![]() Now that 1) I’m back, and 2) Half Life 2 Episode 2 is out for the Mac, I can provide an updated comparison using another reference point between Steam on both OSes.įor this comparison I’m using two systems. Ryan’s original article used a Hackintosh to compare OS X and Windows performance. ![]() You’re just better off playing those games in Windows using Boot Camp. To Valve’s credit, games like Portal are more than playable at good looking settings on modern Macs. ![]() In the process of porting the Source engine to OS X a great deal of performance was lost. After reading Ryan’s Mac OS X Portal Performance article when I got back, I understood why. I actually contacted Valve ahead of time to see if they’d give me access to a pre-release version so I could do a performance article before I left. I did miss one rather important thing: the launch of an OS X version of Steam. Last year I threw a dart at the calendar and told myself I was taking 10 days off in May and thankfully, there wasn’t too much that was announced while I was gone. Planning around tradeshows is easy, but planning around unannounced product launches, new driver releases, bugs and unexpected discoveries is impossible.
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