Need advice, gaming on my MBP

[Heller]

so i'd like to load up steam and play a little counter strike;source. I'm still new to my mac (and loving it) so if you could kindly show me the steps of what i need and perhaps a free software alternative I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[sourceninja]

CS: Source runs great in wine. You can get crossover games or install darwine.

 

[Heller]

CS: Source runs great in wine. You can get crossover games or install darwine.

Yeah im gonna need a more indepth response, i thought wine was a beverage :X

 

[Kmax82]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

 

[Heller]

thats not helping, sending me to alink about a program without install links sure is frustrating.

 

[KeypoX]

thats not helping, sending me to alink about a program without install links sure is frustrating.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wine

lemem know if you get it running on snow leopard? I still havent tried

 

[Kmax82]

thats not helping, sending me to alink about a program without install links sure is frustrating.

Ugh.. whatever. You said you didn't know what Wine was.

Here's links to Crossover..

http://www.codeweavers.com/

There's a trial, so give it a try and see if it will work for the games you want.

I haven't had much of any luck with Crossover/Wine. Personally, I would just use BootCamp and a native install of Windows.

 

[KeypoX]

I haven't had much of any luck with Crossover/Wine. Personally, I would just use BootCamp and a native install of Windows.

I havent had luck with crossover, in mac. Wine works so well in linux never tried in mac. But I am so impressed with wine sometimes.


http://www.kronenberg.org/wine/ for wine package for mac.

 

[zylander]

thats not helping, sending me to alink about a program without install links sure is frustrating.

Come on man, just googling "wine mac" gets you this at the top of the page;

http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/

 

[secretanchitman]

wine is a good alternative if you really hate rebooting into windows for boot camp. i personally would use boot camp and get the maximum performance available.

 

[Heller]

using crossover seems to be working, thanks for the tips fellas