Playing PC Games on Mac
I have two questions regarding this.
One, will Boot Camp allow you to do this? For example, will I be able to play Bioshock or Halo 2, games made only for PC, on a Mac if Windows XP/Vista and Boot Camp is installed/running?
Secondly, would the graphics chip in the Macbook be good enough or the iMac?
I wanted to know if I could do this when I get Leopard.
My specs are (for the Macbook)
2 ghz
2GB of Ram
Intel Core Duo
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kylo4] at [2007-11-11 22:01:36]
# 1 Re: Playing PC Games on Mac
Well, the MacBook is gonna struggle with higher end titles no matter what, but the iMac should handle them like a champ.
# 2 Re: Playing PC Games on Mac
The never version of parallels is not directx compatable so theoretically yes. The version I have doesn't handle it to well and not all the pixels rendered correctly for call of duty 2. I'm on a macbook pro btw. Maybe a more recent version does it better. Either way it didn't seem to handle it to well. you will have to play with low detail and resolution settings. This is probably due to the fact that you are runing 2 OSs taking up alot of RAM and the Macbook Pro's graphics card which isn't ideal.
JMG at 2007-11-15 17:56:29 >
# 3 Re: Playing PC Games on Mac
The never version of parallels is not directx compatable so theoretically yes. The version I have doesn't handle it to well and not all the pixels rendered correctly for call of duty 2. I'm on a macbook pro btw. Maybe a more recent version does it better. Either way it didn't seem to handle it to well. you will have to play with low detail and resolution settings. This is probably due to the fact that you are runing 2 OSs taking up alot of RAM and the Macbook Pro's graphics card which isn't ideal.
Virtualization has never run the games well. But the question was about bootcamp which would be booting straight into windows without OSX running at all.
# 4 Re: Playing PC Games on Mac
I was asking this because Macs have different hardware than PC's and because of Windows running on the Mac I was thinking that it wouldn't truly match the PC compatibility, hence wanting to know if they'd play fine. 2 or 3GB of Ram would definitely get me buy no doubt?
kylo4 at 2007-11-15 17:58:34 >
# 5 Re: Playing PC Games on Mac
I was asking this because Macs have different hardware than PC's and because of Windows running on the Mac I was thinking that it wouldn't truly match the PC compatibility, hence wanting to know if they'd play fine. 2 or 3GB of Ram would definitely get me buy no doubt?
Aha! you are misled. After the intel switch the hardware in a PC and a Mac are now essentially the same. In some cases it's going to be higher quality. For instance the graphics chip in the Macbook is the same as in many other "lowend", entry PC laptops. The Graphics card in the iMac is the same kind of graphics card you could potentially get in a PC desktop you would buy. The difference is that a PC is more upgradable.
There is no doubt that if Gaming is what a person wants, they should build a PC from the ground up. The PC will be the better machine, but you can get a "comparable" experience on a Mac running bootcamp.
The only difference between the hardware in a Mac and a PC now is that Macs hardware doesn't cut corners to hit a certain pricepoint.
It's the graphic card + Memory in your mac that will make the difference.
# 6 Re: Playing PC Games on Mac
cedega, darwine, and crossover will sacrifice almost no power of your mac to play pc games. us linux users know how to get around these kind of things =D. i suggest darwine though only because its just a windows compatability layer(requires no power to run)infact, im running counter-strike source right now in windowed mode on my dreamlinux comp under wine (the linux version of darwine) you should be fine using those. dont bother with boot camp.
