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Quote:It is nice to have a native mac mmo. Thx guys for taking the time to get the game running (even if it's under ciderAlthough this forum appears to be mostly for technical support, I am not sure where else would be appropriate to post this.
I had been dual-booting my MacPro ever since I got it, specifically so I would have a Windows installation to play games on, including, of course City of Heroes. Then, a couple of weeks ago, my graphics card died, and I had to order and install a replacement. The machine booted back up with the replacement card installed, and worked without a hitch on OS X, but Windows XP would not see the card. Searching the web pretty much verified what my gut was starting to tell me; that I was going to have to blow away my installation and reinstall. But before going that route, I decided to test and see how the City of Heroes Mac client worked.
I was amazed at how beautifully it ran. Yeah, I have a few glitches with the mouse on occasion, but certainly nothing show-stopping. And, on this machine anyway, both the color depth and the smoothness of the character motion are actually superior to what I was seeing on XP. So, I was able to abandon that somewhat cumbersome dual-boot routine entirely; I blew the BootCamp installation away and haven't looked back. I guess this all winds up to a big "Thank You" to the Devs and NCSoft for the Mac client. Really great!).
I don't bother to dual boot because I refuse to waste the $100 dollars on a copy of windows.
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I'm new to CoH but I've been doing mac gaming for a while.
3rd parties have VERY BAD mac driver support for mice. Although most companies (like logitech) have downloads for mac, the drivers are buggy.
I come from WoW and had no end to mice problems with my ol' trusty logitech MX500 laser mouse. The problem was the mouse driver and not the game.
I STRONGLY suggest you drop the logitech/etc. proprietary drivers and install USBOverdrive.
http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html
It's a free mouse driver for the mac (imho better than steermouse). Once I installed USBOverdrive I stopped having driver problems with WoW.