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[Omeyocan]

I have a MacBook Pro 15" 2010 with i7 at 2.66Ghz, GeForce GT330 M with 512Meg.
OS: 10.6.4


Where's Left for Dead 2 ? Wasn't supposed to be released in april of this year on steam ?

 

[LCGeek]

Look, if you wanna be a CS fan then you at least have to swear by 1.6.

Original betas anything else just delusional blasphemy. I like valve but while they did good things for the game some of the changes have been the most controversial to original intent of what one of the designers made clear.

At least the person didn't mention condition zero which is a special version of 1.6. Source isn't too bad and it's mods are better when it comes to certain ones. Now that it has ob engine most of 1.6 advantages are lessened considering how much consistent source is over the 1.6 netcode framework.

1.3 or Beta 5 or 6 but 1.6 is just another sting of failed updates that only produced more problems than it solved. CS pro mod has listed 1.6 and source faults compared to the betas which is staggering as to how much people put up but don't know about it.

The betas of the games still have the original modes in their true nature the current versions don't. Valve basically didn't want to support them despite the vet community at the time wanting what modders in ther current version of ob are griping about at the forums all the time. CS through each different version produces a different type of feel it's like comparing quakes or ut to each other.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

I'm going to take a guess and say that Garry's Mod will be the next title to be released on Mac. It was just moved to the Source 2010 engine, so Mac compatibility won't take much longer.

 

[hoverX]

i'd like to see something interesting other than a Valve release this week.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

Looks like Nuclear Dawn will be a Steam Play title when it's released in October 2010. The game is a mixture of a FPS and a RTS.

Achievements: with a tiered achievements system that unlocks new weapons and abilities on completion of specific objectives, it will be a while before players unlock their favourite classes' full potential, and even longer before every secret, power-up and hidden weapon is in their greedy, murderous hands.

Ranks: based on real world military rank progression, Nuclear Dawn features many a star, stripe and ribbon. Every kill, save, assist, capture and well-placed explosion will fuel the player's progress through one of the toughest ladders in the world; rank progression in Nuclear Dawn becomes exponentially more difficult with each level, and reaching the coveted Commander and (for those who truly have no life) General ranks will be a matter of pride, not of fact.

Full-featured game modes: Nuclear Dawn sports several game modes that do more than rehash the old capture the flag or deathmatch thing. There are, in fact, no flags to be found in the nanite-blasted cities of the future. Explore a whole new world of devastation and survival, with a gaming experience that goes from simple deathmatch to advanced, team-based Spearhead assault.

Vehicular Combat: not only does Nuclear Dawn have machine guns, pulse cannons, flamethrowers and turrets, it also has tanks, APCs and sneaky black ops support vehicles that elevate combat to a whole new level - the level where you get to run for your life against a fully armoured assault vehicle.

32 Player Battles: it's hard to do apocalyptic on a small scale, so we've made sure that the full Warfare mode supports up to 32 players, 16 on each side. It's a big world out there, and it's teeming with enemies.

Steam Powered: Steam is more than just a delivery platform, and Nuclear Dawn takes full advantage of every single trick in its bag, including:

Steam Cloud to save your options and preferences, ranks and progression to have them just the way you like from any PC and reinstall.

Steamworks to power achievements, account unlocks and community features on our Steam profile, because bragging is good for the soul.

Social Gaming and full contact browser integration allow you to find your friends and join their games without having to deal with server names or IPs. Chat, or just plain talk, with your team mates in between games, or across several servers - the more the merrier!

Cross Platform Support. With the most recent engine upgrades to the Source platform, you will be able to play Nuclear Dawn on both the Mac and PC, to play against users from both worlds, and to access both versions of the game from a single purchase.

XBOX 360 Support: your console is not apocalypse-free, and Nuclear Dawn is headed your way as well, with a full payload of expansions and updates, after the PC version.

 

[SeanR1221]

Wasn't sure where else to ask this...

Team Fortress and Left 4 dead 1 and 2 run pretty bad on my iMac. I even put all the settings to low and it still runs jittery.

I have a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB ram (yes I know I need to upgrade this to 4GB eventually) and an ATI Radeon HD 2400.

Is there anything I can do?

 

[markot]

I think the graphics card is just too slow >.<

 

[Yeef]

Wasn't sure where else to ask this...

Team Fortress and Left 4 dead 1 and 2 run pretty bad on my iMac. I even put all the settings to low and it still runs jittery.

I have a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB ram (yes I know I need to upgrade this to 4GB eventually) and an ATI Radeon HD 2400.

Is there anything I can do?

TF2 is pretty cpu-intensive. Try setting cl_reduceparticles to 1. You can also try some of these configs: http://fakkelbrigade.eu/chris/configs/

L4D shouldn't have any real trouble. For both games make sure you have multicore rendering enabled. If you can upgrade the video card in an iMac I'd recommend doing so. So can get much better cards for pretty cheap these days.

 

[SeanR1221]

Thanks for the suggestions, but there's no option for that in L4D

Also, I don't think you can change the graphics card in an iMac. Maybe when I update my Ram next month it will significantly help...

 

[max-pain]

Wasn't sure where else to ask this...

Team Fortress and Left 4 dead 1 and 2 run pretty bad on my iMac. I even put all the settings to low and it still runs jittery.

I have a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB ram (yes I know I need to upgrade this to 4GB eventually) and an ATI Radeon HD 2400.

Is there anything I can do?

HD2400 is a very slow GPU.

 

[MNC]

I have an ATI radeon 2400 mobility in my laptop and it runs source games decently. L4D on med, tf2 on high, resolution 800x600 windowed. I really need to get cracking on a gaming pc

Anyway what I wanted to say is that the games run fine on my card.

 

[Pyrokai]

Regardless, you should still upgrade that RAM. I can't live with less than 4GB these days

If that still doesn't help, then it's probably your video card. I have the Radeon 2600 Pro in my iMac with a 2.6 ghz Core 2 Duo and L4D1/2 and TF2 run very well. I can't max them out, but they do run very well for me.

 

[SeanR1221]

I'll try running them boxed, 800x600 and see how that works.