Boot Camp on a Mac Pro

[flyndung]

any issues with running AH3 on a mac pro using boot camp? i just rebuilt this beast

2 x 3.33ghz HEX CORE X5860's (12 cores)
24GB DDR3 ECC
120GB SSD
3TB RAID 0 (3 x 1TB)
3GB 7950

[alkali]

MacBook Air here, with Bootcamp running Win10 on an USB drive running AH3 without a hitch.
Best <S>

[oboe]

MacBook Air here, with Bootcamp running Win10 on an USB drive running AH3 without a hitch.
Best <S>

Alkali,

Where did you learn how to install Win 10 to a USB stick?  Do you just stick it in a USB slot and restart the MacBook?  What kind of frame rates are you seeing in AH3 at default settings?   Pretty cool that you can do that. 

[Skuzzy]

You might need to cut back a couple of graphic options with the 7950 video card.  I have that card in one of my home computers.  With no one around, offline, it will get right at 70FPS (65 to 70).  I figure in a crowd it is going to drop a bit low.

[alkali]

Oboe,
It's not exactly a stick, rather a 1Tb Seagate USB hard drive. I didn't want to partition my MB Air hard drive to try and begin with AH3 and virtualising wouldn't do on my system so I mused around and found these helpful discussion topics:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5431182?tstart=0
https://bleeptobleep.blogspot.fr/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external.html
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/218105/is-it-possible-to-use-boot-camp-with-windows-10-from-an-external-hdd
Not overly complicated: I got it all right from the outset without having any serious IT background and it works quite flawlessly.
Performance-wise that's no sports car (the graphics card hurts indeed) : online with some graphic options left out and a hundred or so people flying I barely make it to 25 fps. Manageable, but not much more. I might end up setting up a dedicated Win10 PC for AH3 somewhere down the line but this will do for the occasional flying I can have nowadays.
Best <S>
Marc

[oboe]

Thanks Akali!

My son might be interested in doing this with his MacBook.

[Vulcan]

One word of warning, this was back a few years running bootcamp on the big imacs so this might have changed: Apple never provided power management drivers for Windows - so bootcamping Windows usually involves the Mac running at full tit - i.e. hot. So keep an eye on the heat side of things.

[flyndung]

One word of warning, this was back a few years running bootcamp on the big imacs so this might have changed: Apple never provided power management drivers for Windows - so bootcamping Windows usually involves the Mac running at full tit - i.e. hot. So keep an eye on the heat side of things.

as far as my mac pro goes it was built for removing heat and staying cool, the macbooks and imacs may have more issues.