PETITION FOR NS2 OSX PORT
drumstix
Join Date: 2010-11-30 Member: 75359Members
Join Date: 2010-11-30 Member: 75359Members
Alright Mac gamers, it's taken long enough! post 'AYE' on this thread if you wish NS2 to be ported for your MAC!!!
AYE!!
AYE!!
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also no offense to mac people, but I 'am forced' to use one in a class at school and my god is it atrocious
IMO, just dual boot OS's to linux/windows.
This game's limited dev time should be for useful engine stuff for those who already have the game and contributed to its further dev. Better performance in DX11, better CPu performance for late game, maybe even new graphical features, etc...
Strongly discourage OSX development, especially considering the small userbase that would run the game on a mac, even less, the ones that have macs capable of running the game at decent performance.
huehue
Edit: Inb4 Apple invest like $80000 to reinforced
So the way apple users throw money at their screen, that's within 24h?
There is not a cat in hell's chance that any of those machines has the performance required to run games decently, plus the monitors would be pretty horrible for gaming, too.
They're horrible unreliable, overpriced, underpowered garbage excuses for computers.
Most of my colleagues who like Crapple have reeled at NS2. I think they might prefer games like farmville or something.
So: no.
http://unknownworlds.com/ns2/state-of-development-june-2013/
When was the Linux version released? Together with Reinforced in September.
If UWE achieves Mac support till December they can turn it into a proper selling point for the big Christmas Sales.
I guess they're goal isn't to port NS2 in particular, but the spark engine.
They could release their next game(s) on multiple platforms right from the start. And since it's Lua, the actual game code development would only have to be done once for all platforms.
I really hate apple, but if it helps UWE as a company, they should definitely do it.
I'll just refer my macbook for the uses of stream viewing, even if i can run games on it, my PC just runs them so much better..
They fixed the major issues like crashes and path issues.
Yea, unless you like to get killed a lot. But then again that would remove the problem of the system barely being able to run the game.
But we might need to wait for apple to build real computers before this game could actually be ported to run on them.
The solution would be to just uninstall osx then it only boots to windows or replace it with linux and then no matter what it boots you can run the game and everything else in existence.
Performance of ns2 is pretty so-so, as you probably know..
This is a 27 inch iMac that is built to order. It only differentiates from the standard 'non BtO' in CPU and GPU. Just like all computers, some Macs can play games, some can't. The 780M is a good card even if its a laptop GPU and a 3.5ghz i7 ain't too shabby either. So, what was that about how all macs can't play games?
It's perfectly fine that you prefer OSX but there's a reason we use windows and that's not cause we love it that much, but simply because it holds all the games.
Now with steamos you might see a shift into linux over the coming years but its going to be a slow crawl.
If you're really sincere about playing NS2. I'd recommend a dual boot solution. Not just for NS2, but for gaming in general.
I'm astonished that a desktop of that size has a laptops GPU, avoiding getting on some tangent about mac hate however- I personally have tried to run ns2 with a 780M about a month ago, was only able to achieve a consistant 60 FPS on minimal settings, on a 15 inch 1080p screen. I can only assume that an iMac built to order would be running the "lightningbolt" or whatever display that has a higher resolution than 1080p, decreasing performance moreso should you run at that resolution, and being disappointing otherwise.
TLDR: I do not believe laptop cards are even moderately capable of handling this game well.
Also, the average hardware in macs seems to not be sufficient for ns2.
PS: It is possible that I simply had a bad experience with the 780M that does not reflect the performance someone else may achieve in NS2 with the same card model.
That's like saying I have a choice to ride a bike to work but I also want to use the interstate/freeway...
Its been stated many times that on ALL of Steam there is a very small percentage of iOS users... which means the number capable of running NS2 is even smaller... then the number of people that actually want to play NS2 is down to a handful.
Quite literally:
Heck, I wouldn't trust it with my rubbish. It'll sue me for throwing away rubbish.