Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #14
I remeber when Bungie did the Halo demo on a PowerMac at macworld... They bill comes along and starts throwing wads of money to get his way. It's weird that Apple gaming isnt as po…
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Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #15
Apple would have to do something with their iMac hardware to really make them a gaming contender. You can't even play Doom 3 well on the majority of the new hardware, and those th…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #16
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
It's all about market. id doesn't want to take the time to make games anymore becuase they don't make bazillions of dollars on th…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #17
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Originally posted by TailsToo:
Apple would have to do something with their iMac hardware to really make them a gaming contender. You can't even play Doom 3 well …
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #18
All in due time my child! Have patience.
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #19
I like the idea of Apple sending out Devs or having Devs trained on Mac hardware and going out and helping different studios... I wouldn't want any of the OS X developers to be tak…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #20
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Originally posted by Hawkeye_a:
I remeber when Bungie did the Halo demo on a PowerMac at macworld... They bill comes along and starts throwing wads of money to ge…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #21
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Originally posted by goMac:
IIRC Blizzard started out on SNES and moved to DOS.
Actually they started as Silicon & Synapse (Battlechess, The Lost Vikings)…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #22
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Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
Again, Doom III is more than playable on any new mac and even many older ones. Just because some jerk maxed the settings and…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #23
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Originally posted by TailsToo:
According to Aspyr, the new iMacs graphic cards are only acceptable.
That's a crock. If they wanted to, they could adapt game…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #24
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Originally posted by Hawkeye_a:
I've personally learned to live with it though..... i get work done on my Powerbook and goto my console(Gamecube) for gaming. i th…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #25
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Originally posted by Randman:
That's a crock. If they wanted to, they could adapt games to meet any graphic cards. Or create games for graphic cards. It sounds, t…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #26
Actually, if x86 optimization (and lack of G5 optimized code) is such a clincher, and Xbox is moving to the G5 platform, shouldn't that make game optimizations much more easily por…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #27
Steve wanted the iMac to be some great home gaming machine, and then Apple dropped the ball by putting only the cheapest, crappiest video chips into them. Apple needs to offer a be…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #28
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Originally posted by ReggieX:
Steve wanted the iMac to be some great home gaming machine...
Is there anything at all that supports this claim?
Or is it safe …
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #29
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Originally posted by Hawkeye_a:
Hmmm...honestly how many Apple users actually play video games on their computer ? Ill admit that the last game i baught for my Ma…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #30
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Originally posted by ReggieX:
Steve wanted the iMac to be some great home gaming machine, and then Apple dropped the ball by putting only the cheapest, crappiest …
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #31
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Originally posted by Randman:
That's a crock. If they wanted to, they could adapt games to meet any graphic cards.
What? There's no magical "optimize" button o…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #32
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
But Doom III is just pathetic. Again, another game "ported" to the Mac with little or no optimization. Then people yell out "loo…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #33
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Originally posted by analogika:
Is there anything at all that supports this claim?
Or is it safe to assume that you have no idea, but merely prefer to believe th…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #34
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Originally posted by Angus_D:
What? There's no magical "optimize" button or process or anything that will make a cutting edge game run acceptably on older graphic…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #35
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Originally posted by Angus_D:
What? There's no magical "optimize" button or process or anything that will make a cutting edge game run acceptably on older graphic…
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #36
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Originally posted by Angus_D:
Yeah, no optimization. And I'm sure you could do much better. Have you read this post by Glenda Adams of Aspyr?
Nowhere did I …
Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #37
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Originally posted by macaddict0001:
actually there sort of is, you can create a game that relies more on cpu or more on graphics cards to do its processing.
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Why doesn't Apple improve gaming? — #38
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Originally posted by The Godfather:
Just get a gaming apparatus and forget about FPS in your Mac.
That's my point. I'm happy with my XBox but Apple gets a …