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[nospel]

what no mac support only PC

[Catamount]

First, welcome to the forums.

Secondly, please, please, please go and do a search before making a topic like this to make sure it hasn't been addressed before, like, a billion times.

http://mwomercs.com/...this-be-on-mac/

http://mwomercs.com/...ac/page__st__20

http://mwomercs.com/...68-mac-support/

http://mwomercs.com/...d-against-macs/

http://mwomercs.com/...-for-mac-users/

http://mwomercs.com/...or-on-mac-os-x/

(etc, etc, etc)

There is no Mac support because first off, Microsoft is heavily involved with the IP, and secondly, Cryengine 3 is DX9/11 only, and OSX has no DirectX support, DirectX being a Microsoft API. If you want to play it, either get a copy of Windows and dual boot, get a PC, or fiddle around with Wine or something, all assuming you have passable gaming hardware.

Edited by Catamount, 25 April 2013 - 04:06 PM.

[VIOLENT REACTION]

And firstly..who wants to use an Apple Mac for gaming???


just saying..and I'm drunk

[Warlune]

I recommend using bootcamp. That's what I do.
As a music major in college, a macbook pro made the most sense for what I needed, but I needed my pc gaming fix too, so bootcamp is the way to go.

[7 Nation Army]

Silly nospel, macs are for kids!

[Slab Squathrust]

We have a mac pro where I work and were running MWO on parallels at fairly decent settings. If I recall correctly it was 40 FPS at medium settings. This was without being able to install the latest AMD drivers, just using the stock ones downloaded by windows update. Having dual xeon chips probably helped as this game seems pretty CPU intensive currently...

[Jake Walker]

guess i'm out of the game then. I had to sign up to a game i can't actually play just to get an answer to my question about whether or not i can play it. a bit ironic....

[ivr56]

CryEngine 3 isnt on OSX/Lunix. Best bet is as everyone else says,
Bootcamp
or
Parallels/VMFusion if your mac is powerful enough to do both OSX/Windows + game at once

Works fine in bootcamp though
HD3000, i5, 8GB 13" runs MWO lowest settings 1280x800 around 24-30fps. Passable but still playable with bigger mechs. MBP's with dedi video should play fine

[Catamount]

There are definitely Macs that would play MWO acceptably, and if a user has already put down the exorbitant cost for a Mac that's high end enough to sport even modest gaming hardware ($1300 for an Imac/$1800 for an MBP), then a paltry $100 for a copy of Windows is going to be completely immaterial.

It's not only not much more than the cost of a single game these days, but it should be part of the expected cost of owning a Mac, because a lot of software, especially games, are not OSX compatible. It's hardly just MWO.

Edited by Catamount, 28 April 2013 - 08:11 AM.