The zombie-killing video game Left 4 Dead 2 launched on the Mac today. It's available for download through Steam, a computer gaming platform that aims to elevate Mac gaming from its past reputation as second-rate to Windows-based gaming.
Left For Dead 2 Demo
Left 4 Dead 2 was developed and published by Valve Software, a video game company famous for the Half-Life series and Portal. Most recently, Valve has dedicated most of its efforts to promoting Steam, which includes a direct download store and Xbox Live-like community features.
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Valve released Steam for Mac computers earlier this year — a big event for gamers on a platform that has for at least two decades played second fiddle to Windows-based machines when it comes to gaming. Other than the critically acclaimed Portal and the pseudo-indie Diablo clone Torchlight, the initial library of Mac titles on Steam was unimpressive, but it's growing.
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Valve's own Half-Life 2 was added to the Mac version of the service in May while third-party support has been limited to smaller games with just a few exceptions like Sid Meier's Civilization IV. Even though Steam has been slow to take off, Mac gaming overall has become more impressive than ever in recent months.
Major titles available on the Mac, in addition to other platforms, include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age Origins, StarCraft II, The Sims 3, The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition, BioShock and Spore. The Mac library still doesn't rival those that Windows, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 gamers enjoy, but it's been steadily gaining steam — no pun intended!
Left 4 Dead 2 For Mac Steam Version
Mac Gaming: We Still Have Problems, People
Valve has been vocal with criticisms for the platform even as it commits resources to support it. Most importantly, Valve insists that the Mac's overly standardized video drivers — the software that operates the computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) — are ill-optimized for gaming, and that Apple and GPU manufacturers will have to take action.
I noticed this myself when I took Left 4 Dead 2 for a whirl on a MacBook Pro from early 2009. I had previously played the game in Microsoft Windows 7 on the same machine at max graphics settings. The 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, four gigabytes of RAM and GeForce 9600M GPU ran the game very smoothly in Windows with the default drivers from the GPU's manufacturer.
I was forced to disable anti-aliasing and other graphical bells and whistles to achieve a playable state in the Mac version of the game, and even then I experienced frequent errors and crashes, as depicted in the image below.
In theory, a standardized platform like the Mac should be better optimized for gaming. Game developers are forced to consider an infinitude of hardware configuration options when optimizing and testing their products for Windows users, so PC gamers have always been plagued with technical problems simply because their unique configurations were not considered.
Those same developers could focus on only a few standardized hardware configurations with Mac machines, but Apple's strong grip of control prevents drivers optimized for gamers from being easily available.
We're thrilled to see all these games coming to the Mac, but we'll be even more thrilled when Apple dedicates the same amount of effort to Mac gaming as it does to gaming on the iPhone and iPod touch.
I don't know about the 13 inch model. That machine is known for having less-capable graphics hardware. Of course, L4D2 isn't exactly a cutting-edge game, either, and it's based on an engine that was used in older games as well. (Not that I mean that as an insult, I think that all of Valve's games based on that engine are great... the graphics are quite good, the physics are great and, most importantly, the gameplay is awesome.)
Here's what its system requirements are:
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OS: MacOS X 10.6.4 or higher (Snow Leopard Graphics Update required)
Processor: Dual core Intel processor, 2GHz or better
Video Card: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000
Not supported: OS X 10.5.x, ATI X1600 or X1900 graphics, NVIDIA GeForce 7 graphics or Intel graphics less than Intel HD 3000
That does seem to include your machine, so it may be worth a try.
Oct 20, 2012 7:49 AM