Valve's Steam Coming to Mac on May 12



The Mac OS version of Valve's digital distribution platform Steam will be released on May 12, the company confirmed today.

No other details on the launch were given--the announcement was a brief two sentences--though it will presumably debut alongside the native Mac versions of Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal and the Half-Life series originally slated to launch with the Mac client in April 2010.

Those that already own the above games via Steam PC will be able to download them free on Steam Mac. Future Valve games, like Portal 2, are slated to hit both PC and Mac simultaneously and will include both PC and Mac editions with a purchase of either.

How intensive for these games to run?
or is still best to play with NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor?

huhu..i'm waiting for Crysis

I bought a copy in Malaysia but do you know if you're outside the SE asia region it won't work?

So what are the games that are playable through steam in malaysia? Would like to know as Im thinking of subscribing to steam.... Other then CS that I know what other games that will be supported by the mac version of steam?

Pardon my ignorance, why you need to run at such a high res? How big is your screen? 

For Steam games, some key are region lock, you probably need to activate the key under your account first in Malaysia. Once activated and attached to your Steam account, you should be able to login everywhere and play the game. 

Pardon my ignorance, why you need to run at such a high res? How big is your screen? 

For Steam games, some key are region lock, you probably need to activate the key under your account first in Malaysia. Once activated and attached to your Steam account, you should be able to login everywhere and play the game. 

I activated L4D2 and played it fine in Malaysia. It doesn't want to work here in Australia. I e-mailed steam support, they asked me to take it back and ask for a refund.

This should be made illegal. I wasn't aware it wouldn't work in a different country. They are denying the use of what you've bought legally. Frustrated.

This is called: <Regional lockout>. Due to the law, piracy rate and other reason in different country. At first I have the misconception if the game activated under your account it will work anywhere but this is not the case after some Google search!

This post sum it up very well: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/show...9&postcount=115

The poster Cheesenium encounter same problem like you, getting the game to work in MY and AU. (Suprisingly he is is also a LYN member.  )
Seem like gifted game, or the online Steam store purchase copy will work in different region. But not the physical L4D2 box copy selling in Malaysia store!

Extra info:
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1386458   (LYN best thread for any Steam problems or Steam promotion!  )
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/show...d.php?t=1027284
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/show...d.php?t=1193985

So that means 2 more days it will be officially available on Mac? and growl need to be installed for those pop up notifications... Guess ill be singing up for an account soon...

Excellent news. Got so many games on Steam but dunno how it's gonna look like on a 9400M.

wanna challenge your macbook air or mac mini?

May 11, 2010 - Valve announced that Steam will launch on the Mac platform this Wednesday, May 12.

On subsequent Wednesdays, additional collections of Mac titles will become available, each designed to highlight specific functionalities of Steam on the Mac.

The first collection of Mac titles will demonstrate "Steam Play," which allows customers to purchase a game once and play it on all Steam supported platforms.

Portal, in addition to supporting Steam Play, will be the first of Valve's Source engine based games available on the Mac. Native OS/X support for the Source engine is also available immediately to licensees for use in their games.

Among the initial titles available on Wednesday will be Runic Games' critically acclaimed Torchlight. "We're very excited to be bringing Torchlight to the Mac," said Max Schaefer, co-founder of Runic Games. "Having Steam for the Mac solves so many problems for us as a developer. We look forward to our future games coming out on the Mac as well."

In addition to bringing the online functionality of Steam to the Mac, Valve will also make its Steamworks suite of publishing and development tools available on the Mac platform. These include product key authentication, copy protection, auto-updating, social networking, matchmaking, anti-cheat technology, and more. The features and services available in Steamworks are offered free of charge and may be used for both electronic and tangible versions of games.

For more information on Steam, please visit www.steamgames.com.

Installing now... trying out on my 8GB RAM MBP with SSD 

Holy crap! Who gives away games for free? Valve that is!

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Added on May 13, 2010, 7:21 am...frustrating. Can't log onto Steam, says it can't find my account. Works fine in Windows...do I need two logins???

game usually didnt use more than 2GB ram and MBP doesnt have 64bit enabled by default

game usually didnt use more than 2GB ram and MBP doesnt have 64bit enabled by default

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Added on May 13, 2010, 7:23 am
no…. just use ur windows account

may i ask, do TF2 listed in the steam? cause mine dun have it. I bought is under my account, but din see it.

@zidanechan haha they already did with those mac compatible drivers...Mamba/orochi/deathadder to name a few.

Guess its time to sign up and buy those games!

WTH.. 3.8GB... I guess Ill have to leave my macbook on for a few days then... Hmm.. Need to change my macbook settings then.. Is it possible to continue download while in Sleep condition?

whats your graphics card.

I should have screaming performance with my ATI 4850, but its whacked. Only 20 FPS on full settings.

whats your graphics card.

I should have screaming performance with my ATI 4850, but its whacked. Only 20 FPS on full settings.

haha same here.. 3 hours gameplay i got a bug though... can't see through my portals after a few levels

Is it just me or is there patches for Portal almost everyday?

39mb yesterday 71mb today.

Ive just installed steam and now downloading Portal... it seems everytime I open steam, there is a pop up message stating updating steam but dont seem to be running.. I just close it and continue download portal... Hopefully there is nothing wrong with it... Cant wait to try first game on my mac.. Haha

Ok Ill go back and try this method out.. But will this also delete my game as Im currently downloading it... Just scared after halfway downloading and uninstalling it will remove the game and I have to redownload all over again... Or is it saved in my steam account?

I have download the portal games , and I would like to see the FPS
how to see leh ?!