Mac Gaming

Update: I’ve posted my settings and impressions.

I am currently about four hours away from installing Dragon Age: Origins on my iMac — again. I pre-ordered the game from Impulse for 20% off (yay!) and downloaded it yesterday only to discover that transferring games from one computer to another doesn’t work that well in Impulse (unlike with Steam, Direct2Drive, GamersGate, or GOG.com). What I found out is that, in Impulse, you need to choose the Download and Archive option in order to download the game on one PC and install it on another. Otherwise the game installs by default and, if you try to archive the game afterwards, the archive is OS-dependent and won’t install on a computer with a different version of Windows. So, I basically wasted 14 hours and 8GB of my monthly bandwidth yesterday. Hopefully the second time’s the charm.