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dlisle20
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will this mean games will run faster on macs and will increase the mac gaming industry? games run so slow on my powerbook, and they run really fast on a P4 with the same graphics card, and also will they brong direct x to mac?
good point that being said it will probably kill the mac gaming cuz you could just boot up windows and off you gomraya said:I don't think the switch will make a difference in games at the beginning because you will be able to use Windows in the new Macs.
rman said:My understanding that the new system, may boot windows. I have not read that it will boot. We would need to see if boot windows first. If that happens gaming would be a problem.
dlisle20 said:will this mean games will run faster on macs and will increase the mac gaming industry? games run so slow on my powerbook, and they run really fast on a P4 with the same graphics card, and also will they brong direct x to mac?
claudius753 said:...too bad game makers wouldn't just adopt OpenGL instead and develop that more instead of DirectX.
lonerider said:There isn't going to be any inherent advantage of intel vs PowerPC for gaming. The question really isnt about hardware, its about software. Games, and drivers (esp video drivers), have to be optimized to run well on either platform. That is the problem the Mac platform has now - software optimization (not hardware), and that problem won't go away by switching hardware.
I also wouldn't expect to see much in the way of new games for OSX until late 2006, early 2007. Until the transition is complete, no one is going to want to have to release 2 binaries to support different architecture Macs. Yes according to Jobs its easy, but the nitty gritty details of having to debug / troubleshoot 2 platforms for the same OS in a relatively niche market is going to push a lot of developers away.
A lot of Mac developers use CodeWarrior too, and at the moment it doesn't cross-compile. The major game I'm thinking of written with CodeWarrior is World of Warcraft.
-Lonerider