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Thing is with Blizzard games is that the performance suffers on a Mac, especially if you've had a chance to compare Warcraft 3 and the Starcraft 2 Beta on both
by omarqureshi 16y ago
Thing is with Blizzard games is that the performance suffers on a Mac, especially if you've had a chance to compare Warcraft 3 and the Starcraft 2 Beta on both Windows and OSX on the _same hardware_
Probably something to do with OpenGL vs DirectX, but, the performance difference is stupid.
Im hoping that Steam won't be the same.
- slyn 16y agoBlizzard, Id, and Valve must be riding on Apple to fix this because 10.6.3 had a large focus on improving OpenGL and driver performance, and supposedly the beta for 10.6.4 does also. Hopefully its the start of a continuing trend and not just a temporary thing.
- mambodog 16y agoIn some ways Apple is really positioned well to facilitate really great 3d graphics performance on the Mac, due to the fact that they only have to support a relatively small number of hardware configs, especially only a few GPUs, and only one 3d graphics API (OpenGL). They just have to give a shit about games for once.