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Article #716455Re: Steam Christmas Sale has started.....
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:06
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:06
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:24:21 +0100, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote: >Am 21.12.11 05:05, schrieb Rin Stowleigh: > >> In a brief surf of the Steam forums, the only folks I saw that needed >> XP compatibility mode were folks having trouble on bootcamp on a Mac >> (and of course they are pointing fingers at everyone except Apple for >> an Apple specific issue). >> >Actually I use bootcamp quite a lot and have not had any steam issues, >bootcamp is not really different to other windows installs, it comes >down to driver issues if a game fails, and face it most people use apple >notebook configurations, so the chance that the game does not work >properly on a notebook is higher than on a desktop machines due to >various reasons. But that is mostly with all notebooks. I know, and the guys I saw complaining seemed to be trying to run things on an iMac (which from a thermal standpoint is not a particularly smart gaming configuration, Intel has said many times that Apple doesn't know or care anything about proper heat dissipation). And yes, most of the time Windows software should work on bootcamp, but the problem I see is that when they don't, it's Microsoft's fault or the game developer's fault in the eyes of the user. It cannot possibly be the fact that they are running a non-supported, non-tested configuration, and above all, it cannot possibly be Apple's fault. I've got a 2.7 ghz core i7 Mac mini here, but I have no desire to run games on it. In fact I have a hard time finding excuses to use it at all.
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