the_eternal_dark Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Consistent updates with openGL. Support for more graphics cards ( GTX280, 4870x2) and multiple graphics card solutions, the implementation of SLI and CrossfireX. A Mac Gaming line (imagine Mac ProX or Macbook X, or some other lame name solutions to sell it to the masses, a black Mac pro with purple case lighting screams evil, though) and more opened drivers for both graphics companies. Less costly/exclusive/"uber-highend" parts, keep the Mac Pro case though . A smartly designed Mac Gaming mouse and keyboard. More "gamercentric" options (user hardware upgradeability (who likes buying a new system just for a better graphics card), tweakable openfirmware (overclocking, etc). Apple or Mac Games library. Release a Mac home console comparable/better than the 360, integrate some of those great OSX features from the start (a dock, downloadable games launchable from the dock, safari browser, "low power" mode for non gaming functions, get creative with it). iGames (to contend with Xbox Live) anyone? NATIVE GAMING, no bootcamp, no parallels, no Wine/Crossover, just convince devs that your products are superior. Maybe I'm just dreaming too damn big... It could work though... Also, quit trying to target college girls and business professionals. Target everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tylerch94 Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Woh wants to run games on a mac? You cant really do much to the hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaasd123321 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 buy a macbook or macbook pro so you will got the better gaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 It would be an up hill battle for Apple to get into the computer gaming scene. There are quality games released for Apple... but I don't predict any big-name exclusive titles any time soon. Windows gaming has been struggling lately too, due to ramped piracy. For example, Gears of War 2 is reportedly not going to have a Windows port done. Epic is apparently "fed-up" with piracy on the PC. 1. Performance for Apple hardware comes at a steeper cost than generic PC hardware. ("Quality", support, and sex appeal aside.) Apple would have to compete on performance/cost against PCs AND consoles. 2. DirectX is a Microsoft product and, quite frankly, has been nothing less than sheer money-making brilliance for them. Meanwhile OpenGL has lost a lot of support from developers (such as John Carmack). 3. Mac OS features such as dashboard, expose, and spaces are a determent to game performance. The OS provides no means of toning down the UI eye candy for the sake of application/game performance. I honestly don't think Apple should attempt to take on the computer gaming market anymore than they already have. Apple users have the ability, now, to install Windows on their machines and consoles are relatively dirt cheep. They should keep on doing what they are doing and not waist any time or money on computer gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafootballer Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 they need an exclusive thats actually good...for example like HALO before it was bought by the evil ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Shadrack, to be fair though about the OS not cutting any UI down, it's not like the OS is any demanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacMeGosh Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 there gaming is fine in my opinion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 mac is dead, for gaming ! a simple example,.... considered to get an imac for my son,... - mac mini , don't cut it, plus it's obsolete - mac pro , too expensive - imac,... can't upgrade graphics card, that's the big one !! gamers need to be able to change the graphics card, period ! game consoles,... - apple does not have one ! - mac versions, are not ported to xbox or ps3 !?! .... and list goes on,... until leopard runs on dell's and they have a game console,... it's going to stay dead ! and what's a couple of billion of dollars to them,... they don't seam to care ! how could they get a game box out ? they can't even get an appletv right !? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justvisiting Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Apple needs to get more developers and buzz involved. They can do this by encouraging the growing ipod/iphone game devs to target the "complete" mac environment rather than just the PDAs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozl Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 apple is taking gaming seriously now! but on the ipod touch and iphone... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 mac is dead, for gaming ! a simple example,.... considered to get an imac for my son,... - mac mini , don't cut it, plus it's obsolete - mac pro , too expensive - imac,... can't upgrade graphics card, that's the big one !! gamers need to be able to change the graphics card, period ! game consoles,... - apple does not have one ! - mac versions, are not ported to xbox or ps3 !?! .... and list goes on,... until leopard runs on dell's and they have a game console,... it's going to stay dead ! and what's a couple of billion of dollars to them,... they don't seam to care ! how could they get a game box out ? they can't even get an appletv right !? I'm sorry to say this, and I mean no rudeness in this at all, but Leopard not running on Dell? That defeats the whole purpose of this whole site, no this whole project! Now Dells aren't the only PC's out there, but they are out there like others! Apple doesn't need gaming honestly, their market doesn't demand gaming really at all. They make enough money. They know what they're doing. They're not dumb. And the pippin? And, here's a thought. Build your son a computer, because even if he got an Imac or Mac Pro, for games he'd basically have to run either XP or Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsianos1 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 the mac is x86 and make graphics better than windows especially if you run it vmware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.ShadowFox Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Actually, Swad. I've been to Mac LAN parties before. Many of them But. If you really want Apple to make gaming better. I think Microsoft should get their heads out of their asses and have Direct X embedded into OS X! