Playing on bootcamp

[antonio.rfx]

I hit the play button and the game will never load. Have no idea whats going on.

[RustyRed]

I don't think anyone would know what's going on for you if you don't give more information on the machine you are trying to run it on. Tower/portable computer? Drivers? Verify Integrity with steam? Device specs? Operating system you are using in bootcamp? Though I won't be able to answer your question, YOU being able to answer those questions above will allow someone else with a similar setup give you advice.

[NNTB]

last i knew macintosh computers had a steam just for osx. why not try sticking to games made for your hardware? or get a pc?

[Astori Heichalot]

I know people gonna flame me for this,

but you cannot expect gaming to work perfectly on mac, unless it is mac coded/designed, which is why there is a Steam OSX page for those.

and no, I wouldn't say such thing as "buy a gaming pc applefanbois" or something similar, while Im sure many people picked mac for reasons (whether those reasons valid or not, but that would be different issue).

[Storm]

Just a heads up guys


Bootcamp is for running Windows on a Mac PC, As Mac Hardware is essentually PC parts, he is basically running a PC

[NightKnight]

I have played this flawlessly since the offline patch was released. I did however have
To verify files after and it downloaded 1 file. Not one problem since. I also play on bootcamp running windows 8.1

[KHL ツ]

Originally posted by Matt:

Just a heads up guys


Bootcamp is for running Windows on a Mac PC, As Mac Hardware is essentually PC parts, he is basically running a PC

Actually Apple hardware is not exactly PC hardware. As you have to purchase RAM and video cards for apple computers.

[antonio.rfx]

im using a macbook pro 2.3ghz 512 ssd

Crysis runs flawlessly. But when I click on Revengence nothing happens.

[LonelyBacteria]

Originally posted by Matt:

Bootcamp is for running Windows on a Mac PC, As Mac Hardware is essentually PC parts, he is basically running a PC

Does Microsoft sell bootcamp? (not sure but I doubt)

The operating system is extremely important and bootcamp is definitely not like running windows natively

Originally posted by antonio.rfx:

im using a macbook pro 2.3ghz 512 ssd
Crysis runs flawlessly.

Bull, and also you seem to be one of those people who say things thinking they know what they're talking about

2.3ghz...dual/quad? (very important)
is it using integrated graphics? (this alone can stop games)
512 SSD means nothing except that your load times are a couple seconds faster.

[icaras]

So much misinformation in this thread, where to begin. I guess I'll go down the thread, post by post.

Firstly, to the OP, I'm bootcamping on my iMac too and Metal Gear Rising runs just fine on mine. No problems here. It could be a number of things and I'm really not sure how to resolve your issue from the limited amount of information that we have. What version of Windows are you running for starts? I'm running Windows 8.1 via Bootcamp and the game runs perfect for me.

Originally posted by Trowa Barton:

last i knew macintosh computers had a steam just for osx. why not try sticking to games made for your hardware? or get a pc?

Mac computers allow for you to boot in both OS X and Windows, all natively, each in their own respective hard drive partitions. Metal Gear Rising is only available for Windows so he would have to run Steam on Windows in order to play.

Originally posted by Astori Heichalot:

I know people gonna flame me for this,

but you cannot expect gaming to work perfectly on mac, unless it is mac coded/designed, which is why there is a Steam OSX page for those.

Yes, you will get flamed because your information is incorrect :P I'm just kidding. No flame intended, but gaming will behave identically on a Mac because it indeed runs NATIVELY. Windows is installed on it's own hard drive partition and that point, there is nothing different running between a Mac and a PC. They both use Windows and they both use the same hardware. Apple simply rearranges these hardware components differently inside the chassis than a PC does.

Originally posted by Matt:

Just a heads up guys


Bootcamp is for running Windows on a Mac PC, As Mac Hardware is essentually PC parts, he is basically running a PC

Yup, basically.

