Quick Question About Bootcamp

[MrWaffles]

I'm looking to run a version of Windows on my early 2015 macbook air with the 128gb ssd. The only thing I want to do is use it to play Civ V just so I can run a certain mod for multiplayer. I was just wanting advice on the minimum amount of space I could partition off and get away with it, which version of Windows would be the best, and how much drivers and stuff are going to take up as well.

I know I don't have a lot of space, but I really would use it for nothing other than Civ at the moment. I currently have just under 70gb free after cleaning off some stuff. Thanks for reading.

 

[casperes1996]

Why not just use the Mac version of Civ? You can get all the same mods running there too, you just need to edit a lua file to show the mods menu.

If you really want Windows though, if it's only going to be Civ V, I would probably recommend 64gigs. It's a lot relative to your total hard drive space, but I have a 150GB Windows partition, and with HITMAN, Final Fantasy X/X-2 and a few other things like MacsFanControl, Opera Neon, Messenger, Netflix and of course all of the BootCamp software, I'm down to 1GB left. (Win10 Insider Preview)

 

[MrWaffles]

There's a mod people use for multiplayer that they can't get running on Macs. I do currently run it on Mac, but I would rather run on Windows just for this reason.

 

[casperes1996]

There's a mod people use for multiplayer that they can't get running on Macs. I do currently run it on Mac, but I would rather run on Windows just for this reason.

Honestly thought all the same mods worked on Mac. Oh well. But yeah, 64GB is what I say

 

[MrWaffles]

Most of them do, but this particular one just does not.

 

[Dingado]

Why don't you just run Windows 10 off an external SSD and install all your stuff on there? That is what I'll do in the next week

 

[Gav2k]

32gb run windows 9 watch this > https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/748493-windows-9/

It strips the crap out of windows 10

 

[Huntn]

Why not just use the Mac version of Civ? You can get all the same mods running there too, you just need to edit a lua file to show the mods menu.

If you really want Windows though, if it's only going to be Civ V, I would probably recommend 64gigs. It's a lot relative to your total hard drive space, but I have a 150GB Windows partition, and with HITMAN, Final Fantasy X/X-2 and a few other things like MacsFanControl, Opera Neon, Messenger, Netflix and of course all of the BootCamp software, I'm down to 1GB left. (Win10 Insider Preview)

Get a portable drive to keep your PC games on.
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Why don't you just run Windows 10 off an external SSD and install all your stuff on there? That is what I'll do in the next week

My MBP has a measly 500 Gb hard drive and I'm considering removing the Bootcamp partition to free up some space. Is this (Win10 on an external USB drive using Bootcamp ) easy to do? Link and advice appreciated.