Two questions

[ashen]

Feel free to flame away...

My two questions are: Does anyone know if HL2 will run on Macs or if its planned to later on? Does anyone have any idea what the system requirements will be? Thanks.

 

[Munro]

It wont, no and it's not planned either.

 

[Chris D]

Welcome to the forums, you've posted this in the wrong section though so I've moved it to the correct one

The Half-Life client (as in the game) will not run on Linux or Mac operating systems and so it won't be officially supported by Valve at all.

The system requirements are quite low, but they have risen a little higher than what we thought. We expect that if you have a 1GHz processor, 128mb RAM and anything from a DirectX 7 graphics card then you should be able to run Half-Life 2. Bare in mind though you won't have a lot of the really nice graphic effects.

Hope that helps.

 

[egon]

a mac version of hl was planned but was later cancelled sadly. no mac version of hl2 is planned and i dont think itll ever come out, theres more hope of a ps2 version coming out infact.

sadly mac is very far behind in terms of support for games.

 

[Dead-Inside]

I highly doubt PS2 could handle it. But yeah, go PS2. (Whoever owns a PS2 for singeplayer reasons, go kill yourself. They're only good for playing with an IRL friend [Or several]).

 

[Przemek]

There won't be a mac version of Half-Life 2 because the game uses Direct3D to render the graphics - there's no DirectX on mac as far as I know

 

[Apos]

It's too based on DirectX to work on a Mac. Possible that they will have a version of the Linux dedicated server that could run on a Mac tho (since Macs now run a version of Unix under the hood)

 

[ashen]

Ah ok....well a friend of mine was asking. He uses Mac and I use PC. Oh well...

I have Pentium 4 2.26 GHz, 512 MB memory, 128 MB vid card. I'm hoping I can run the game with at least some pretty graphics.

 

[Kadayi]

It might be possible to Run HL² on a mac assuming it was a high end one (G5) with a high spec Graphics card and a windows emulator like Virtual PC. The Performance probably wouldn't be great though, and the Virtual PC are sketchy on the exact DX capabilities of their product (He should contact support and see if they cover DX 9).

 

[groovy]

direct x? whate happened to open gl? is that obsolete now?

 

[Przemek]

OpenGL is not obsolete, Doom 3 is a good example of that.