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Playing a windows game on a Mac?

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Enagonios, Nov 12, 2007.

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    [​IMG] The question obviously shows that I'm a computer idiot...

    but I'm getting a Mac as my laptop and I just wanted to know if there's any way I could still play my PS:T on it. heh. :rolleyes:
     
    Enagonios, Nov 12, 2007
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    cool, thanks colthrun, ill take a look through this.
     
    Enagonios, Nov 12, 2007
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    Ziad I speak in rebuses Veteran

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    Colthrun's suggestion is the best I believe. The alternative would be to install VMWare or something similar, but having a proper Windows installation is likely to cause far less headaches.
     
    Ziad, Nov 18, 2007
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    Actually, VMWare might be better for PS:T.
     
    Taza, Nov 18, 2007
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    My primary computer is a MacBook, and I have Windows XP installed on a seperate partition on it.

    I use both VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop to run my Windows partition as a virtual machine in OS X, and imho VMWare is the more stable of the two. I've tried playing BG Tutu on both of them, and the performance is fine, though it's noticeably more sluggish than if I ran it directly in Windows.

    I'm pretty sure that PS:T will run fine, but I'd say it's better to just boot into Windows if you want to play any Windows games. Saves you the overhead of the virtual machine, and you get better performance.
     
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