Left 4 Dead 2

Valve has announced the official launch date of L4D2 on the mac to be tommorow, Oct. 5.2010. Left For dead is also said to come out by halloween.

Are you guys excited about this?

 

never played it... but people been playing it in OSX with Wine (and Cider hacks) for awhile... I'm hoping the official "native" (but not really fully native) version will run a lot better... I may try it out.

 

runs great, I just made a video, check it out =)

L4D2 on MBP 13" 320m 2.4ghz OSX

averaged ~40-50 FPS almost all the way through the video via net_graph 1; medium shaders and model, low effect, trilinear AF, no AA, no vsync native res 1280x800; you'll enjoy it and it looks great, runs better than crossover games. w00t good job Valve on this "port"

 

explain this?

 

It's also on sale now for $6.

 

That is a pretty awesome price for L4D2

 

previously the other ways to play was using Crossover games which isn't really an emulator but used components of Windows system to play the game through Mac.. not native meaning not the original way to run the game properly.

Native is like original, so Valve just released this game for OSX, so playing in OSX would be run natively if through steam. Or playing in Windows is native as well, but that's not as a common term since almost all games are already on Windows if released for PC.

 

Valve games are not running as good on OSX as they are on Windows. This is because they did NOT really make an OpenGL engine, its still all programmed in DirectX. They have DirectX -> OpenGL conversion going on much like Wine does for the graphics in the back end... everything is "native" as in its compiled and running directly with no emulation... but the part that needs to be fully "native" the most or performance.. the graphics.. has an extra layer in there slowing things down a bit. I don't consider it truly native when it is basically translated as the game is running to OpenGL.

For this reason, some 3rd party "ports" using hacked Cider and Crossover and Wine have actually been able to get better performance then Valve's "native" versions in certain games... because the graphics are where it counts the most.

 

I had to learn about this on the apple forum but not the game forum in NBR? Slackers!

 

I suppose it didn't occur to you to look at the gigantic Steam games deals thread located on the first page of the gaming forum where there are a couple pages about that deal.

 

I would have missed it on that page. When Mac gets an actual game running natively, that's news!

 

Man, I can't even run it smooth at high setting in OSX. LOL I'm going to play it on BOOTCAMP windows for better performance at maxed out.

My 9600M GT GDDR2 (overclocked) was able to run it Max setting at 1080p. I do not see why I can't with this 330M GDDR3. Pretty much is the OSX, problem lies between OpenGL and DirectX like other thread said.

 

Thanks for the heads-up! And you can buy L4D and L4D2 both for $10!

 

It makes sense that they would make it so cheap. No one in their right mind would pay full price for a game on computers that can only run it at half the performance.

 

It's the same price on any computer.

 

That was a stupid comment. Steam always does sales when there are updates or new releases.

 

I bought it the other day but the only problem have with is the fact that that you have to download 8gb

 

got it and it plays superbly!

 

Yeah, I'm surprised how well it actually runs.

 

Same. I have pretty much the same MBP and it runs fine (a little hot, though - 79C).

 

Ya it does run pretty hot, but the MBP (i have the same one as well) is known to overheat when running games. The game does run pretty smooth though.

 

In a tentative to dry out the power of my battery I reproduced a 1080p video on quicktime and had adobe photoshop CS5 running, while I played L4D2, the temperature didn't go higher than 75C. It was pretty amazing to me, as I knew of people who reported lots of temperature problems.

 

I rather play it in Windows Bootcamp by all means. Because it is native and it has lower performance compare to DirectX