If u r using Snow Leopard on your any Macbook and every now and then u get a pop up when u try downloading Apps which are meant for Mac Lion from the Macbook App Store.
I've got an older MacBook Pro (2.4 Ghz, 4 GB RAM) and I'm still running 10.6.8 on it. At some point I'm going to have to upgrade to Lion, but before that happens I want to know what I'll lose or gain when it comes to gaming on a Mac.
I'd appreciate it if anyone could answer some or all of the following questions:. Is it still possible, under Lion, to turn off mouse acceleration? I heard grumblings that it is no longer possible. Can someone confirm or deny that for me?.
Are the graphics drivers improved under Lion or will I see my frame-rates drop?. Does Myth II still work under Lion?. How are Steam games like L4D, L4D2, and TF2 under Lion? I've got an older MacBook Pro (2.4 Ghz, 4 GB RAM) and I'm still running 10.6.8 on it.
At some point I'm going to have to upgrade to Lion, but before that happens I want to know what I'll lose or gain when it comes to gaming on a Mac. I'd appreciate it if anyone could answer some or all of the following questions:.
Is it still possible, under Lion, to turn off mouse acceleration? I heard grumblings that it is no longer possible. Can someone confirm or deny that for me?. Are the graphics drivers improved under Lion or will I see my frame-rates drop?. Does Myth II still work under Lion?. How are Steam games like L4D, L4D2, and TF2 under Lion?
Click to expand.Myth II is PowerPC, so no. In the start many games did have issues with the updated graphic drivers, but I think most have been fixed. I don't believe an older machine would benefit much, as the drivers for your card is very mature (you probably have a nvidia 8xxx or 9xxx series).
For newer graphics cards you'll probably get better performance, due to updated drivers. I still have 10.6.8 on my main machine, and I'm not gonna upgrade until I have to, but I have 10.7 on my laptop. I've got an older MacBook Pro (2.4 Ghz, 4 GB RAM) and I'm still running 10.6.8 on it. At some point I'm going to have to upgrade to Lion, but before that happens I want to know what I'll lose or gain when it comes to gaming on a Mac.
I'd appreciate it if anyone could answer some or all of the following questions:. Is it still possible, under Lion, to turn off mouse acceleration? I heard grumblings that it is no longer possible. Can someone confirm or deny that for me?.
Are the graphics drivers improved under Lion or will I see my frame-rates drop?. Does Myth II still work under Lion?.
How are Steam games like L4D, L4D2, and TF2 under Lion? First of all, mac's aren't for gaming. So you are limited. Although the two best companies for multiplayer games support OSX. That is valve and blizzard.
You can play counter-strike, team fortress, portal, left 4 dead, day of defeat and you can play starcraft/warcraft and diablo. As for an mmo that isn't warcraft, your best bet is eve online that's about it for mac gaming, unless you count casual gaming like peggle, bejeweled and such, steam has a lot of those, so does facebook. Once you get older, you'll stop playing lots of games, and the ones supported on mac osx are the best ones anyways, so it doesn't really matter. Learn to play your limited games, they're the best any ways. So keep this in mind. Valve, blizzard, casual or eve online.
That's your choices. Have fun (as for lion vs snow leopard) its a question of old vs new. Are your games supported/updated by the dev?
For instance, starcraft 1 and diablo 1-2 aren't supported under lion, blizzard is too lazy to update them, so you're forced to play the newer games. Warcraft 3 still works. Sorry, in order to please a certain audience who looks at steam numbers, there is another game people actually play.
It's assassin's creed and civilization 5. So you can add those two games to the list. First of all, mac's aren't for gaming. So you are limited.
Although the two best companies for multiplayer games support OSX. That is valve and blizzard. You can play counter-strike, team fortress, portal, left 4 dead, day of defeat and you can play starcraft/warcraft and diablo. As for an mmo that isn't warcraft, your best bet is eve online that's about it for mac gaming, unless you count casual gaming like peggle, bejeweled and such, steam has a lot of those, so does facebook. Once you get older, you'll stop playing lots of games, and the ones supported on mac osx are the best ones anyways, so it doesn't really matter. Learn to play your limited games, they're the best any ways.
