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    Game Demo's for Mac?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by tayb, Mar 18, 2009.

  1. tayb

    tayb Notebook Consultant

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    Hey it is pretty easy to find demo's for just about any game available for PC but the select games available for Mac I can't seem to find demo's of. One I am talking about specifically is Call of Duty 4. I would just go ahead and buy it for the PC and run it in boot camp like I do all my other games but I am curious to see how games run inside OS X. Anyone know where I can find some game demos for OS X?
     
    tayb, Mar 18, 2009
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  2. ltcommander_data

    ltcommander_data Notebook Deity

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    It's really up to game developers whether they want to release a demo or not. In this case, Aspyr hasn't released one for Call of Duty 4.

    http://www.apple.com/games/articles/

    Apple actually has a pretty good site detailing probably every major game released on Mac. Each article has links to relevent patches and demoes if there are any.

    In the case of Call of Duty 4 performance which Mac do you have?

    http://www.barefeats.com/harper22.html

    Call of Duty 4 looks very nice, but the engine isn't too hardware heavy compared to say Crysis so should run well on a 8600M GT or 2600Pro and above. The benchmarks above show performance with a Mac Pro, iMac with 8800GS, and MacBook Pro with 9600M GT.

    The Mac port was actually done very well by Aspyr with ATI graphics card performance virtually identical between OS X and Windows. Sadly nVidia performance is disappointing because of poor nVidia OS X drivers despite the recent nVidia-Apple partnership. Poor nVidia performance is also seen in Core Image acceleration so it's not just isolated to Call of Duty 4. 10.5.7 is supposed to bring graphics driver improvements so hopefully nVidia performance will finally improve although this problem has persisted since the 8600/8800 GPUs were first introduced on Macs.
     
    ltcommander_data, Mar 19, 2009
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  3. times

    times Notebook Evangelist

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    just intall xp on the partition and play all the demos you want. there a some mac demos,but the pc way is better imo
     
    times, Mar 22, 2009
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