Oblivion

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shadow slayer 26shadow slayer 26
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I got two questions here about Oblivion (if you havn't heard of it, google "elder scrolls 4: oblivion).



1) Any chance of a port to Mac? (one can be hopeful?)



2) Will my 20" imac with 1 gig of ram and 256 mem. be able to play it fine (dual-boot with windows).



Thanks!

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    theapplegeniustheapplegenius Posts: 584member
    Probably not, and definetly not (yet). Games don't get ported that fast from DirectX, and there are no display drivers for Windows.
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    r3dx0rr3dx0r Posts: 201member
    i think i read at inside mac games that oblivion uses havok as the physics engine which has way too high licensing fees for any mac games company. so i guess the chances of seeing oblivion on the mac are probably the same as of half-life 2, slim to none.
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    animal farmanimal farm Posts: 76member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Shadow Slayer 26

    I got two questions here about Oblivion (if you havn't heard of it, google "elder scrolls 4: oblivion).



    1) Any chance of a port to Mac? (one can be hopeful?)



    2) Will my 20" imac with 1 gig of ram and 256 mem. be able to play it fine (dual-boot with windows).



    Thanks!



    I actually asked this a question to the effect of "will this game be ported?" on the official forums awhile back. A Bethesda rep. said while the company itself wouldn't do it, it would be more than open to another company taking on the challenge (which isn't to be underestimated; I hear it's difficult to port Havoc).



    He remarked that the best way to achieve this was to lobby well-known Mac game publishers/porters (such as Apsyr, Feral, etc.)



    As said before, there are no display drivers--yet. Still, I think the iMac's graphics card the bottleneck and would possibly restrict you to a low or a dumbed-down medium setting.



    On a separate note, I'm playing Oblivion on my Windows comp and loving it, though I'd make a few changes myself.
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    shadow slayer 26shadow slayer 26 Posts: 383member
    Thanks! I know about how there are not video drivers yet, but there will be eventually. Also i was wondering about Mac vs Xbox 360. The 360 would play it well enough, but it wouldn't have ne mods, expansions, ect.



    Thanks again!
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    pbg4 dudepbg4 dude Posts: 1,611member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Shadow Slayer 26

    Thanks! I know about how there are not video drivers yet, but there will be eventually. Also i was wondering about Mac vs Xbox 360. The 360 would play it well enough, but it wouldn't have ne mods, expansions, ect.



    Thanks again!



    I have the Xbox 360 version and Oblivion is an awesome game! If you have an HDTV wouldn't you rather use that as your display? I'll take kicking back on the couch using a wireless controller and playing in 720p over being stuck at the computer desk looking at a smaller monitor (even if it is > 1280x720) any day.



    Bethesda could also use Live to push out patches/enhancements/mods as well, if they wanted to. All 360 owners have free Live Silver accounts which allows you to download content. You only have to pay for Gold if you want to play online.
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    shadow slayer 26shadow slayer 26 Posts: 383member
    nope no HDTV...i decided to go for an iMac instead...and it was by far the right chose. Especially when i had to worry about my computer crashing in the middle of doing NETHING....stupid Windows...



    I do have XBL gold, but like the first day the Oblivion came out people had mods...i doubt that XBL could list every mod made for the game. Also the harddrive would fill up pretty fast...
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    pbg4 dudepbg4 dude Posts: 1,611member
    Yea, I did some more reading on the PC version of Oblivion and it looks like they definitely do have more power over the world of Oblivion.



    I still don't mind as the 360 will be able to play new games for years. Computers will have to be upgraded next year in order to play next year's games.
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