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Help with universal access on mac I play tf2 on mac and I can't figure out how to get the universal access on. So I searched alot and all of them say to go to system preferences and then it says to go to universal access.
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Like a dream. Every bit as well as they do on the PC version, as a matter of fact. Granted, most Macs are not going to have video hardware quite as advanced as what you’ll find on many PCs. But our test 17-inch MacBook Pro plowed through the 3D-oriented Portal on maximum details with no problems, and the lighter-weight Torchlight played smoothly at full settings even during scenes filled with animation. Judging from these titles it’s your hardware—not the software—that will determine your performance on Steam for Mac, just as is true on the PC.
There was one small hitch: If you want to use the Shift-Tab overlay for hooking into the Steam community while playing, you need to turn on the “Enable access for assistive devices” option in the Universal Access panel. (Whenever you start a game, you’ll be reminded to do this.) In every other way, Steam for Mac is everything we hoped it would be, and for the first time in a long while we found ourselves excited about the prospect of playing games on a Mac. Steam definitely has the potential of revolutionizing the way games are distributed and played on the Mac, just as it’s done for the PC. But for that to thoroughly happen, it needs more and better games and—dare we hope?—either Mac-only or Mac-optimized titles that won’t feel like just warmed-over PC offerings. A somewhat more Mac-friendly interface, one that doesn’t require quite so much Windows-style maneuvering, would also help improve the overall experience.
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But the platform is still very new, and there’s plenty of time to build up the libraries and work out the kinks. When Valve does—and we have little doubt it will—Steam will be just as formidable a force on Macs as it currently is on PCs.
We’re not sure that its presence will be enough to turn the tides of popularity in Apple’s favor, but it will strip away the bragging rights of many a PC owner who’ll now have to come up with a better answer to why his computer is better. From here on out, the Mac is a gaming underdog no more.
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