Play as a member of one of three character classes who is tasked by Syl, a sage who has lost her mentor, Alric somewhere in a mine beneath the city of Torchlight. Like a prettier, smaller version of "Diablo II", this action RPG manages to take most of the good aspects of overhead hack and slash games and add a few original touches which make it fairly addictive. Here's a roundup of some of the most popular titles that are now available for OS X. Heck, Steam got the right idea with porting over to the Mac, so have others. Quite a few titles have been ported over to OS X in the past year or so, and it looks as though more and more developers are starting to realize that PC gamer should also include the Mac users.
The days of attempting to play PC-only titles in a virtual machine are (thankfully) starting to be a thing of the past. Despite that, the world of non-console gaming doesn't quite reflect this change yet, as evidenced by the fact that the term "PC gaming" is still generally the preferred nomenclature without actually applying to the OS X. And while these disciplines still account for a large portion of Mac people, Apple has gained quite a good deal more of the personal computer market share in recent years. Steam is the best thing to happen to non-console, non-mobile gaming in a couple of decades.It used to be that Mac users were a relatively small group, mostly composed of A/V nerds and graphic designers. If the resolution of the host display is set in-game to the same as the client, that's that much less work the client has to do. It sounds like as much of the work, including graphical work, as possible should be done on the host. Remember, the client can be a low-performance device, so long as it can sufficiently play the stream, as it doesn't handle rendering the game's graphics. While it would be feasible to do this on a headless server with a beefy processor and minimal graphical power, you're almost certainly going to get better results if a decent enough GPU is used on the host.
Ideally, the hosting machine would need to be powerful enough to play the game and to encode the stream simultaneously.
Does the hosting machine need powerful graphics or would a headless Xeon PC server work well? I ask as I am looking at getting one anyway to host opensim and that only being a database doesn't require much in the way of a GPU the graphics being handled by the client viewer.
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