Half-Life 2 Forum

Since Steam made this available for Mac... is it better just to use that version? Or does PC version run better on a mac using the CrossOver games?

This really depends. If you have an older computer CXG is the way to go, if I remember correctly, the ported source games force the user to DX9. Valve also seems to be having some problems with the new 10.6.4 update.

I have an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, and this is not supported on the Mac version of Steam's source games, even though the games play just fine through crossover.

I have an unsupported video card, (quiet old), but the steam version works quiet decently (even though cxg works better)

robin wrote:

I have an unsupported video card, (quite old), but the steam
version works quite decently (even though cxg works better)

😉

Steam won't even let me try to play the mac version of source games. It gives me a warning message saying basically "sorry, your video card is not supported."

I'll stick with crossover.

I tried both using an older macbook pro. The Mac version was very choppy and some of the animations were absent. The crossover games version worked well.