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Steam for Mac off to a buggy start

Posted on Wednesday, May 12 @ 21:44:27 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

As many of you well know, Steam made its big jump over to the Mac platform today. Hooray!

I've been hotly, hotly anticipating the arrival of the only form of DRM PC gamers seem to tolerate, especially because dual-booting is pain in the ass. Sure, dedicating a third of my hard drive space to Windows XP only so I could play Team Fortress 2 was worth it for a long time. After I heard Steam was going to make the jump in April (Valve time: May), I removed the partition and waited patiently. And then I kept waiting.

As the sneak peeks and previews rolled in, I continued to twiddle my thumbs in anticipation. Finally, a hard date was set (Today, May 12th), but my skepticism kept me from jumping to excitement. I was disappointed that Team Fortress 2 wouldn't be part of the launch date celebrations, but figured that the delay would give me plenty of time to replay Portal.

Unfortunately, I'll be forced to continue waiting. Steam's debut on the Mac platform has been unfortunately buggy, and not just for me! A quick look at the Steam Forums will net you quite a bit of reading material, mainly generated by people facing unexpected issues. Mine happens to center around Portal being one big glaring white screen, with no real visuals to speak of in sight.

How has your Steam for Mac experience gone? And if there aren't any Mac users out there in GR-land, why don't you take this opportunity to deride my computing choice?

Tags: steam, mac, portal

Comments

De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: May 13th, 2010 at 11:58 am
I'm confident in my continued use of Windows XP. Though Mac has brought about some nice things, it just isn't the ideal gaming platform, and as Valve has demonstrated, it probably never will be. I do hope they get this straightened out, though. Everyone needs to be able to play Portal. And Monkey Island.

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LukeHarris
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: May 13th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
You mean the PC version of a game system is superior to the launch version of a Mac one? The shocking horror!

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flakking
Joined: Oct 2008

Posted: May 13th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
I doubt the day will come that will show us a decent port of anything to Mac. Meh, I've got a console, and playing games on a laptop is a pain anyways. 6 years of Mac, and I've still yet to see a decent port of anythingâ€“even Word sucks (though that may just be the source).

Though fingers crossed that Diablo 3 so much as comes out, and runs well on a Mac. I wonder if by then we'll be able to use a Wacom Tablet for games...

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