Turbine Release MAC Client For DDO

Turbine had released the Mac client for Lord of the Rings Online a while ago. Today, they've announced the new Mac client for another popular MMORPG; Dungeons & Dragons Online. Clear indication of Turbine's desire to bring in Mac gamers, the new Mac client for Dungeons & Dragons Online is now available for the live servers. Continue reading for the details.

Dungeons & Dragons Online is now available on Mac.

Mac gamers have not received any love from game developers in a decade. There hasn't been many Mac compatible MMOs if you don't count the browser based games. We won't even go into the fact that the case is even worse for Linux users. Today we can hope that it's about to change. Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online's developer Turbine is inviting all Mac users to its fantasy MMORPGs. Firs, if you remember this, Turbine had announced its first Mac compatible MMORPG; Lord of the Rings Online last month. 

Dungeons & Dragons Online is now available on Apple Mac

A few hours ago, Turbine announced that the new Mac client for DDO is now available for download. The Mac client is not some kind of emulation either. The DDO Mac client is a native OSX client.

So what is the DDO Mac client? The Mac client is a version of the DDO game that runs natively on the Apple Mac operating system. The client supports OSX Lion (10.7) and OSX Mountain Lion (10.8). Limited functionality is confirmed for 10.7 and 10.8. 

Turbine also released the General Requirements for Dungeons & Dragons Online for Mac:

Processor: 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor w/3MB on-chip shared L3 cache
Note: Power PCs are not supported
Memory: 2GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory
Storage: 500GB (7200 rpm) hard drive – or – 256GB flash storage
Graphics:
Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor with 288MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
13-inch MacBook Pro Specifications

Processor: 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor w/3MB L3 cache
Memory: 4GB of 1600MHz DDR3 memory
Storage: 500GB (5400 rpm) hard drive
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000; NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display Specifications

Processor: 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor w/6MB shared L3 cache
Memory: 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L onboard memory
Storage: 256GB flash storage
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000; NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 512MB of GDDR5 memory
Mac Mini Specifications

Processor: 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor w/3MB on-chip shared L3 cache
Memory: 2GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory
Storage: 500GB flash storage
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor with 288MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
iMac Specifications

Processor: 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with 6MB on-chip shared L3 cache
Memory: 4GB (two 2GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 memory
Storage: 500GB (7200 rpm) hard drive
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory
What are the differences between the PC and Mac versions?

Rendering: The Mac client uses OpenGL for rendering, instead of DirectX. OpenGL renders all DirectX 9 content at ultra-high resolution, however features implemented using DirectX 10 and 11 will not be available in the initial release of the Mac client. 

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