GroundCombo

I'm resisting the urge to refresh every few minutes to check if they've opened up. Many of my regular OTs are already up there (like the indie dev thread) and I want iiiin. Nice to browse and see that it's picking up though.

I'd be willing to give this a shot (hey, long-time listener, long-time lurker of GAF and GB here - I've seen some familiar names in this thread) but I'm trying to keep my Discords to a minimum. Hopefully they can open it up soon enough.

One more for the list, using a Macbook Pro. Occasionally I've been able to watch some TNTs without problems, but that's a really rare exception. I'm watching yesterday's NFS TNT right now and it's stuttering all the way through - and to reiterate, it's not anything to do with insufficient bandwidth and buffering, but looks like more of an encoding/decoding issue. I've tried Opera, Safari, Chrome and Firefox and it's the same with every browser. Really annoying.

Throwing out some more data points... I gave Parallels Desktop 6 a shot (using the trial version), and the performance is even worse than with Wine/Crossover. I loaded the endgame quicksave and it was practically unplayable in the regular 3D view. So, I gave up and made a Boot Camp XP partition; now Civ runs beautifully. I have a mix of Medium/Low settings and everything was smooth at least up to late Renaissance Era. I didn't try to go any higher because the graphics are already good enough for me and I like smoothness. Guess I'll have to do with the dedicated Civ partition until they release the Mac version.

I have a Macbook Pro with 9400M/9600M and I got Civ 5 to run with the SteamPC app mentioned on 2k forums. I had to set terrain overlay to Medium (to avoid a gray map) and everything else to Low, but the performance is still... not great, when you get into the late game with lots of cities and units. I had to frequently switch to the strategic 2D view because zooming to another unit would turn into a horrible slideshow - good thing the option exists. Surprisingly it ran even slightly worse when I switched to 9600M.

I'd love to hear some performance comparisons between the Wine/Crossover method, VMWare/Parallels and native Bootcamp.

The small screen and limited controls make some things a bit harder in the DS version, like managing your army stacks, but it's still quite playable. It also has better post-game statistics and a replay feature, which the bigger versions don't have at all. An incredibly addicting game on all platforms.

I agree that linking to specific games is silly, but the concept is useful. I just submitted an article about various types of lag; we'll see what happens. There should probably be some sort of a "general concept" category.

Should we check if the image already exists in the specified galleries before clicking approve/disapprove, and if so, is the correct procedure to disapprove with a comment? There are a lot of submissions that have already been added.