COD 4 is coming to mac.

http://www.macworld.com/article/131578/2008/01/cod4.html

newegg says 6/4/08.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16832351062

Awesome...still won't matter to me because of my awesome Intel 950GMA card.....Why does intel have to make such insanely great video cards that can play any game well?

Coool!

That is amazing. I don't have to buy a PS3 to get this game!

Thats really cool!

I want it!

Truly horrible coders. Expect a legion of bugs.

Considering it is Cider based, it's not really much of any of their coding.

COD4 is not going to use cider.

It won't but they are still horrible coders. Even CoD 2 is still running like {censored} on high end Mac when there is lots of smoke.

really... cod 2 runes fine (everything all the way up) on my mac... its a 2ghz c2d 1 gig of ram and ati 1600xt 128mb... and thats hardly a high end mac...
r u running 1.3?

on topic: i can't wait for this... is it cracked all ready? I don't think the cod series is worth paying for lol... not my favirote but i like the single player... and i play on the cracked servers once in a while

I'm not running 1.3 but i'm speaking about the SMOKE. Whenever there is everything but smoke on the screen, it runs at 10fps everything maxed. I'm not sure 1.3 changes that, does it ?

Quake4 runs amazingly well on OSX.

Why ? Because it's an OpenGL game right from the beginning and made for Linux which is pretty close to OSX (thanks to the Doom 3 engine).

But COD is a D3D game, not even out for Linux, so expect it to run like {censored} compared to its windows counterpart.

At first, i didn't see the bit in bold, then i did sadly, LOL...
COD4 Is awesome, though PC's still get assassins creed....

Think Mark

Doom 3 is not 'made' for Linux. Its made for Windows/Linux/OSX in mind equally. Now stop being a baby and wait until the game is actually out before bashing it.

You obviously didn't understand what I was saying : of course it was made for WINDOWS in mind too, that's why I only said LINUX, because it was obvious.

I'm not sure it was made with OSX in mind considering how long they took to put out the Mac version of Quake 4 / Doom 3 / Prey after the linux/windows version.

Yeah sure I'm a baby : i'm bashing it because EVERY D3D to OpenGL port Aspyr have made has BAD performances compared to its windows counterpart. Just like Guitar Hero 3, CoD 2, Neverwinter Nights 2 to name a few.

So yeah i'm expecting CoD 4 to be a bad port. If it isn't, I guess Aspyr would have finally heard OUR complains. Yes, you read right, it seems i'm NOT the only one blaming Aspyr there. Oh and why do you think Asypr stop porting Tomb Raider games for Mac and now Feral is ?

the first ever public demonstration of Doom 3 was showed at Macworld. Generally what happens with id games is id produces all the code but doesn't actually release the game, they let the publisher do it (in this case Aspyr)

aww now the Aspyr site says Q3 2008. closer i guess. i'd try it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGo0_lAk9oY

Runs decently enough via Wine within Ubuntu.

Aspyr's site now says Sept 15th.

amazon says sept 30

Its Out!!!

http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2008/09/callofduty4/

yeah
http://www.gameagent.com/store/aspyr/en_US...106317500#thumb

and, since it's aspyr, not a cider, it must be faster

aspyr uses own way to translate d3d calls into opengl calls, with recompilation of original app and etc, which is faster than cider's way

but still is unfortunantely a PORT so performances won't be as good as on windows.

Gameagent has a shitty DRM btw.

I wonder if COD5 will be ported to OS X when it comes out.

According to the macrumors.com forums, the game runs as well as the Windows counterpart.

Not sure the system but one user got these frame rates..

CoD4 Windows - 35-60fps
CoD4 Mac - 30-60fps


Not too shabby, I'd say.

-Stell

Got my copy yesterday morning!

Runs just as well in OSX as it does in Windows, I have two nearly identical systems, both with x1950 gt graphics cards and I get 35 - 40 fps at 1440x900 with everything uphigh apart from AA and AF.

Although the sound isn't quite as 'surround' as the pc version, apart from that it is great to finally have it ported!

except FSAA, everything else is fine. I mean when you enable fsaa 4x, it divides your fps by 4, and by 2 with fsaa 2X.

Except shitty fsaa optimization, everything else is perfect. A good port overall.

