Steam for Mac is already pretty great and getting better, but Valve Software’s Rob Barris says that we can expect performance improvements in the near future thanks to driver updates from ATI, NVIDIA and Apple themselves.
“Performance is going to improve as drivers are updated,” Barris said “I would expect modest improvements in short term and larger ones in longer term. No, I can’t put dates on them.”
“We are making a lot of progress is identifying specific issues that need work inside the game and inside OpenGL and drivers. Apple, ATI and NVIDIA are all involved.”
Although most of the games that have been released on Steam for far have run just fine on the Mac, they don’t yet boast Windows 7’s speed of performance. Not a big deal now, but as newer and more sophisticated games are brought over to Steam for Mac, the gulf between Windows 7 and Mac performance is only going to get greater. It’s great to see improvements are on the horizon.
[via Crunchgear]
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