So keep this in mind. Valve, blizzard, casual or eve online. That's your choices.
Have fun (as for lion vs snow leopard) its a question of old vs new. Are your games supported/updated by the dev? For instance, starcraft 1 and diablo 1-2 aren't supported under lion, blizzard is too lazy to update them, so you're forced to play the newer games. Warcraft 3 still works.
First of all, mac's aren't for gaming. So you are limited. Although the two best companies for multiplayer games support OSX. That is valve and blizzard. You can play counter-strike, team fortress, portal, left 4 dead, day of defeat and you can play starcraft/warcraft and diablo.
As for an mmo that isn't warcraft, your best bet is eve online that's about it for mac gaming, unless you count casual gaming like peggle, bejeweled and such, steam has a lot of those, so does facebook. Once you get older, you'll stop playing lots of games, and the ones supported on mac osx are the best ones anyways, so it doesn't really matter. Learn to play your limited games, they're the best any ways. So keep this in mind. Valve, blizzard, casual or eve online.
That's your choices. Have fun (as for lion vs snow leopard) its a question of old vs new. Are your games supported/updated by the dev?
For instance, starcraft 1 and diablo 1-2 aren't supported under lion, blizzard is too lazy to update them, so you're forced to play the newer games. Warcraft 3 still works.
Sorry, in order to please a certain audience who looks at steam numbers, there is another game people actually play. It's assassin's creed and civilization 5. So you can add those two games to the list. Click to expand.I think you are mistaken as to what Rosetta is. Rosetta does NOT allow you to run OS9 apps. Rosetta is a PPC emulator, so it lets you run Mac OS X PPC apps on Mac OS X Intel machines. Nothing more.
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And Intel patch would be changing a Mac OS X app from PPC to Intel. It has nothing to do with OS9. Earlier emulation of OS9 that was available on PPC Macs was called classic, and was a bit different than Rosetta since it had to emulate OS9 compatibility and did nothing with processor emulation.
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No Intel Mac has ever supported Classic. I think you are mistaken as to what Rosetta is. Rosetta does NOT allow you to run OS9 apps.
Rosetta is a PPC emulator, so it lets you run Mac OS X PPC apps on Mac OS X Intel machines. Nothing more. And Intel patch would be changing a Mac OS X app from PPC to Intel. It has nothing to do with OS9. Earlier emulation of OS9 that was available on PPC Macs was called classic, and was a bit different than Rosetta since it had to emulate OS9 compatibility and did nothing with processor emulation. No Intel Mac has ever supported Classic. Click to expand.There are quite a few reasons to no longer support Rosetta, it is not something that just keeps working it needs constant maintenance, also you need to make sure all your libraries have backward compatibility with thew rosetta technology which means more work for all the OS teams.
Have some new feature that is both quicker and more efficient than before but it does not work with Rosetta then you have to either make it work by compromising the design or not use that method. It is not always cut and dry but Rosetta was to support PPC. The last PPC hardware was in 2006 so it has been 6 years since Apple shipped any hardware that was PPC based. I understand the pain in removing this (we even have a few games that now don't work in Lion). However I understand the reasons, if you care that much just make a Snow Leopard partition on your HD for playing those specific games I used to have the same with an OS9 partition (for Deus Ex and UT99) back in the day. I am not saying that I wanted Rosetta to go but equally I understand by dropping Rosetta they have the opportunity to spend all that time on newer technology that they did not have the time to work on or would not work when you have to keep supporting a 6 year old hardware platform though a translation system.
It is not always cut and dry but Rosetta was to support PPC. The last PPC hardware was in 2006 so it has been 6 years since Apple shipped any hardware that was PPC based. I understand the pain in removing this (we even have a few games that now don't work in Lion).
However I understand the reasons, if you care that much just make a Snow Leopard partition on your HD for playing those specific games I used to have the same with an OS9 partition (for Deus Ex and UT99) back in the day. I am not saying that I wanted Rosetta to go but equally I understand by dropping Rosetta they have the opportunity to spend all that time on newer technology that they did not have the time to work on or would not work when you have to keep supporting a 6 year old hardware platform though a translation system.