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Help Virtual box, parallels 5?

FutureTechHope

FutureTechHope

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Hi,
I want to play a few games on my MAC but there's no good game on MAC.

I want to to play ARMA 2 and was wondering if I could play this game on virtual box or parallels?

(Parallels 5 and Virtual box hopefully don't create another partition?)
 
You should play that game via Windows via Boot Camp, as that game requires GPU power, which you can't get via a VM.

MRoogle will give you thousands of threads on installing Windows (how and why and what version and so on) via Boot Camp.
 
You'll definitely not want to play ARMA 2 in a virtual environment (or really any game I imagine). You'll have to install BootCamp; also that 7300GT won't really run ARMA 2 as it's under the minimum requirements.
 
Aw crap,

Bootcamp creates a partition though right? Does it take a lot of space?

Should I just change computer? I should increase my ram and change video card.
 
FutureTechHope said:
Aw crap,

Bootcamp creates a partition though right? Does it take a lot of space?

Should I just change computer? I should increase my ram and change video card.
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Yes it does; and you determine how big that partition is.

If you ask me yes you should change computers; ARMA 2 is an very demanding game.
 
FutureTechHope said:
What would you recommend? PC or MAC? Specs?

Any game recommendations with my current specs?
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You'll want a decently current PC (Quad Core, 4GB+ of RAM, at least higher end nVidia 200 series or ATI 4000 series running Win 7 x64).

Don't really know, that 7300GT is really weak.
 
DesmoPilot said:
You'll want a decently current PC (Quad Core, 4GB+ of RAM, at least higher end nVidia 200 series or ATI 4000 series running Win 7 x64).

Don't really know, that 7300GT is really weak.
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lol it is, I tried to play that shutter island game and it's horrible. Video editing is also horrible. I am pretty sure I can put OS X 10.6 on a pc. I don't want to download an external antivirus, firewall, spyware malware etc.
 
FutureTechHope said:
lol it is, I tried to play that shutter island game and it's horrible. Video editing is also horrible. I am pretty sure I can put OS X 10.6 on a pc. I don't want to download an external antivirus, firewall, spyware malware etc.
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Why would you want to put OS X on a PC (especially if you want to run games)? There is no point to hackintoshing OS X on a PC if you want to play games.
 
DesmoPilot said:
Why would you want to put OS X on a PC (especially if you want to run games)? There is no point to hackintoshing OS X on a PC if you want to play games.
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Well I wanted to have the OS X because I really like it. I also use final cut pro a lot. I guess I could use premiere from now on. With Win 7 you no longer need to download external anitivirus software right?
 
FutureTechHope said:
Well I wanted to have the OS X because I really like it. I also use final cut pro a lot. I guess I could use premiere from now on. With Win 7 you no longer need to download external anitivirus software right?
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Than keep your Mac Pro for OS X and build a PC for games? With Win 7 you still need anti-virus sure; personally I don't use anti-virus, just run malware bytes and ad aware.
 
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