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Recruit
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PostPosted: 04-06-2007 07:55 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hey!!
I've been wondering, I want to buy a Mac (wanting is different than buying it...), I play a lot of Quake 4 and Doom 3 (aside of World of Warcraft) and I've seen that both Windows versions are also native to Linux (using the patch and all that stuff), and I've been wondering if also I can use a similar trick to play them both on a Mac.
I don't mean to the Mac native products, I mean that, can you install and play the Windows games using the patch trick of the Linux version (In this case the Mac patch)??
Or if I want to play them I just have to buy them again just to play them on Mac??




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The Illuminated
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PostPosted: 04-07-2007 01:39 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yeah there is a mac patch available on id's ftp. I'm assuming the process is similar to a linux install, you copy the files over from the cd and run the patch to give you a working binary.
There's currently only a 1.3 build available, and from what i have seen the mac patches seem to be a bit slower out than the win/linux ones -
but it is supported (by q4max too)

FTP://anonymous:anon@anon.org@ftp.idsof ... uake4/mac/




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Commander
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PostPosted: 04-07-2007 01:42 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Unfortunately its not quite that simple. Although there are mac patches, they still require a mac version of the dvd to run (other than dedicated servers).

With a nodvd crack it works (I believe - no mac here) but whether that'll get past punkbuster etc I dont know.




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The Illuminated
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PostPosted: 04-07-2007 12:19 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


hmm like the man in orthapaedic shoes said, I stand to be corrected

in that case, its boooo @ id

I never realised there was a seperate mac dvd :paranoid:




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Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu
Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu
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PostPosted: 05-10-2007 01:47 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


didnt they remove the cdcheck a million years ago?




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Commander
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PostPosted: 05-10-2007 06:41 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Not for Mac users, no. Everyone else, yes.




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Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu
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PostPosted: 06-10-2007 05:56 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


aint that a bitch :icon33:




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