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[Old Roots]

Catamount, on 11 January 2012 - 08:00 AM, said:

You see, if you had a PC, you'd just install it and play, because PCs just work!

*snort*

[Dubby]

Yeah, unfortunately I switched from PC a long time ago! Sometimes I ask myself, why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?

I've used windows on my Mac before, but it's super slow and doesn't work well for gaming. My best hope will be if these guys decide to use Onlive, or some other sort of cloud game server.

I still have my Battletech books to sate my appetite, for the time being...

[Catamount]

Old Roots, on 11 January 2012 - 08:11 AM, said:

*snort*

It's okay, I know that deep-down, you're snorting with approval

[Old Roots]

Catamount, on 11 January 2012 - 08:38 AM, said:

It's okay, I know that deep-down, you're snorting with approval

You're entirely right. PCs are beautiful.

[Stahlseele]

You want to play?
Don't get a Mac.
Or get a NEW Mac.
On that, you can install Win7 without Problem.
And the Home Premium should be available for way below 100$ by now i think . .


And while PC's CAN be beautifull . . usually they are stubborn pieces of junk that don't want to work the way you want it to half of the time . .

Yes, i work as Technician, why do you ask? <.<

Edited by stahlseele, 11 January 2012 - 10:45 AM.

[Kyle Polulak]

I use a Mac as my primary machine. Using an Apple computer, unless it's over 5 years old, will not hamper your ability to play PC games.

If you haven't heard of it yet, (Bootcamp)

http://en.wikipedia....Camp_(software)
http://www.apple.com...patibility.html

[lyonn]

Kyle Polulak, on 11 January 2012 - 10:58 AM, said:

I use a Mac as my primary machine.

You play on a mac you're braver than we thought!

[Jacob]

Kyle Polulak, on 11 January 2012 - 10:58 AM, said:

I use a Mac as my primary machine.

Good grief someone stop this madman!

[Catamount]

This doesn't really help anyone who already owns their machines, but just for future reference for our Mac users here: if you want to game and use a Mac, it's probably far better to buy a $600 Mac Mini, and a $1200-$1600 gaming PC, than, say, a $2499 Mac Pro (or buy a Mini and spend $600 on a gaming PC and end up better than a $1200 iMac). You'll spend the same or less and have more capability.


It's true that with the Imac case, you'd have to buy a screen, and maybe you'd have to spend $100 or so more vs the $1199 Imac, but you really would end up with a much more powerful gaming machine, and it only slants further and further towards doing this as you compare to higher and higher priced Macs (for the price of a Macpro, sans a Mac Mini, I could build a gaming machine 3-4 times as powerful, and that basically applies for the $1499 Imac too).

Edited by Catamount, 11 January 2012 - 02:17 PM.

[Vulpesveritas]

Something you might consider is a cheap sub $500 laptop PC if you can afford it with an AMD A-series processor. It -should- be able to play the game on low/medium settings.

Just a thought.

Course, if you can't afford that well... can't give any more advice than already has been said.

[Volume]

Between Bootcamp on an Intel-based Mac, or WINE (which is much improved in recent years (and legal!)), you might be able to get MWO working on a Mac. Don't count yourself out before the fight's begun. I'm sure some of us will fight tooth and nail with our hardware to get this baby to run.

[Dubby]

I guess I'm just tired of these software and game companies. Hardware doesn't matter anymore, and software needs to start adapting to whatever computer is on my dang table.

[Kaemon]

I run dual boot on a 24" imac and have zero issues (wife's machine is much newer than mine).

for ease of use after install try http://refit.sourceforge.net/ makes the OS boot choice ***** proof.

I'm not advocating buying Appletosh (I think they're quite expensive for the hardware you get and I'm not into paying for style that sits in my basement all day long) but it's an easy way to get both without issue.

Bootcamp is very easy to setup, just pay attention to what partition you select.

[Volume]

Kyle Polulak, on 11 January 2012 - 10:58 AM, said:

I use a Mac as my primary machine. Using an Apple computer, unless it's over 5 years old, will not hamper your ability to play PC games.

If you haven't heard of it yet, (Bootcamp)

http://en.wikipedia....Camp_(software)
http://www.apple.com...patibility.html

Please note, any Intel-based Mac should run this game if you have a Windows partition.

The quote above is from one of our administrators here.

http://mwomercs.com/...2118#entry82118

^ This is a link to the thread. It appears that many Mac users with recent computers will be able to run Windows on them, and anything older probably wouldn't run CryEngine3 very well regardless. Just because it doesn't run on OSX doesn't mean it won't work on a Mac. ^^;

Edited by Volume, 12 January 2012 - 11:22 PM.

[Gremlich Johns]

@XxDRxDEATHxX

PCs running Windows OS7 are every bit as good, and much cheaper, than a Mac to run drafting/CAD programs on. The thinking that Macs are better for everything but gaming is a thing of the past. If anything, a PC platform running OS 7 64-bit is better because the OS is really stable and you can customize how you want the computer to run the way you want: 16-32 GB of RAM will speed up CAD rendering, a minimum 1GB vid card(s) setup that can run several monitors - and you are still running a cheaper rig. That plus you don't have to send it away for weeks in case it does something funny - chances are, if you build it yourself, you can repair it yourself.

But, you can indeed dual-boot OS 7 on a Mac running OS X if you absolutely HAVE to have a Mac. They are good machines, but I'd run Linux instead and build a computer to run it myself.

One thing about Mac OS, if you upgrade to OS X Lion and you have a previous windows partition on your Mac, Lion will overwrite however much of the OS 7 partition it needs without telling you it's taking the drive space (and always the part with the MBR) away. Sooooo, anything you had in that windows partition, games, images, papers - will be gone.

Edited by Gremlich Johns, 26 January 2012 - 07:13 AM.

[Catamount]

Dubby, on 12 January 2012 - 12:25 PM, said:

I guess I'm just tired of these software and game companies. Hardware doesn't matter anymore, and software needs to start adapting to whatever computer is on my dang table.

And why should software companies by concerned with what's running on YOUR table?

They care about what users overall are making use of, and since anyone who's spending the money for a Mac that's even passable at gaming (anywhere from $1200 for something that's barely capable to $2700 for something that's only so-so) won't even consider $100 Windows license a drop in the bucket, there's no reason to try to transition over to OpenGL to run the game natively on OSX

Edited by Catamount, 26 January 2012 - 08:35 AM.

[BlastoffMoonMan]

Hey i keep trying to finalize my computer for beta, but i currently have a pc that doesn't have internet but i have a macbook with wifi, can i run beta for lan/practice and give you me feedback PLZ? I really want this game!

[Gendou]

[JabberJon]

I have a MacBook Pro 17 that's bootcamped into Win 7 64 and I can assure you, bootcamping is the same as having a window's PC. I have yet to have any problems with it, my wife uses it to game full time and I use the mac side for school. Everything that is PC only works on that, it acts and functions exactly like a PC when using the WIndows partition, so you shouldn't have any problems.

[WVAnonymous]

I appreciate the live/unlocked thread. I own Macs for professional reasons. It's a) much cheaper for me to buy Windows 7 and drop it on a newish core i7 iMac than to buy a Windows PC and b ) I'd have to figure out where to put the darn thing. I'm sure this is true for some large-ish number of people who already have iMacs. Also a 27" screen is nice.

Edited by WVAnonymous, 13 July 2012 - 11:43 AM.