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Offline Stang

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Mac's
« on: August 14, 2014, 06:54:54 PM »
How we'll does Aces High run on a Mac?

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Re: Mac's
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2014, 07:03:48 PM »
As well as The Bungles play in Cleveland  :neener: :neener: :neener:

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Re: Mac's
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2014, 07:16:31 PM »
Mac?  What's a Mac? :noid
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Re: Mac's
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2014, 07:22:34 PM »
I edit a lot of my posts.  Get used to it.

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Re: Mac's
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2014, 07:28:31 PM »
How we'll does Aces High run on a Mac?

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Like nailing jello to a tree.

Mac's are for drawing shiz.  You must be a golfer...that's not even a sport.  It falls clearly into the "hobby" category and so does computing so we have a pattern.
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Re: Mac's
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2014, 08:18:26 PM »
As well as The Bungles play in Cleveland  :neener: :neener: :neener:

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Re: Mac's
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2014, 08:20:47 PM »
Like nailing jello to a tree.

Mac's are for drawing shiz.  You must be a golfer...that's not even a sport.  It falls clearly into the "hobby" category and so does computing so we have a pattern.

"Like nailing jello to a tree."

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You owe me a soda.

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Re: Mac's
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2014, 09:04:18 PM »
I run ah easily on a couple of minis that live on my home LAN. Both run windows 7 via boot camp. I run trackir as well.

Don't bother trying to run ah via VMware. I experimented with it but the behavior was slow and flakey. It's best to run it native in windows. Mavericks is what I'm running on both aces high nodes. It handles windows 7 easily.

I always use Samsung monitors as well, good sized ones. i've got sammies all over the house, in sizes from 20 to a couple of 55s. Anecdotally, I was always first to spot cons with my old squad - one of my windows machine using squaddies joined once and didn't know how I could see the stuff I could see at range. I attribute it to the combination of monitor and graphics cards but am not steeped in the technical side of those computers. The macs are closed arch anyway.
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Re: Mac's
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2014, 09:29:35 PM »
it runs great on mine.  27 inch imac with windows 7 loaded.  no issues.

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Re: Mac's
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2014, 09:46:39 PM »
Killn  go hold your breath for 6 months again and miss this season.

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So you have to have windows 7 on it to work?

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Pittsburgh sucks, no point running a Mac it looks like.

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Re: Mac's
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2014, 08:54:01 AM »
You don't have to run windows 7. I used to run ah on windows Xp sp2 but, since its now obsolete, I updated. I get all my crappy windows software via ford so office and the OS always cost like 9.95 for either side; windows or Mac. That's about what windows software is worth, I might add.

I assume your windows machines can run Mac OS , right? Haaaaw, haaaaw... I kill myself with this stuff.
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Re: Mac's
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2014, 09:16:07 AM »
AH ran just fine on my iMac.

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Re: Mac's
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2014, 09:44:10 AM »
Mac's and PC's run on the same hardware these days. Only the OS and some peripheral stuff are different. Install Windows on a separate partition or use multiboot and get a USB PC keyboard, mouse and joystick and you shouldn't have any issues.
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Re: Mac's
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2014, 10:08:27 AM »
The current crop of Mac's do not have the best video cards in them and they are not upgradeable.  All the lappy Mac's use an Intel video chip.  The best desktop Mac has an NVidia 775M with 2GB of video RAM.  Not bad, but not great either.

I think you have to get into a Mac Pro model before you can upgrade them, but they typically come with a workstation video card, not a game video card.
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Re: Mac's
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2014, 03:47:27 AM »
The current crop of Mac's do not have the best video cards in them and they are not upgradeable.  All the lappy Mac's use an Intel video chip.  The best desktop Mac has an NVidia 775M with 2GB of video RAM.  Not bad, but not great either.

I think you have to get into a Mac Pro model before you can upgrade them, but they typically come with a workstation video card, not a game video card.

I don't know about the vary latest models but my late 2013 Macbook pro has dual graphics. It uses the Intel Iris pro chip on regular desktop use and switches to Geforce 750M when running something graphics intensive.

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  Chipset Model:   NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
  Type:   GPU
  Bus:   PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:   x8
  VRAM (Total):   2048 MB
  Vendor:   NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:   0x0fe9
  Revision ID:   0x00a2
  ROM Revision:   3765
  gMux Version:   4.0.8 [3.2.8]
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Color LCD:
  Display Type:   Retina LCD
  Resolution:   2880 x 1800
  Retina:   Yes
  Pixel Depth:   32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Main Display:   Yes
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Built-In:   Yes
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