Bummer. Have you tried World of Goo? 2d games should be just fine on it...
How the hell do I break up quotes to put multiple responses in with this godawful forum software??? Grrrrr. It used to work.Originally Posted by Keith Plucker
Plants vs Zombies worked great under Vista but apparently Pop Cap isn't doing the free cross-grade thing because it isn't showing up under Mac Games in Steam.
Another thing I found very odd. I mentioned before that Steam doesn't do a system requirement check before you buy/download a game. Apparently, this even extends to not doing a platform check.
I just downloaded the demo for World of Goo, it downloaded fine. When I tried to launch it Steam gave me an error that the program wouldn't run on my computer. Apparently the demo is Windows only. This is especially bad when considering how I got to the demo with the Steam client. I clicked Mac menu option, then clicked on World of Goo, the resulting page has a button to download the demo.
Is it just me, or do others also think that is ridiculous? I understand that Steam was just released for OS X and will change over time, but the idea that the software will let someone download, and presumably buy, a software title that won't run on their machine doesn't make any sense.
-Keith
Well, you don't. It doesn't work anymore. Report it; it needs to be fixed.Originally Posted by Sam Posten
How the hell do I break up quotes to put multiple responses in with this godawful forum software??? Grrrrr. It used to work.
Originally Posted by Sam Posten
-The games are now correctly giving at least moderate warnings when your system will not run a particular game due to at least OS requirements. I confirmed this last night myself and it changed appropriately when I updated my OS to meet the minimum revision that a few games wanted.
-The Goo demo is a known bug and has been noted in the beta forums.
-It's not ridiculous. This is a system with a LOT of moving parts and which adds something that has never been tried before. If these are the worst bugs we face we are doing good.
On Thursday after we published our article Valve pushed out an update for Portal that focused on fixes for the Mac version. The big fix was the following:
Fixed screen "fuzziness" caused by color correction operation
This fixed the blurriness issue we saw with the initial version of Portal. Texture and geometry quality is now as sharp as it is under Windows. Performance remains unchanged, while there is still an image quality difference between the two due to lighting differences and a general degree of fogginess that still appears on the Mac OS X version.