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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: vaxine0 on October 03, 2004, 08:27:49 pm

Title: mac version When?
Post by: vaxine0 on October 03, 2004, 08:27:49 pm: When is the mac version comming out cuz this game look so friggen awsome i must get it when will the mac version come out?
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Post by: Xordan on October 03, 2004, 08:37:47 pm: Mac version should be released with CB AFAIK. Don\'t ask an exact date. It\'ll be \"soon\"
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Post by: vaxine0 on October 03, 2004, 09:00:46 pm: ok thanks sorry don\'t mean to be stupid should have used more common sense lol
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Post by: dfryer on October 04, 2004, 10:01:13 pm: I\'ve let things slip in the last week or so but things are still Proceeding According To Plan. Keep in mind that for good performance, you\'ll need pretty spiffy hardware (I have less than spiffy hardware, but I\'m used to less that spiffy performance!)
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Post by: mouseosx on October 17, 2004, 06:13:43 am: i cant wait for a mac version of this
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Post by: dfryer on October 17, 2004, 09:06:49 am: Course you can :) If you couldn\'t, you\'d be gone, or dead or something :D

And that would be bad.
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Post by: Cha0s on October 17, 2004, 06:46:44 pm: Will the Mac version be out in time to be part of the testing phase at all?
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Post by: dfryer on October 18, 2004, 02:45:05 am: That has yet to be decided. My availability permitting, I believe it is intended at least on a limited scope.
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Post by: Cha0s on October 18, 2004, 03:48:51 am: Sounds good... there\'s a possibilty.

Oh, and I\'m not sure if I\'ve thanked you before, but I think now\'d be a good time to as well: Thanks for the hard work! All us loyal Mac fans owe you big time. ;)
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Post by: mouseosx on October 19, 2004, 12:21:26 am: maybe i am dead ....

ok .. im alive but it looks really cool
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Post by: vaxine0 on October 20, 2004, 01:39:33 am: im just wondering this word \"soon\" isn\'t going to be like how Blizzard uses it hrmm example. Blizzard... \"soon we will have version 1.10 up. 6 months later \"we are still working on 1.10 and come back \"soon\" anyways i just hope it come out hrmm SOOOOOON!! heh well i hope they are WORKing on it. but keep up the good work
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Post by: imav on October 22, 2004, 06:58:45 am: Can you share what these \"high specs\" are projected as, to the best of your current knowledge? (If the best of your knowledge us just \"better than what you have right now\", can you share your specs, just as a rough point of reference?)

Just curious.
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Post by: dfryer on October 22, 2004, 08:04:44 pm: I am running a 700Mhz G4 eMac, with a Geforce2MX (32MB) and 640 MB of system RAM. Performance may, in some cases, be very slow (single digit fps) but usually is reasonable (10-40fps) for most areas. IMO it is important to have a good chunk of RAM first and foremost, and after that a decent graphics card is helpful.

This is all based on system 10.2.8, I believe newer graphics drivers in 10.3.5 may yeild better performance.
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Post by: Parts on October 23, 2004, 01:31:30 am: Pardon my ignorance of Macs in general (love using them but can\'t afford one, hence I use Linux)

Does you need a Mac-specific version of the GeFarce cards or can you use any AGP Nvidia card?

My obvious suggestion would be to just upgrade the video card as the 700Mhz PPC is already a very powerful processor. Is this possible or do you need a Mac Nvidia card that cost a premium like other Mac-specific bits?
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Post by: cirdan telemnar on October 23, 2004, 08:49:59 am: Quote
I am running a 700Mhz G4 eMac, with a Geforce2MX (32MB) and 640 MB of system RAM. Performance may, in some cases, be very slow (single digit fps) but usually is reasonable (10-40fps) for most areas

Wow thats 1 hell of an computer u got there
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Post by: dfryer on October 23, 2004, 09:32:44 pm: I\'d love to be able to upgrade my graphics card - PC graphics cards need to have their firmware \"flashed\" with Mac-specific information.. unfortunately it is an all-in-one mac, and not a tower, so I have no AGP slot - the agp controller & GPU is soldered on to the motherboard.
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Post by: vaxine0 on October 23, 2004, 11:34:35 pm: Sign still here getting on my computer everyday crossing my fingers and saying to day ps mac version will come out\" but i look at the screen and its not ready... still waiting here yup..
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Post by: Parts on October 24, 2004, 01:38:48 am: Quote
Originally posted by dfryer
I\'d love to be able to upgrade my graphics card - PC graphics cards need to have their firmware \"flashed\" with Mac-specific information.. unfortunately it is an all-in-one mac, and not a tower, so I have no AGP slot - the agp controller & GPU is soldered on to the motherboard.

Despite your GPU being mounted to the mainboard, is it possible that you could use a GeForce FX5200 in a PCI slot to boost performance?

Can this sort of card be flashed with the neccesary stuff?
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Post by: Seytra on October 24, 2004, 08:54:00 pm: I like X86 because they are highly modular. Unfortunately, there seems to be a disturbing trend to reverse this, seeing that almost everything nowadays becomes integrated on the mainboard. This way, I have to pay for all the crap that I know I\'ll never use, and it just wastes energy as well. ATX was a huge step backwards IMO. It\'s almost like a present to the power companies, as your PC will waste energy even when it\'s supposedly switched off. I absolutely hate it, along with the stupid idea of having the PS/2 mouse take one interrupt for itself, and also having these fragile little PS/2 plugs everywhere. And I\'m not even talking about these AGP and memory plugs... *hates it all*
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Post by: dfryer on October 25, 2004, 07:39:17 pm: \"Tower\" style Macs have AGP & PCI slots, but the poorer mac users among us are stuck with all-in-one units with no expansion slots whatsoever (except for RAM) so for this machine, upgrades are a no-go.
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Post by: JeroMiya on November 02, 2004, 02:19:15 pm: Just for comparison, it takes at least a 1GHz PPC, 512MB ram, and at least a Radeon 9000 or better to run World of Warcraft, and that game is *highly* optimized and doesn\'t even push out as many polygons as Planeshift does in many places. I have a 1.5Ghz PowerBook with a Mobile Radeon 9700 w/128MB of VRAM and it stutters even for me in certain places.

Also, almost all recent games require 10.3.x to run, and 10.3.5 in particular (Warcraft will require 10.3.6 when that comes out) because of critical driver bug fixes and optimizations. I wouldn\'t even recommend supporting 10.2 let alone developing on it.

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Post by: dfryer on November 02, 2004, 08:21:05 pm: It\'s much, much easier to support 10.2 when you develop on it :) Keeps you from becoming disinterested in the platform...