Playing on a mac

[Firenze]

Looking for some feedbacks of people playing on a mac.

I'm gonna buy an Imac 27 core i3 8 gig ram.
I want to know what are you guys experiences with playing on a mac , do you use paralells or run a different windows instal on yur mac just to play eq.

also , how many char can you box w/o getting much lag.

Gonna buy this comp for photographia and stuff , but if I can play some eq on it , it's a plus

Thanks

[pythagoras]

I would use boot camp instead of parallels. With parallels you'll be running your whole instance of Mac OS along with a virtual load of Windows and whatever programs you have running in either. Only downside of boot camp is having to reboot to choose Windows or Mac OS.

[Micah]

Bootcamp is the way to go imho.

I had an iMac 27" Dual Core with 4 GB RAM running Bootcamp and I was able to run 3 instances of EQ with no problem. A fourth instance made it unplayable.

Note that I didn't play with the iMac too much as I have other systems, so my experience might differ.

[Lola]

I PM'ed you but this might interest others.
I7 HD SSC - 8 giga RAm
Bootcamp.

15 toons (lowest graphic options, windowed mode) - Works fine.
Loly

[antihero]

Sorry, this has to be here...

http://youtu.be/Hk8hxjpnUiw

[pythagoras]

LMAO!

[Firenze]

[Grey]

lol that was nice

[macpete]

Hi, I've just installed THF inside a Wineskin wrapper and it seems to work very well on my 2011 iMac (i5, 8 Gigs, Radeon 6770M, OS X 10.7.3).

I've used Wineskin v2.5 with the latest engine (WS8Wine1.4-rc2), installed EQ Titanium and the required THF custom files directly from the Wineskin wrapper and set the Screen Options as Rootless (windowed) | normal windows. I've also changed the game resolution editing the eqclient.ini text file (WindowedWidth=1600 | WindowedHeight=1200) and tested all the advanced video settings through the in-game Options menu.

Everything seems (I've not really played yet) to work pretty well. Turning on the shadows may kill the frame-rate but all the other graphic settings work without issues.

The game also works with WindowedMode=TRUE in the eqclient.ini and Rootless (windowed) | Virtual desktop at ... in Wineskin ... I will try to experiment a bit with all these settings in the next few days.

You can also follow the instructions posted in the Project 1999 forum: here

Hope it helps (sorry for my rusty English).

[Firenze]

Macpete,


thanks for you help here, this looks promising , I installed everything, edited my eqclient file, the only problem , is I just get a windowed black screen with eq cursor on it , and thats it. any tips ?