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[Teh_Ocelot]

I have a friend who's got a Mac and wants to get ME3 but isn't sure if the game is compatible.

 

I know that you can download and run Windows on a Mac, perhaps he could download the game to his Windows hard drive and boot into it and play? Also, would he have to use Steam?

 

Any of you that have any ideas or experience with this feel free to drop some knowledge b/c I have no idea.

[Salarian Jesus]

 

 

...sorry.

[Teh_Ocelot]

 

 

...sorry.

LOL nailed it. 

[larsdt]

Haven't tried ME3 but I will assume you can. If the Mac is based on the Intel platform, you won't suffer any significant performance loss using Boot Camp.

 

Boot Camp supports most external Windows devices  (cameras, printers etc.) if they are connected via USB. Windows (and subsequently Windows software) has to be installed on the Mac's internal HD and HDs cannot be set up in RAID.

 

I suggest giving it a go. Windows on Mac runs on its own partition so you won't risk messing up your Mac software/documents by doing some tinkering. You might need to find the Windows drivers for network devices.

[Teh_Ocelot]

Haven't tried ME3 but I will assume you can. If the Mac is based on the Intel platform, you won't suffer any significant performance loss using Boot Camp.

 

Boot Camp supports most external Windows devices  (cameras, printers etc.) if they are connected via USB. Windows (and subsequently Windows software) has to be installed on the Mac's internal HD and HDs cannot be set up in RAID.

 

I suggest giving it a go. Windows on Mac runs on its own partition so you won't risk messing up your Mac software/documents by doing some tinkering. You might need to find the Windows drivers for network devices.

Yeah he's definitely running an Intel chip set, it's a 2009 Mac Pro Server, so he has multiple drives already set up, and I'm like 80% sure that one of them is already running a separate Windows partition.

 

I assume Steam would be the method of downloading the game? I'm a little ignorant of the whole PC game install process...

[BloodBeforeTears]

Yeah he's definitely running an Intel chip set, it's a 2009 Mac Pro Server, so he has multiple drives already set up, and I'm like 80% sure that one of them is already running a separate Windows partition.

 

I assume Steam would be the method of downloading the game? I'm a little ignorant of the whole PC game install process...

 

I used Origin to download and install the game.  Be advised, it might not work very well if boot camp (or whatever virtualization suite you are using) cannot recognize the GPU natively (i.e. access via device drivers/direct3d)

[larsdt]

The 2009 Mac Pro's had Nvidia GT GPUs as default and ATI cards as optional. These were similar to the PC versions so hopefully they should be recognized. They also fulfill the minimum requirements for ME3. 

[Mgamerz]

Boot camp is not virtualization its literally dual boot. You will have to do this as there is no VM tech that handles GPU for the kind of DirectX performance you want.

I deal with VMs every day.

[Teh_Ocelot]

Boot camp is not virtualization its literally dual boot. You will have to do this as there is no VM tech that handles GPU for the kind of DirectX performance you want.

I deal with VMs every day.

So as long as he boots into the Windows drive, it installs correctly and all necessary drivers are installed, he should be good to go, theoretically? 

 

And yes, not that you need me to tell you this, but you're 100% right, it's literally dual boot, it's not VM of any kind b/c only one drive is running at a time...

[Mgamerz]

So as long as he boots into the Windows drive, it installs correctly and all necessary drivers are installed, he should be good to go, theoretically?

And yes, not that you need me to tell you this, but you're 100% right, it's literally dual boot, it's not VM of any kind b/c only one drive is running at a time...

I've had a friend play BF3 on a 2011 iMac before. If it is a laptop heat will be an issue.

Also yeah its pretty much windows running in a Mac chassis.

[frank_is_crank]

I assume Steam would be the method of downloading the game? I'm a little ignorant of the whole PC game install process...

Afaik ME3 comes only via Origin (or old school CD). You need origin to run the game anyway, so he can use it to install as well.

[niniendowarrior]

I have played Mass Effect 3 on Linux via Wine and have played the game to the end of the singleplayer campaign and also numerous multiplayer matches via Wine.  Seeing that Mac OSX is a distant kin of Linux and Wine does exist on Mac OSX, you might be able to get the game installed through Origin and play the game on Mac.  Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if it actually worked on OSX without the bootcamp thingy.

 

https://appdb.winehq...rsion&iId=25498

http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX

 

The other way is to use bootcamp and dual boot to Windows.

 

Good luck!

[Fuenf789]

...I'm not sure who is trolling whom, in this thread.
Mac has it own proprietary FS-> HFS /+, so those executables will only function through a VM booting with a windows FS, as mgamerz said.
I agree with mgamerz that performance will suffer with a VM acting as middleman esp
with high performance graphics.

Of course you can wipe the mac 's superior os, and slap windows os instead on the pure HW, but that will be like putting a chrysler engine in a ferrari body. (Such Mariage will be stable -though Heaven forbid).

If it's intentionally a joke thread - then then SJ's answer with ipad as mousepad is the correct answer.

The most efficient way (cost in effort/time) is to simply buy an old ps3 / windows notebook... For 150