs on PowerPC architecture, don't you? Sort of. It runs on custom designed silicon based off the principles of the PowerPC architecture. It is not, however, a direct descendant of PPC.

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fast cpu paired with slow gpu

Jul 19, 2007, 07:00

zirik

apple should stop the practice of having a custom rom chip on their video cards. that is the biggest setback for mac gaming. people want to be able to upgrade their video card for gaming.

Re: No subject

Jul 19, 2007, 04:42

AcidDrone

wow this thread is full so many generalizations that I have nothing more to say..

Re: No subject

Jul 19, 2007, 02:07

Gandhi

You kids do realize that the XBox 360 runs on PowerPC architecture, don't you? The same PowerPC chips that Macs sported before the Intel switch.

ironic isn't it?




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Re: No subject

Jul 19, 2007, 01:53

The Half Elf

If it won't run on an iphone then they don't want it And since it's XP and Vista why would you get the Vista version? It's gonna run worse and you won't see any noticeable gain in performance.

Re: I wonder...

Jul 19, 2007, 01:22

PHJF

Macbook Pro's have dual core intels, 2GB RAM, and GF8600M (between 7600gt and 7900gs performance wise).

Mac Pro's can have two quad core processors and Radeon x1900. Something tells me Gears will run on Apple's.

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I wonder...

Jul 19, 2007, 00:12

MattyC

what Mac can run Gears? Even if you have say... a nice power mac you still probably have a craptastic GeForce 7300. I don't see that running Gears... at least not while having it look anything like the 360 version.

Re: No subject

Jul 18, 2007, 23:59

Howin

I am interested in this version, to compare it to the Direct X 10 PC version. Unless its some perverted hybrid port it should be using OpenGL to render.

No subject

Jul 18, 2007, 23:34

Pundit Guy

I predict this will sell out all 20 copies that they end up shipping.

Re: mac version will be better in every

Jul 18, 2007, 22:32

VoodooV

I'm sorry, I can't play the mac version of Gears of War, I'm too busy being an elitist asshole and making lame analogies equating PCs to John Hodgeman. I keed, I keed

mac version will be better in every way

Jul 18, 2007, 22:01

space captain

would you like some gears of war with your venti half-caff caramel mochacino?

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