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Stogieman · Jul 10, 2002, 10:32 PM

Has anyone here tried playing counterstrike under VPC 5.0 in OSX? How's the performance? Is it at least playable? I would like to try this out my TiBook 800. I would appreciate any info you may have to offer.

rampant · Jul 11, 2002, 12:04 AM

Counter-Strike is nowhere near playable. It's not even unplayable. It's hardly even.

Chimpmaster · Jul 11, 2002, 12:57 PM

you have 4 basic options.

1) Buy a pc
2) play Return to Castle Wolfenstein
3) Play Medal of Honor Allied Assault
4) Play Quake 3

Thats it unfortunately. Cs is a great game but it cant be played on a mac. You can run a cs linux server from a mac but there is no client, sadly.

I personally recommend rtcw and allied assault. They are easily as good as cs and much more up to date games, which adds a lot of spice to the gameplay.

Jedi Knight 2 comes out for mac soon and that will be a must buy also.

Jansar · Jul 11, 2002, 01:10 PM

The problem about those games is that I have a decent setup, I mean, a 500/256 Cube with a Radeon 7500 and still they run like crap. Quake 3 runs fine, though. It's kinda annoying when playing RtCW, and no matter what setting I put it on, it runs the same.

rampant · Jul 11, 2002, 02:06 PM

That's CPU limitations, you have a slow processor.

Chimpmaster · Jul 12, 2002, 02:39 AM

I run rtcw on my g4 imac (700mhz) with 384mb ram (it has a gforce 2mx card).

I run it in OSX 10.1.5 @ 800x600x32 with most settings on medium and skies on low detail.

I get very acceptable performance with these settings - visually it still looks great (medium isnt a big compromise) and id get around 50fps which is very playable. In os9 i get around 60fps or so.

Some maps with lots of players on the screen it drops to around 25fps but it really is quite good.

I dare say my machine is about the minimum for playing it - though I cant help but think that a cube 500mhz with the same amount of memory and a radeon mac edition would provide similar performance, especially if run in 9 (os 9 is a fair bit faster than osx for rtcw - id say 10-15fps faster at the same settings).

iNeusch · Jul 12, 2002, 02:41 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by rampant:
Counter-Strike is nowhere near playable. It's not even unplayable. It's hardly even.<hr /></blockquote>Love your answer

Gankdawg · Jul 12, 2002, 12:47 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Chimpmaster:
you have 4 basic options.

1) Buy a pc
2) play Return to Castle Wolfenstein
3) Play Medal of Honor Allied Assault
4) Play Quake 3

Thats it unfortunately. Cs is a great game but it cant be played on a mac. You can run a cs linux server from a mac but there is no client, sadly.

I personally recommend rtcw and allied assault. They are easily as good as cs and much more up to date games, which adds a lot of spice to the gameplay.

Jedi Knight 2 comes out for mac soon and that will be a must buy also.<hr /></blockquote>How about Tactical Ops:Assault on Terror? Go to <a href="http://www.tactical-ops.to" target="_blank">www.tactical-ops.to</a> for more info. Right now the in store box is PC only but if you already have UT, then there are plenty of guides to tell you how to load onto your Mac. The next update will feature full Mac and Linux support.

Sap · Jul 12, 2002, 01:40 PM

It is actually possible to run Half Life in Virtual PC. I got about 10 FPS with my 450 MHz Cube with absolutely everything turned off, 320x240, etc. The main problem is that there's a weird bug in VPC that makes it so that your invisible mouse doesn't stay centered. I know it sounds weird, but basically, you can't look around with the mouse. However, to combat this, I wrote a quick VPC applescript that puts the mouse back in the center of the screen every 30 ms.

Voila, Half Life in VPC.

Of course, you'd be a masochist to actually play it this way...

rampant · Jul 12, 2002, 01:48 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Gankdawg:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Chimpmaster:
you have 4 basic options.

1) Buy a pc
2) play Return to Castle Wolfenstein
3) Play Medal of Honor Allied Assault
4) Play Quake 3

Thats it unfortunately. Cs is a great game but it cant be played on a mac. You can run a cs linux server from a mac but there is no client, sadly.

I personally recommend rtcw and allied assault. They are easily as good as cs and much more up to date games, which adds a lot of spice to the gameplay.

Jedi Knight 2 comes out for mac soon and that will be a must buy also.<hr /></blockquote>How about Tactical Ops:Assault on Terror? Go to <a href="http://www.tactical-ops.to" target="_blank">www.tactical-ops.to</a> for more info. Right now the in store box is PC only but if you already have UT, then there are plenty of guides to tell you how to load onto your Mac. The next update will feature full Mac and Linux support.

<hr /></blockquote>Tac ops would run pretty poorly on his system.