Virtual or Boot Camp?

[hakr100]

I have a new iMac pn the way and a few old PC games I miss playing since I gave up on Windoze. Games like the iD series of shoot'em'ups, Microsoft Golf and a few others. Maybe the new Microsoft Flight Simulator would be fun. Question is, do I want to go the Boot Camp route or the virtual machine route for these games? I think they might run better under Boot Camp running Windoze 10 but I don't know. Also, if Boot Camp, how big a partition for Windoze OS and a handful of games? 25 gigs, 50? What? Thanks!

 

[Juicy Box]

If playing games, VM would probably not be ideal.

Also, if Boot Camp, how big a partition for Windoze OS and a handful of games? 25 gigs, 50? What? Thanks!

It depends on the games, how big and how many.

I did a 120 GB partition with Windows 7 and one game filled it up. (WoW)

 

[casperes1996]

Yeah, games can be big. - On my last iMac I dedicated just 100G to Windows, but then used an external drive to install the games - on my current I have a bigger internal drive, so Windows got 512GB. - Virtualisation does not have significant overhead for CPU, but often has very noticeable overhead for GPU acceleration, and sometimes doesn't even work with some GPU calls. The tech technically exists for PCIe passthrough but would in most implementations require dedicating a GPU 100% to host or guest, so at least 2 GPUs would be required