Originally posted by nickfrancis86:

I have played this flawlessly since the offline patch was released. I did however have
To verify files after and it downloaded 1 file. Not one problem since. I also play on bootcamp running windows 8.1

Running Windows 8.1 here as well. No problems here either.

Originally posted by Taylor Swift:

Actually Apple hardware is not exactly PC hardware. As you have to purchase RAM and video cards for apple computers.

Actually, no, it is pretty much like PC hardware. RAM is identical. Macs use the same Intel chips as PCs so why would the RAM be different? GPUs in all Macs except for the Mac Pro are identical except for the fact that nVidia has from time to time released specially enhanced variant GPUs for Mac only, for example my GTX 680MX in my 27" iMac. But it matters not because I download and install the same exact graphics drivers from Nvidia that you guys do.

Originally posted by CommaCauseE:

Does Microsoft sell bootcamp? (not sure but I doubt)

No they do not. Bootcamp is an app utility designed by Apple to streamline the process for users to automate hard drive partition for installing Windows on their Mac.

Originally posted by CommaCauseE:

The operating system is extremely important and bootcamp is definitely not like running windows natively

Yes it is running natively. OS X has nothing to do with Windows once it's installed on a separate partition.

Originally posted by CommaCauseE:

Bull, and also you seem to be one of those people who say things thinking they know what they're talking about

I wouldn't be calling out on others if your saying yourself that you think Windows isn't running natively on a Mac. Bootcamp has been natively running Windows on Intel Macs since 2006.

Originally posted by CommaCauseE:

2.3ghz...dual/quad? (very important)

For games? Not really. Clockspeed or even the architecture has far less bearing on game performance than the GPU. I don't think there's too many games utilizing multi-core processing as much as you'd think.

Originally posted by CommaCauseE:

is it using integrated graphics? (this alone can stop games)

Not the new Iris iGPUs that Intel recently released. My wife's 2013 iMac with the new Intel Iris Pro iGPU measures up to last year's discreet Nvidia GeForce GT 640M and can run L4D2 or Portal 2 just fine. Advances in modern iGPUs today can match entry level discreet GPUs with ease.

[LonelyBacteria]

I meant when people don't list it it's probably just intel 3000 or under and some games wont run on that or the ram isn't good enough because it wasn't intended for gaming. I assume intels require ram in the same why the APUs do, I'm just guessing

I've seen a lot of games lately stating 2.4 or 2.6 dual cores as there minimum (I meant important as in knowing what the processor is in general)

Also I was thinking of Parallels sorry, I'm really used to windows and just installing whatever you want so I was thinking it was running windows within OSX
At work they have one Mac running 9 within it after it starts up and we have Parallels on a newer one that I've seen opened once lol so I was thinking of it being like those

[Dekonega]

Originally posted by icaras:

Apple simply rearranges these hardware components differently inside the chassis than a PC does.

They don't do even that. They just took nVidia reference nForce board and then relabeled it. The same stuff any OEM like Dell or HP does. At least 2008 late MacBook Pros (5,1) were like that when I used one.

At this point of time Macintosh is just a brand name for 100% IBM PC compatible clones manufactured by Apple. Only major difference being the fact that Apple uses their own software platform instead of Microsoft's Microsoft Windows platform.

People should start learning that there's no such platform as PC and never has been. The actual name of the hardware platform is "IBM PC compatibles". There are many different kinds of PCs not just IBM PCs. Apple ][ is just as much of a PC as Commodore Amiga is a PC or IBM PC compatibles are PCs. Saying "PC" while thinking IBM PC compatible is pretty much same as saying Rollerblades when you're thinking Rollerskates.

IBM PC compatibles became so popular on PC market that the PC pretty much became generic term which means IBM PC compatibles. But since it's an accronym which means "Personal Computer" it essentially now has two completely different meanings.

Macs have always been PCs except that now Macs are not just PCs, they're also IBM PC compatible clones.