Can i play pc games?

Nonsense

Right so I have one of those windows emulator kinda things ya know were windows installs on your mac and was wondering can I play pc games if I install them on it? i just dont wanna go out and buy one and then it not to work? Probably a stupid question but thanx in advance...

Creamy Goodness

if you have an intel mac, you can install windows xp with bootcamp and play pc games.

for macbook since you don't have a dedicated graphics card you'll be sticking to oldish games like unreal tournament/half-life/quake3

macbook pro probably goes a bit further as they have x1600 cards in them if i'm correct.

Cabaal

I recommend Starcraft which can be played in OSX and Windows

Dont be at yourself

A lot of the big Windows games are also ported to OSX.

www.apple.com/games/

TerrorFirmer

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

A lot of the big Windows games are also ported to OSX.

www.apple.com/games/

Best bet is still to install bootcamp really. Although as Cremo said the basic macbook has the gma950 integrated graphics solution restricting you to somewhat older titles from 2002-ish at decent playable levels. And again, yes the MB Pro has the X1600 will will run essentially anything out right now.

edit: Wolfenstein Enemy Territory runs fine on the GMA950 and there is a mac download available, it's all you'd ever need!

Nonsense

yeh I have a mac pro and I'm looking to play Black and White two...loved de first...Anyway I have virtual pc will that be any good??? Whats this bootcamp ting anyway...

Creamy Goodness

Nonsense wrote:

yeh I have a mac pro and I'm looking to play Black and White two...loved de first...Anyway I have virtual pc will that be any good??? Whats this bootcamp ting anyway...

bootcamp essentially allows you to dual boot.

this means you can choose when you start up your laptop which operating system you want to load.

Mac OSX
Windows XP
Linux variant
etc.

monkeyfudge

You won't get any joy out of Virtual PC.... I've always found it runs like a dog.

Boot camp is the way to go... or I've heard good things about Parallels Desktop

Let me know how you get on as my XPS laptop died on my recently and I was thinking of replacing it with a MacBook Pro instead for gaming.

ZENER

Nonsense wrote:

yeh I have a mac pro

You spent 2.5 grand on a computer with an alien (to you ?) OS to play games ???

Firstly Virtual PC won't run on any Intel Mac, it was built for PowerPC Macs.
Secondly - even then playing games would be impossible. Parallels Desktop will run XP and let you run Office etc. but 3D games . . . forget it ! To play games you will need Bootcamp which lets the Mac boot into Windwoes XP and directly access the graphics and sound hardware.

ZEN

Nonsense

No spent so much cause Im doin multimedia and we do all our **** on macs so yeh Im still gettinused to some of it but others im decent enough on (illustrator, director, photoshop etc). Thanx for de advice...bootcamp it is