Has anyone run AH on an Apple computer?

[Oldman731]

Wife wants an Apple computer.  They're supposed to be able to run Windows, so I figure they should also be able to run AH in some sort of Windows mode.

Searching the forum brought me to this thread:  http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,321122.0.html

It was interesting, but didn't actually answer my question.

So...has anyone actually run AH on an Apple computer?  Ignorant minds want to know.

- oldman

[Hap]

I have happily.  That was some 4 years ago or so.  Make sure vid and sound cards memory beefy enough to play the game.  Along with the CPU of course.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Just know that any cheap end Macs will not have the hardware required for gaming. iMacs are more like laptops hardware wise and it's practically impossible to upgrade one.

[Brooke]

I've run it on a Mac that has dual-boot, with both the Mac OS and Windows installed (and ran AH on Windows).

It ran OK.  It is an old Mac, so the graphics card is very low performance by today's standards (worse than one of today's $50 graphics cards), resulting in having to turn all the graphics settings down.

If you have a newer Mac it might be possible to have a decent graphics card.

You have to install the dual-boot software, and then you have to do a Windows install.  I'm not sure if that is easy or if takes some reading on the Web.

[Skuzzy]

Apple has documentation for installing BOOTCAMP and getting it all setup to run Windows.  Look in the Apple help system.

By the way, even the latest Apple computers are still a couple of generations behind the video card curve.  Apple has always been behind there.  I believe the current, top of the line, iMac desktop has an NVidia 775M GPU w/2GB of video RAM.

The Macbook and Macbook Pros have an Intel video chip in them.

I do not believe you can upgrade the video cards either.  Could be wrong on that one, but it used to be that way.

[Brooke]

Yep, Macs are very poor on performance/price for gaming.  My feeling is that they are very poor on price/performance for everything. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Apple has documentation for installing BOOTCAMP and getting it all setup to run Windows.  Look in the Apple help system.

By the way, even the latest Apple computers are still a couple of generations behind the video card curve.  Apple has always been behind there.  I believe the current, top of the line, iMac desktop has an NVidia 775M GPU w/2GB of video RAM.

The Macbook and Macbook Pros have an Intel video chip in them.

I do not believe you can upgrade the video cards either.  Could be wrong on that one, but it used to be that way.

Intel + Geforce dual graphics, Skuzzy.

[PJ_Godzilla]

Don't believe the hype. You can easily run windows via boot camp on any modern Mac. Also aces high. I run it flawlessly on two nodes of my home LAN -which, incidentally, also give me the capability to do in-house 1v1 in the da, a capability I'm hoping to use over the tg holiday this year.

I'm skeptical of most of the windows users performance claims regarding graphics, although it is true that most post power pic macs do not offer upgrades for the graphics cards.

[zack1234]

My rig runs everything in AH and rof at 60fsp?

[Oldman731]

Thanks for the input, everyone.  We'll see how things turn out!

- oldman