CoolBits Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Nvidia announced that its aligning with Trans Gaming earlier this year, a company that specialises in developing cross-OS tools for game developers. It produces an "engine" which lets Windows games run natively on Macintosh systems. Like DirectX games working on Apple's OpenGL baby. http://www.theinq.com/default.aspx?article=37498 http://www.techpowerup.com/?25162 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 http://www.theinq.com/default.aspx?article=37498 http://www.techpowerup.com/?25162 Great news "What next? Apple ditching Intel for AMD?" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-298247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hmm i'm starting to like nvidia... I've always kinda been an ATI guy, but they've really been doing some inovative stuff. I think Intel should buy them. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-298340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 "What next? Apple ditching Intel for AMD?" Hahaha, good one dude. Yeah, I always liked nVidia too and I hope that means that a lot more games will come out for the Mac soon. I, mean I gave up gaming the moment I chose never to work with windows again. But hey, it would still be great to play halflife 2 on the mac. That game rocked dudes. Seeya, hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-298347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 what will this mean or us ati x1600 users? will we be able to play the games for mac? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-298399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Switch Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-298406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Ati will still be supported I think. The translator will translate everything to pure opengl, and ATI can run that. As long as it is not made for Nvidia cards only (shouldn't be since Apple and ATI have had a long run together and they have to support the ATI cards out there) then ALL mac owners will benefit from this. Booyah! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-298422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenctuary Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Interesting story, thanks for the article. Perhaps something similar could be integrated into Leopard? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-298531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kousotsu Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I have been a long time Nvidia from the TNT days, they have had there ups and downs but I still like there support better than ATI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-298536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 well if an nvidia mbp rolls off the line, i will trade my current in for that Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-300222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRP Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Well, to make a long story short, here's the way I think they're going about it: Transgaming and NVIDIA have a partnership, so that Transgaming gets better access to NVIDIA's hardware interface (and NVIDIA's end of the deal? Oh they just get more profit). What Transgaming has basically done so far is rewrite Direct3D's API so that it corresponds better to Linux- (Cedega) and Mac- (Cider) friendly paradigms, such as OpenGL. Access to this information will basically give them better implementations for NVIDIA graphics hardware, so that they go beyond simply "Direct3D to OpenGL translator" to being more like "Direct3D for Mac/Linux... oh, and OpenGL helps a little". Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-300688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Though they can't leave out ATI. To many buying Macs with ATI. I think there will be in the Mac side, a version that will run on ATI to. Mean both card companies do things similar. If they isolate ATI, then all the iMac and MBP users of the new intel lines will be left out, and that will not go well. Frankly the only ones that would benefit with Cider working with Nvidia only is iMac 24 inch users and Mac Pro users, and more Mac owners own the other cheaper models. If this is done right, then Transgaming can make Cedega and Cider run great in both types of cards. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-300929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpc47 Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Hmm i'm starting to like nvidia... I've always kinda been an ATI guy, but they've really been doing some inovative stuff.I think Intel should buy them. F%$# YOU AMD should buy em;)... then buy intel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-301598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vin Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 F%$# YOU AMD should buy em;)... then buy intel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41688-nvidia-favours-mac-os-x-over-vista/#findComment-301885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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