Yeah! I'm happy, now I can play one of my favourite games.

Call of Duty 2 uses the quake 3 engine, which is IDtech 3 and Doom 3 is IDtech 4. Quake 3 engine is based on opengl. But it's not that they're horrible coders, it's like you said, DX. It's not easy to port one platform to another like this.

Dunno where you saw that CoD2 uses Quake 3 engine but you are smoking dude. It's a home made engine. Only CoD 1 uses Quake 3 engine.

And again i was right on some point : while the port isn't that bad, it's still slower. Not even talking about FSAA...

I read that this needs leopard to run. I find that kinda annoying, some people don't want to upgrade to leopard, I have a mate who wants to get CoD4 but only has Tiger - he does a lot of home recording and is loathed to upgrade in case anything doesn't work anymore. Can it be installed using pacifist on tiger? Why do all new games need leopard?

Its like it was with Vista...


Same kind of tactics anyways.

I just got it, running it on a hackingtosh. Runs much better on xp/vista than on leopard.

Leopard : 25-55fps on multiplayer.
XP/Vista: 60-90fps

It also doesn't look as good on OSX. Can't say I'm not disappointed.

Hardware:

ASUS P5B-VM
4gb ddr2 800 ram
8800GT 512mb
2.4ghz C2Duo

If anyone has any tweaks that make this game run better, please let me know.

make sure you disable FSAA, else it's unplayable...

was already disabled. FPS drops to like 10-15 when in heavy action.

How is it running on other builds? or actual macs?

for me it doesn't drop under 30fps, even when heavy actions fully maxed except smoke edge (useless, you wont notice it) & fsaa. But i'm running it in 1280x1024, so maybe that's why

What's your build look like?

I'm running at 1680x1050. Using iDeneb's 10.5.5 release.

Never did have much luck with osx86 and gaming, although spore runs fine.

look at my signature. The 8800 GT build I mean.

That's odd, we essentially have the same system except for the processor. I didn't think the game was that cpu intensive, I'm going to try overclocking to see if it makes a difference.

Actually, after testing it, I too saw some really shitty fps. It's night and day with the Windows version and this one.

Also I cranked my CPU speed up a bit and did notice a boost in fps in OSX. It appears to be more CPU intensive in OSX than Windows.

-Stell

Well, OC'ed to 2.7ghz up from 2.4 and saw an increase of about 20-25fps. Now i'm running above 40 most of the time.

Hoping its a bug and they can release a patch for it, though its unlikely.

Oh well, been looking for an excuse to upgrade anyways. Any suggestions for a decent build that runs vanilla?

Thanks,
Gabe

I guess that's why the game is fast for me. It's a shame it's so CPU intensive, i guess because the CPU does most of the Direct3D to OpenGL work...

Overclocking my E4300 from 1.8Ghz to 3.2Ghz really helps! My X1950GT has been overclocked to XTX speeds, but that doesn't seem to make too much difference, about 4fps from base to overclocked. The cpu puts about another 15fps on, running at 1440x900 with 2xAA and everything on. It runs pretty close to my other system which has identical hardware but runs XP and used to have the same 1950gt. I have recently upgraded the graphics card to a Nvidia 9600 GSO (my first Nvidia card since the GeForce 3 in my G4 Cube) I wish this card would work in OSX as it absolutely murders the 1950gt and only cost me £55 for the XXX overclocked version which is as quick as 8800GT but has a nice black PCB (which of course makes all the difference!)

One thing I have noticed though is the HDR makes the models look like they have been laminated when compaired to the XP version, but I'm sure they will tweak it with additional releases.

On my HacMac spectification in signature... this works like poor

Which signature?

COD4 Mac plays very very well on 1920x1200 (C2D 3 Ghz / 8800GT)

CoD4 SP crashes on launch (2-3 bounces then disappears) on my Hackintosh. Reinstalled. Installed 1.7 patch. BUT CoD4 MP works just great. WEIRD.

Hackintosh specs are 2.5 ghz C2Q, 4GB RAM, Asus P5K Deluxe/WiFi, Sapphire ATI 3870 512MB, etc. Leopard 10.5.5.

Any ideas, anyone?

TIA!!

could be the video card, aren't ATI cards not fully supported?