Gaming on a Macbook pro

[theryan923]

Hello everyone, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section, but I would like to know what software is better for gaming on a Mac. I have Parallel Desktop 5 but I noticed while playing the Orangebox I was getting some framerate issues.
I heard a lot of good things about Crossover games and I was wondering if that would be better? or would bootcamp be just fine? Also my Macbook pro is the 2010 15'' 2.4ghz. Thanks for your time!

 

[MacDawg]

If you are going to game... Bootcamp will clearly offer you the best performance

 

[Corndog5595]

Install Windows natively instead of in a virtual machine.

You could try to port Windows games using Cider, but this also takes a performance hit, although not as bad as inside a virtual machine.

 

[mongrol]

Hello everyone, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section, but I would like to know what software is better for gaming on a Mac. I have Parallel Desktop 5 but I noticed while playing the Orangebox I was getting some framerate issues.
I heard a lot of good things about Crossover games and I was wondering if that would be better? or would bootcamp be just fine? Also my Macbook pro is the 2010 15'' 2.4ghz. Thanks for your time!

Why are you playing the Windows version of Orange Box? All of those games now have been released natively for Mac on Steam.

 

[alust2013]

bootcamp it up. That will run windows as if you were on a regular PC, and absolutely smoke any virtualization software out there

 

[theryan923]

Why are you playing the Windows version of Orange Box? All of those games now have been released natively for Mac on Steam.

Because I got it a long time ago. Also Thanks everyone for your replies i guess I will use bootcamp!