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Everything installed quite quickly except for, Steam and the game itself. Being a Mac user, everything is usually fast and this was one downside. Steam took forever to install, then, took almost 5 minutes to initialize the update for Steam. The software installation took about ten minutes. Sure, I am complaining however, it takes the same time on Windows so I guess Mac users shouldnt get any special treatment on this 😋

Sorry but I can't help feeling that this was one of the most meaning less post I've ever seen. And my the second :D

Im sorry...but im new to this advocate thing and dunno really what to put when testing games...figured id just put that it installed but slowly. whatever :P

Daniel Frasca wrote:

Everything installed quite quickly except for, Steam and the game
itself. Being a Mac user, everything is usually fast and this was
one downside. Steam took forever to install, then, took almost 5
minutes to initialize the update for Steam. The software
installation took about ten minutes. Sure, I am complaining
however, it takes the same time on Windows so I guess Mac users
shouldnt get any special treatment on this 😋

Hi,

The installation of the Steam GUI (and Steam hoisted games) requires a number
of files to be downloaded as part of the install process - the speed of such types
of installation is directly proportional to your internet download speed...

Cheers!

Daniel Frasca wrote:

Im sorry...but im new to this advocate thing and dunno really what
to put when testing games...figured id just put that it installed
but slowly. whatever :P

Well don't let me hold you back from posting. Any kind of posts!

But as you said in your first post: ~ that it takes some time even in a native windows enviroment to install and use steam.

Based on that you might guess it will not be any differance in a emulated enviroment except it might run even more slow than in the native enviroment.