Posted October 12, 2008
GOG is really cool, and the nice thing is (for those of us using Macs) is that some of them are old enough (read: not very graphically intense) to theoretically run virtualized, either through Parallels or Fusion. Fusion's DirectX support is more advanced than Parallels', so I've been using Fusion.
I'm using Fusion Version 2.0, build 116369. The most recent one.
So far, I've tried Freespace and Fallout. Fallout runs nicely in Fusion, you can even resize the window to a more comfortable resolution and the game scales with it.
Freespace works, but not well. It's very choppy and difficult to control your ship. Textures go in and out. Unplayable. But a few more updates to the Fusion graphics driver should take care of it.
I'm downloading Perimeter right now, I'll let people know how well (if?) it runs when it's done installing.
[EDIT] Perimeter runs, but slowly. Again, more optimizations to the DirectX emulator would probably bring it up to speed.
One final note: I know a lot of PC gamers love to bash on Macs. This isn't the place for that. If you don't have something constructive to say, take it elsewhere. Start a thread if you want, bashing Macs, I don't care. But keep it out of this thread, I started this thread to help out Mac gamers, and we don't need PC fanboys telling us that "Mac's are for n00bs." We already know you think that.
The Games That Work In Fusion List:
- Fallout
Games That Kinda Work:
- Freespace
- Perimeter
Games That Wont Launch:
- None yet
I'm using Fusion Version 2.0, build 116369. The most recent one.
So far, I've tried Freespace and Fallout. Fallout runs nicely in Fusion, you can even resize the window to a more comfortable resolution and the game scales with it.
Freespace works, but not well. It's very choppy and difficult to control your ship. Textures go in and out. Unplayable. But a few more updates to the Fusion graphics driver should take care of it.
I'm downloading Perimeter right now, I'll let people know how well (if?) it runs when it's done installing.
[EDIT] Perimeter runs, but slowly. Again, more optimizations to the DirectX emulator would probably bring it up to speed.
One final note: I know a lot of PC gamers love to bash on Macs. This isn't the place for that. If you don't have something constructive to say, take it elsewhere. Start a thread if you want, bashing Macs, I don't care. But keep it out of this thread, I started this thread to help out Mac gamers, and we don't need PC fanboys telling us that "Mac's are for n00bs." We already know you think that.
The Games That Work In Fusion List:
- Fallout
Games That Kinda Work:
- Freespace
- Perimeter
Games That Wont Launch:
- None yet
Post edited October 12, 2008 by Kraetos