Yet another new release PC game you can play immediately on your Mac, thanks to the hardworking Porting Team. Register on the following forum to get all the details:
http://forum.portingteam.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1974
“Notes: I am running an iMac (8,1) at 2,66GHz 4GB ram and 256Mb Nvidia 9400. I was able to run the game at 1920 x 1200 and max settings “
Sounds too good to be true! In my experience CoD 4 was barely playable at low/med settings an 720p on a 9400m.
I bought the official Cider port of Prince of Persia for a few reasons:
Initially I was quite bummed, as the performance on my MacBook Pro was pretty bad under 10.5.8. Changing between the 9400m and 9600m GT netted no frame rate improvement. My LCD’s native resolution was out of the question – 1440*900 was no good. But neither were lower resolutions down to 720p. Yikes!
After my 10.6.1 upgrade, Prince of Persia plays much better. Using the 9600m GT I have the game running smoothly at 1440*900 (low) and the game looks great. The art style is terrific and makes up for low visual settings required for a decent frame-rate. Action platforming games such as Prince of Persia really benefit from a steady frame-rate because timing is everything.
Not a scientific test at all. But it should give hope to my fellow Mac gaming sufferers.
List of cider ported games and their porter:
A-10 Cuba (CrossOver Wrapper) – beber666
Another World Enhanced Version
Assassin’s Creed – locoputo
Audiosurf (CrossOver Wrapper) – zero
Baldur’s Gate + ToSC – thedoctor45
Baldur’s Gate 2 + Throne of Bhaal – thedoctor45
Battlefield 2 – le grand stroumph & thedoctor45
Battlefield 2142 – official Transgaming port
Battlefield Vietnam – dagoWATT
Black & White – ameeps (PPC Official version is out but no UB patch)
Braid – Devilhunter Read the rest of this entry »
I recently came across this section of the Insanely Mac forums.
Resourceful hackers have managed to strip the Cider libraries from recent ports of PC games like Spore, Red Alert and Prince of Persia. This allows them to create community supported Mac ports of old games like Knight of the Old Republic, Jade Empire and Oblivion. Read the rest of this entry »
