Am I the only one who is playing this game on macbook (or Mac)?

[viion]

I am just curious to know how many of you players have macs instead of PC and are playing this game on a mac.

Seems you started a war by putting "Mac" and "PC" in the same sentence. Community never grows up.

[Zaireeka2025]

Awesome I'll direct my brother to the fan suppressor application. Thanks y'all!

[Yogard]

Oooh, fellow Gentoo user. I only use it on my Gateway and non-gaming laptop at the moment however.

<3 Gentoo

Wow I am surprised to find another Gentoo user on these forums oO Last place I would expect to find one

Edit : wow 2 users now

Gentoo chain #2.

Awesome ! !! !

I can't say I'm surprised, really, but then again I almost always expect the unexpected!
I've used Gentoo as my primary OS for a little over a year, and it was basically my first Linux distro I ever jumped into. I had only tried Ubuntu before, on a secondary machine but I didn't really know what to do with it. I had no knowledge of the command-line at all, and felt a little lost.

I don't know how I stumbled upon Gentoo. I just somehow did, and the way you only get a command-line in the start seemed interesting to me. Reminded me of Commodore 64 days and also of the time when I got my first PC and some DOS-diskettes... it was fun!

For those who have no idea of Gentoo, you basically get just a command-line interface to install the OS from, and even after you have installed it, you are in the CLI as the desktop is just another application, not a part of the OS, so you will have to build that as well from source-code. The thing I like is the sheer amount of customisation you can do with it. That said, obviously installing it teaches a lot already and maintaining it teaches even more so it's a good way to get to know Linux, I think. Of course there is 'Linux From Scratch' for those who want to really dig in deep, and there is an alternative called Arch Linux that is very similar to Gentoo, and so on...

Many people seem to think Windoze is the only way one can do true gaming. The truth is, however, that it is very much possible to play games with a Unix OS as well. Even the most latest games such as 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' (okay not that new anymore but the newest I have tried right now). Obviously things made for Window$ do not run as well, or rather, they need more power and modern hardware is becoming more and more cheap and powerful as days go by, and the developers of Wine are working lots at making things run even better!


I apologise for the slight off-topic'ish story, but it's at least close to it! Comparing to Windoez, gaming on Linux and Mac have their similarities after all, I think, and thus I can say that no, you are not alone in this even though it might not be specifically about running playing XIV on a Mac.

Why is this thread 10 pages long

It's only 3 pages for me.
But then again, I have 40 posts shown per page... hehe... hehehe...
What. <.<

[Shneibel]

Sure an OSX client is possible, IF SE wants to write one up for a Unix based OS. Most companies however don't do this, because the market is much larger on Windows. ie it's not a PC client or Mac Client, it's Windows or OSX.

you realize, that SE dont need to write hole different code for UNIX but only pack it in a package no ?

[Delmontyb]

I would really love to see this for 2.0, they have already talked about adding in some iOS and android apps for XIV. No real idea what those will do yet, but still.

A OSX Client wouldn't be too hard to pull off, after all there are tools that help the transition over, and while it's not the biggest market share, it's still a market share. I for one use both, and would love to have a XIV client running on OSX. I don't think they should do that now, but with the 2.0 client, it could be the perfect time.

[Griss]

I play on a Intelligent talking toaster from the future. The only draw backs is it overheats some times, and every time i get a party invite the damn thing pops out a lightly buttered English muffin which i wouldnt mind so much but the damn thing knows i like my English muffins with jam.

[Bowen]

Why did you revive this thread? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Scherwiz]

/comfort...

Indeed me, indeed.

[Renshi]

Welcome to the club =)

I play on my iMac 27", one version old (with HD4850 instead of HD5750(?) as a graphic card), and I can run this game at full resolution (2560x1440) maintaining standard drawing quality, high background drawing, high shadows, high texture quality and standard texture filtering, and I can have some good 30-40 FPS which are decent.
Or else I just switch to 1920x1080 and add some Antialiasing to x4, and the game goes very good. Sure, if it had full Fullscreen support (included a way to keep the DirectX focused on the program even if focusing on the system) it could be better, but I'll stay like this.
Playing here is pretty great, considering that this computer is meant to be a working one for me, I'm kinda surprised =)

[Matsume]

Why must people refer to non mac pcs as PCs? rather than their Maker Brand Name? (which is what Mac is)

For ex; Mac vs. Dell vs. Sony vs. Home Built vs. Alienware etc...

All of which are 'Personal Computers' capable of running any number of 'Operating Systems' which can then run FFXIV...

Speaking of which, How do the new Alienware Gaming Laptops hold up? Anyone using an M11x, Mx14x, M17x, or M18x? Specs on yours if you do?