http://smokingapples.com/software/reviews/the-status-of-virtualized-gaming-on-the-mac/ Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://smokingapples.com/software/reviews/the-status-of-virtualized-gaming-on-the-mac/#comment-3067 Andy Bewernick Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:22:29 +0000 http://smokingapples.com/?p=4736#comment-3067 Yeah, I know they have equivalents on the Mac. Halo runs so much better running native on my Mac. The purpose of the article was to see which of the two (Parallels or Fusion) was the best for running games in general. If you are serious about PC gaming chances are you won't have a Mac but a custom built PC. However if you really want to play on the Mac you should run Bootcamp first. For myself, I have some games that I own on the PC that are a few years old. Some don't have Mac equivalents (Battle for Middle Earth) and some do (The Movies). I didn't use these in the tests mainly cause I couldn't get BFME to install (scratched disk) and I couldn't find The Movies. My Mac as well isn't the most powerful thing either and I'm not sure how well it would run Left4Dead through either Parallels or Fusion. Yeah, I know they have equivalents on the Mac. Halo runs so much better running native on my Mac. The purpose of the article was to see which of the two (Parallels or Fusion) was the best for running games in general. If you are serious about PC gaming chances are you won’t have a Mac but a custom built PC. However if you really want to play on the Mac you should run Bootcamp first. For myself, I have some games that I own on the PC that are a few years old. Some don’t have Mac equivalents (Battle for Middle Earth) and some do (The Movies). I didn’t use these in the tests mainly cause I couldn’t get BFME to install (scratched disk) and I couldn’t find The Movies. My Mac as well isn’t the most powerful thing either and I’m not sure how well it would run Left4Dead through either Parallels or Fusion.

]]> http://smokingapples.com/software/reviews/the-status-of-virtualized-gaming-on-the-mac/#comment-3061 Sierran Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:04:12 +0000 http://smokingapples.com/?p=4736#comment-3061 My problem with your test is that all the games you mention actually have native Macintosh releases - so there's no need to actually run them in virtualization. COD2, COD4 and Halo are all available as OS X apps. How about some tests of things we just can't get, like COD:WaW? Or Bioshock? Or Left4Dead? Left4Dead should be interesting given that the engine is now a few years old. My problem with your test is that all the games you mention actually have native Macintosh releases – so there’s no need to actually run them in virtualization. COD2, COD4 and Halo are all available as OS X apps. How about some tests of things we just can’t get, like COD:WaW? Or Bioshock? Or Left4Dead? Left4Dead should be interesting given that the engine is now a few years old.

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