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Title: Mac bootcamp question
Post by: Snapbean on May 01, 2010, 09:38:29 AM

Hi fellas I'm finally trying to come back to the game after two long years away.  Setting it up on my Mac though.  In the initial steps of setting up bootcamp you are supposed to set up a partition size...does anyone know how big the partition should be for Windows/AH2 etc.?  Also, should I install the NTFS or FAT format?  Thanks!

Title: Re: Mac bootcamp question
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on May 01, 2010, 11:31:25 AM

Required partition size depends greatly on the OS you plan to install. For XP and AH + couple other games, 30 gb is enough. For Vista/7 even 40gb is going to fill up very fast so I'd make it 60. You can try to make vista/7 smaller by disabling volume shadow copy, system restore, deleting backup system files after updates etc. but it's far easyer just to reserve enough space to start with.

Title: Re: Mac bootcamp question
Post by: Denholm on May 01, 2010, 04:03:25 PM

I'd format the partition using NTFS.

Title: Re: Mac bootcamp question
Post by: Snapbean on May 01, 2010, 05:26:18 PM

Thanks fellas.  I partitioned 32 GB, installed XP home edition with NTFS format and the game works great!

Title: Re: Mac bootcamp question
Post by: Denholm on May 01, 2010, 06:52:24 PM

Glad it works.

Title: Re: Mac bootcamp question
Post by: Hap on May 12, 2010, 10:36:43 AM

Den,

Glad it works.  Been using my iMac with AH for 4 years now.