Is there a mac client yet?

qLu

qLu
I was just wondering, been out of the loop for awhile - and I can't find it in my account settings so I just thought I'd ask right quick!
 

Iglooman

Iglooman
Not yet - from the store -
Elite: Dangerous will be available on both Windows PC and Apple Macintosh computers.
Whichever version of Elite: Dangerous you buy you will get access to the PC version and then access to the Mac version too when it is ready. Mac users who pre-order now will get all the pre-order benefits of the PC and if they have access to a PC will be able to play the PC version in the meantime, when it is released on December 16th.
 

Armante

Armante
qLu said:
I was just wondering, been out of the loop for awhile - and I can't find it in my account settings so I just thought I'd ask right quick!
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For the longest time FD have stated that a Mac version will be available three months after the launch of the PC version, so that would be middle to late March '15 if everything goes to plan.
 

Bkim

B
Yeah, only to find themselves interdicted and shot time after time by players who builded up a pretty career over time. The online part is going to be worse than EVE. Join the clan...otherwise!
 

Bog

B
Bkim said:
Yeah, only to find themselves interdicted and shot time after time by players who builded up a pretty career over time. The online part is going to be worse than EVE. Join the clan...otherwise!
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Why would I waste my time on a Mac owner? If they don't Bootcamp, then they're not a gamer, and not a challenge. There's no fun in squishing ants.
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
Release of the Windows version starts the countdown to the Mac client. Roll on mid March 2015.

Meanwhile, with my versatile Mac, practice via Bootcamp.
 

Pulse

Pulse
amigacooke said:
practice via Bootcamp.
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because GPU drivers in windows are updated constantly, a bootcamped mac will always run any game more optimized than an OSX port, whether it's native or wrapped.

If you have a mac and want to play this game now, and faster/better than it ever will under OSX - op should spend an hour setting bootcamp up
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
Pulse said:
because GPU drivers in windows are updated constantly, a bootcamped mac will always run any game more optimized than an OSX port, whether it's native or wrapped.

If you have a mac and want to play this game now, and faster/better than it ever will under OSX - op should spend an hour setting bootcamp up
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It may be that we're not bothered that it's not the most optimised experience, good enough will do :)
 

Eros

Eros
amigacooke said:
Now, now, they're only trying to help us uneducated Mac types ;)
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Maybe we need to educate them on optimization... given that compiled code can benefit from up to 30% performance increase on a mac compared to a the same hardware running Windows or Linux ;)

(This is a test iv done btw, results will vary, but for raw calculation the default compiler produces much faster optimizations. One point in history had a PC (same PC i play elite on now) with Windows Linux and OSX running on it. Compiled and did a bench test of an application and saw the general performance to go OSX > Linux > Windows. Which surprised me since i expected linux to be the faster one. Anyway, its application specific and compiler optimization dependant. )

Graphics drivers often don't give more than a couple % -ish performance increase in general, they tend to just stop weird artifacts or glitches
 

Hawkmoon

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qLu said:
I was just wondering, been out of the loop for awhile - and I can't find it in my account settings so I just thought I'd ask right quick!
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Gosh really!

You already have the app on IOS and now you want the game that goes with it, some people!!


;)
 

Nøhr

Nøhr
In march? Then I shall give myself this game as a birthday prezzie!
B.t.w. Frontier, should you need a beta tester, just holler.
 

Schneppi

S
Pulse said:
because GPU drivers in windows are updated constantly, a bootcamped mac will always run any game more optimized than an OSX port, whether it's native or wrapped.

If you have a mac and want to play this game now, and faster/better than it ever will under OSX - op should spend an hour setting bootcamp up
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So not true...
And there are already many examples like League of Legends f.e....
 
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