Why $300?

Post #326,223 by SpiceWare 5/14/10 12:32:53 PM Reply	Why $300? It plays fine on my dad's MacBook Pro which has the GeForce 9400M. Tiger Direct has various 9400 models starting at $35. It shows more detail on my MacBook Pro, which has the GeForce 9600M. TD has the 9600s starting at $75.
Post #326,232 by malraux 5/14/10 2:23:06 PM Reply	I have a 7800 Needs at least an 8 series; the 8800 GT is the one the NVidia site had listed for 1st edition Mac Pros. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #326,234 by SpiceWare 5/14/10 2:53:50 PM Reply	Gotcha guess the small market for Mac video cards is one of the downfalls of there not being a non-Pro Mac tower.
Post #326,255 by Meerkat 5/14/10 9:12:39 PM Reply	Pleasantly surprised by performance of my MBP's 8600M GT My MacBookPro's a late '07 model, but still runs Portal quick enough. Only downside is the portals themselves are 'black' and don't show what's on the other side of them. Ah well, any excuse to upgrade...! It works a treat on my iMac, well, I started playing it a few months back via Bootcamp. Oh and I TOTALLY agree with Spiceware - if you haven't played it, don't google ahead for spoilers! :) They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
Post #326,260 by SpiceWare 5/14/10 10:07:20 PM Reply	That's a recently introduced bug when I ran it this evening it downloaded an auto-update and the Portals turned black. They were fine before the update. There's a topic about it at Valve's forum: http://forums.steamp...ead.php?t=1265578 rbarris on page 2 has this to say We saw this bug and thought we had it fixed. One thing that affected this bug's behavior in our sleuthing was whether or not the game started up in windowed mode. Please try this - right click the "Portal" title in the Steam game list, and select Properties. In that dialog click the "Set Launch Options" button. Then in that text field just put this text: -windowed This will cause the game to start up in windowed mode (which you can then change back to FS using Options->Video tab) the -windowed trick worked for me. On page 7 alfred posted We have a fix for the black portal issue in testing, we hope to have it out real soon.
Post #326,261 by Meerkat 5/14/10 10:32:01 PM Reply	Yay, thanks! They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
Post #326,491 by SpiceWare 5/18/10 2:18:47 PM Reply	Played it last night and it looks like they fixed it.

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