Will Running Windows Using Boot Camp Increase My Performance

[Tarzanax]

I currently use a 2,6Mhz i5 processor, and intel iris 1536 mb. As many players using Mac, my performance is terrible. I have a question to those who have Windows installed through the boot camp option. Will this help performance? I currently only get a meager 20 FPS early game (with less than 5 thousand people in my town). Could you estimate the performance I would get once I install Windows using boot camp and run the game?

Thank you very much for your help.

[lotw_1]

Yes cause you will be running Windows in an un-emulated form. My friend does that all the time on his Mac Pro desktop to play Skyrim and others. Gets 60fps most of the time.

[Tarzanax]

Yeah, but he likely has a better graphics card than I do, so do you have an estimation on what I'll be getting?

[Mansen]

lotw_1 eredeti hozzászólása:

Yes cause you will be running Windows in an un-emulated form. My friend does that all the time on his Mac Pro desktop to play Skyrim and others. Gets 60fps most of the time.

You're confusing everyone including yourself - Skylines is NOT emulated on the Mac. It is a natively compiled unity project that runs ... well natively on OSX.

That being said - You're probably still going to be getting better mileage with Windows because you're not limited by OSX (Apple's rather) ancient GPU drivers. Better stable than ... performing is their motto.

The workshop will also work.

[Tarzanax]

Yes but will performance only marginally improve, or substantially? And will an *achem* "torrented" version of windows suffice? Or doesn't that work with boot camp?

[Gamer Bitch]

Bootcamped versions of windows are geniune versions of windows all bootcamp does is partition the hardrive and i would suggest to not use torrented versions of windows bootcamp will work just fine for you.

[untmdsprt]

Isn't the Intel Iris an integrated GPU in the processor? Looking at the system specs, the game doesn't support integrated graphics. If that's the case I doubt you'll get a better gaming experience with bootcamp.