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Has anyone got Team Fortress 2 working on Mac Yet?

Define working on a Mac. Do you mean in OS X via crossover? Or in Windows via bootcamp?
 
Sorry should have been more specific. I meant via OSX. I know it can work in boot camp but dual booting is a chore and before I get a Mac I wanna be sure I can atleast play Steam games or TF2 😛
 
The only way to play steam games in OS X is via Crossover. Steam was never a direct port to OS X since Valve wanted $1M for the right to port Half Life 2, and although i think that whichever company could have made that back easily, they decided not to.
 
Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender
http://dabble.com/node/44773836

*Note framerate is lower due to recording the video.
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I couldn't see the frame rate but it looked unplayable. I've had a lot of people tell me that Crossover makes games unplayable due to lack of textures, FPS, etc. From what he said (not what I saw) this seems to not be the case anymore.

Has anyone here successfully gamed with TF2/CSS other Steam games?
 
My buddy used to play Half Life 2 on his MacBook Pro via Crossover, worked pretty well actually.
 
Originally posted by: AnthroAndStargate
Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender
http://dabble.com/node/44773836

*Note framerate is lower due to recording the video.
Click to expand...

I couldn't see the frame rate but it looked unplayable. I've had a lot of people tell me that Crossover makes games unplayable due to lack of textures, FPS, etc. From what he said (not what I saw) this seems to not be the case anymore.

Has anyone here successfully gamed with TF2/CSS other Steam games?
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Did you read what I said lol. He was recording while playing the game. That takes up a lot of cycles.
 
bump to see if anyoen has actually gotten good gameplay out of the new Cross over games. I tried it and tf2 is still a ridiculous buggy crap fest. Anyone have better luck?
 
It runs under Crossover 7, but not all that well. You're limited to DX8.1 graphics with no AA and so-so performance. The sound is also really flat for some reason. It's more enjoyable playing it on a PC.
 
I keep hoping that VMWare, Parallels, Crossover, or Virtual Box will have a WONDERFUL solution for gaming in OS X, but it doesn't seem to be coming fast enough. I don't have a whole lot of time to game as it is, but it would be nice to be able to fire a game newer than 2002.. 😀
 
So are they expecting DX 9 ever? I think they keep blaming Apple but it also seems their code is just buggy and slow cause I think I remember reading one guy hacked dx9 support in and it was still crappy. DX 8 means the faces arent animated and stuff right?
 
I am running TF2 at 1600x1200 resolution on my macbook pro using crossover games. Everything works perfectly. I turned up the graphics fairly high (not as high as on my old windows gaming machine with a 8800GT) and it looks great.
 
Originally posted by: sourceninja
I am running TF2 at 1600x1200 resolution on my macbook pro using crossover games. Everything works perfectly. I turned up the graphics fairly high (not as high as on my old windows gaming machine with a 8800GT) and it looks great.
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How does the water look and also do the faces have animation now or they still kind of dead/blank because of lack of dx9?
 
I can not tell a difference between when I used to play it on windows. Of course there is no longer a full lack of DX9, many DX9 features have been added to wine. It is not complete, but it is getting there.

Of course I do not scrutinize my games, I just play em. I do remember back a while when i tried oblivion on linux and it required a 3rd party patch just to run in wine (a dx8 patch). It looked horrible and played horrible. I have tried it recently and found it looks much closer to what my windows machine did. DX9 support is fast growing and very passable now for high profile mature games. Of course the latest game off the shelf probably won't run for a few months...

I can say I will be buying crossover office pro for mac (which includes crossover games). Remember that crossover games is a separate app that you can buy solo. It uses a much more bleeding edge version of wine which is why it works with more games then crossover office.
 
Just tried TF2 in VMWare Fusion 2 and it wasn't playable. Going to give Crossover Games a try...

edit: Downloading TF2 updates now, but HL2 worked beautifully! Now there's one less reason to go back to Windows!
 
TF2 is not playable under WINE with DX9*, it's an outstanding problem with WINE and all of its variants. The best you're going to get is the mediocre DX8.1 mode.

* Note playable. It runs, ridiculously slowly
 
I just hopped into an empty server, 1680x1050 low settings, and it looked okay. Didn't look fantastic, but at least playable. I'll do more testing later.
 
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