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iBotz

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Feb 28, 2010
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Which should I use to run games like GTA 4 or HL2 on a 2.93 MP with a 4870
 
All of your Mac's resources will be available with Boot Camp. With Parallels, you're sharing resources between your Mac and Windows, resulting in lower performance with both systems.
 
Thanks. Should I just use disk utility to wipe my current Win HD ( Number 3) or should I just install over it?
 
All virtualization technology today faces the same challenge of offloading work to the GPU. Fusion has the same problem as parallels does at this point.

Though with the recent news of Steam coming to the mac, maybe way and play those games natively? I don't game so I don't know if those games are once that are on steam...
 
Run games natively! Install Windows 7 64 bit on bootcamp. Even just the thought of running games in a virtualised enviroment makes me shiver :p Steam for mac will be fantastic, but performance will likely be better under Direct X.
 
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