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Article by Orestis Bastounis If you’re buying a computer purely for playing games, a Mac isn’t the best choice. We always recommend. Macs are more expensive than a desktop Windows PC, especially when you add on extra storage, memory or a faster GPU, and there’s a far smaller library of games that run natively on OS X, Apple’s desktop operating system, than you’ll find for Windows. And yet, Macs are hugely popular.
They're everywhere now—and that means we should make them the best gaming machines they can possibly be. Maybe you prefer OS X for day-to-day computing and have a dedicated PC for gaming. Maybe you’re a frequent traveler or college student, and prefer using a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air over a Windows laptop.
And we all know a few fanboys who buy every Apple contraption as soon as it goes on sale. Gaming on a Mac may be more restrictive than with a desktop PC running Windows, but if you choose the right Mac hardware, and are willing to pay for it, you’ll be able to play most games without issue. That’s why I’ve put together this guide to gaming on the Mac, covering everything from the best Mac hardware for gaming, to using Windows Boot Camp, to the mice and keyboards you should buy for Mac gaming. If you don’t own a Mac, but are curious about what OS X might have to offer for gamers, I’ll explain the available choices, the different product lines, and what upgrades are most beneficial for gaming. I’ll look at storage, the GPU options, CPU upgrades and even some of the more exotic upgrades you could make, such as external graphics cards that connect via Thunderbolt, or what you could do to boost your Mac’s performance by whipping it open yourself and adding an SSD, more memory or a bigger hard disk.
Take away that shiny aluminum exterior (and bigger pricetag), and Macs and PCs are based on identical Intel-based x86 hardware. By setting up Boot Camp to run Windows side-by-side with OS X, you can play PC-exclusive games which haven’t been coded to run on OS X. I’ll cover Boot Camp—along with a look at some of the other ways to run Windows software directly in OS X like Wineskin and virtual machines—and their potential pitfalls.
Page 1: Introduction to Mac gaming.
An xbox controller can be used on a PC, but it really depends on the game whether it's supported or not. Unfortunally, Bioshock 2 does not support it. See: I talked to the dev team about controller support for BioShock 2, and I want to let you know that we won’t be adding this into the game in a patch.
The decision not to support the controller was not made lightly, and to add it now would take a complete re-envisioning of the UI that the team worked so hard to create. I’m sorry for those of you who are disappointed, and I want you to know that your comments and concerns have been heard and will be taken in to account when we are planning in the future. You can use ANY controller that works on a PC to play ANY game you want. Just get yourself a key mapping program.
Xbox 360 controller, PS3 dualshock, any 3rd party gamepad, etc. If your computer recognizes input from it, you can use it in games. I do it all the time bc I'm disabled and not physically able to use a mouse and keyboard at the same time. There are a couple of decent keymappers out there, but imo the best by FAR is Xpadder: which uses an intuitive GUI to walk you through setting up the controller to mimic any combination of keys mouse that you like. It's a shareware prog that costs $10, but it's worth every penny.
It'll let you create complicated macros that include mouse movements, clicks, wait periods, key presses, holding down keys, etc. and then assign that macro to a single button on the controller. You can even assign different macros depending on how far you tilt the stick on your controller. For example, you can set it up so that tilting the controller's left stick to less than 50% of its total range will mimic 'move the mouse forwards while holding down Shift and then press the R key,' but tilting the same stick to more than 50% of its range will be the same as 'click the left mouse button, wait two seconds, then quickly press the Y key three times in a row'. In short, you can make the controller do anything that can BE done with a mouse and keyboard, and it includes support for 'rumble' and for multiple controllers at the same time (for multiplayer games). You can even have it so that a single button or stick on the controller will mimic up to 10 different key mouse actions, so that you're not limited by the number of buttons on the controller, because it's possible to set a button to shift the whole controller over to config #2 where config #2 is an entirely different set of key mouse combos for each button.
And no, I'm not affiliated with Xpadder in any way. Just a gamer who is incredibly thankful this program exists so that I'm able to enjoy PC games that would otherwise be off limits for someone with my limitations.