Anyone here had success with BootCamp running windows and what games have you tried running on it? I am going to be going on a trip and would like to be able to play Mideval Total War II on my macbook pro. I haven't bought the game yet but i was going to try Rome Total War and see if that ran first...

12/26/2006 11:01:09 PM

yes, everyone has had success running Windows in BootCamp and Parallels.
The latest Parallels beta is awesome, allowing you to launch Windows apps directly from the Dock. Use BootCamp for games and full graphics support, running at full, native speed. As fast as almost any PC out there

12/26/2006 11:05:28 PM

I heard that not all games will run on a mac with windows? is that just a small select few or is it fairly common to run into this problem?

12/26/2006 11:06:46 PM

oh and would a Media Center 2005 disc work? it says it has to be a XP disc with service pack 2 on it already which i don't think i have. But i do have a MEdia Center 2005 Disc with SP2

12/26/2006 11:07:46 PM

Uh,

Quote :

"I heard that not all games will run on a mac with windows?"

What?

Standard intel chipset, standard components.

12/27/2006 12:54:41 AM

Unreal Tournament 2004, NFS: Most Wanted, F.E.A.R. Combat, Battlefield 2142(#?) -> demos, all work under XP Pro on 15" MB Pro using Boot Camp for me

12/27/2006 1:39:30 AM

^^"I heard" != fact hence why i'm asking here to be sure.

12/27/2006 2:06:15 AM

^ my list, i'm quite sure of. lol. i played UT04 demo online forever today under xp pro

[Edited on December 27, 2006 at 4:04 AM. Reason : ]

12/27/2006 4:04:11 AM

Mark, if it runs windows it'll run games.

How well it runs those games depends on how badly apple ripped you off on the components.

12/27/2006 10:49:01 AM

my little bro has a imac and plays games out the wazoo on it mostly in PC mode

12/27/2006 4:53:17 PM

I'm writing from my MacBook Pro right now, 1.83 GHz, 2 GB RAM, etc. etc.

Runs The Sims 2, Civilization 4, and a couple of other titles flawlessly under Boot Camp. The drivers that Apple's provided have measurably gotten better with each update to the Boot Camp software.

The graphics card is just an ATI card, with 128 MB video RAM, I think. Nothing special, but damn if it isn't nice to be able to reboot back into Mac OS X after a few hours of Windows gaming.

12/29/2006 12:37:27 AM

yeah, considering BootCamp is still in Beta...I don't expect it to be flawless...although Apple's beta is like Microsoft's Final Release

12/29/2006 7:59:58 AM

so has anyone tried Vista on a mac? Does anyone know if it will even run or install?

12/30/2006 4:26:32 PM

yep and yep. looks great under boot camp. looks like ass in Parallels (no accelerated video yet).

12/30/2006 9:49:16 PM

great! i have a copy of vista RC2 with me so i guess i could install that...just need to find a DVD to burn it to

12/30/2006 9:50:57 PM

well, a thought... if you purchased a copy of Parallels, you could try out one of the new betas that they've been releasing lately. you can use Parallels to access the Boot Camp partition, so I'd guess you might be able to just mount the RC2 ISO as a drive w/in Parallels, then install it that way. Might run slowly to install, but it'd save you a DVD.

12/31/2006 11:24:34 AM