Aspyr Media Game Report--Quake 4 for the Mac with Multi-processor Support Out Soon and Universal Binaries for Recent Titles
Aspyr has been moving the SMP (multi-processor) support for Quake 4 from the beta patch released for Windows to the OS X version. Their initial work has shown amazing results, and they hope to have the dual processor aware version of Quake 4 Mac ready to release soon. According to Aspyr, historically it has been difficult for many games to get a speed boost from dual processors, but having access to a very well engineered codebase that is SMP aware on the PC has really helped in this case.
Also, keep your eyes open for the soon-to-be-released Call of Duty 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization IV and more announcements of great titles coming to the Mac from Aspyr. We're waiting for Call of Duty 2, the sequal to our favorite shooter Call of Duty, that was introduced first on Microsoft's Xbox.
Universal binaries are coming for many recent Aspyr games. The last month has seen lots of progress in our Macintosh development efforts on Intel Macs noted Aspyr. Final testing is winding up on Universal patches for The Sims 2 and Civilization 3 Complete, and our first in-the-box Universal game, Quake 4. Having completed a thorough test of all our older games on Intel Macs, we'll now move to some of the other titles. Some of the games most likely to have Universal updates are Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, SimCity 4, Call of Duty (ed. note: WOOHOO!), and Command & Conquer Generals. [Bill Fox]
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