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kextman Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 For starters, they should strat puting beter Graphics Cards in Macs. Then Apple should sue M$ for monopoly for not leting them use DX. That would be after they convice some company (ie Intel, Dell...) to buy out Apple shares that are in possesion of M$. Then they need to let big OEMs use OS X on their machines, and make them to solve some of hardware compatibility problems. Then cut prices of Macs and start funding OSx86 project with really big bucs. An for a gran finale, make OS X instalable on every machine, start seling it across the globe and say "Hasta la Vista Micro$uck" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeltn Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 So mainly what I am reading here is 99% of Mac's gaming problems is because DirectX is a M$ only product, and 99% of your games out there use this. Correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konami® Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 So mainly what I am reading here is 99% of Mac's gaming problems is because DirectX is a M$ only product, and 99% of your games out there use this. Correct? Basically that's the concept, OS X use OpenGL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunning plan Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Just a little input. Ive tried all VM, including VMware Fus, Virtual Box (which for Open Source is very good), Crossover and Crossover Games. VMware, VB managed to run Steam and CSS okay, but a little buggy. Tried to install a PC version of COD - WAW but it didnt run at all.. Going to have to dual boot using F8 (which is fast hard-disk selection on P5K mobo) XP and OSX for now I think if you are really into games... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart86 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 The solution? Simple. Keep nursing the Mac market share back over 10%. Once thats done, Apple heaviliy subsidizes the Mac game dev community by backing several native, high quality showpiece games. Basically when they have critical mass, jumpstart the developer community again. There was a decent game market back in the pre OSX days and it can rise again. Back then, there were far more handicaps to producing quality games than there are now. Graphics cards, sub-standard API's and dev kits, etc. Will just take time and slow and steady progress. I used to be a Cider hater, but they've made some good progress recently and it's serving a purpose for now. Most don't remember the dawn of the PC/Mac markets, but in it's earliest days the Mac ports of Games were almost always way better than PC's. It can happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewdvig Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 I think Apple needs a Mac app store - and I think one is coming very soon. Like the iPhone, casual games will demonstrate demand for good games and the big players will smell a market they want a piece of. On the hardware side, getting a 9400m baseline is all anyone could ask for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nATEdAWGG930 Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 good luck xDD maybe just pay mirosoft to make a version of directx for mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastowl Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 if apple included direct x conversion frameworks in place to transfer the required direct x to opengl frameworks they would also be able to apply it to any opengl linux, this wouldn't be direct x for mac just a pass over to the open gl but even with this it would never be perfect and would be buggy new games like crysis level would cause massive conversion errors as they use a custom game engine which interacts with the direct x frameworks in strange ways, but the graphics hardware in osx is never cutting edge and is often way late but game like modern warfare natively on a mac show it can be done if games companies want to as the resources are the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timdphotos Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 they need to allow you to 1. Allow you to update the Hardware in Macs so you can keep them up to date 2. Increase support for transgaming 3. Give you more choice when you choose your mac ( bigger range of hardware sizes etc..) I am a huge gamer and i only own a mac i dont have a PC, i am happy with the way i can run games by either cidering them myself, using crossover(wine) or running the game through bootcamp, one of these will work each time and i am happy with that, i can run modern games like COD:MW2 no problem so i am fine for Power etc.. and i only have the MBP 13" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi audio tech Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Just on the offchance, but has anyone had experience personal or annecdotal on running MS Flight Sim x on a bootcamp MacPro. Im considering buying one for my studio as a Audio Workhorse but it would be nice to go for a fly as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Only thing wrong with apple gaming is graphic drivers and below par opengl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicnoobpwn Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Better graphics drivers available from AMD or Nvidia directly. Better ports of steam games because games run poorly on the Mac under Mac OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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