BO3 on virtual machine

[seb]

So I have a slightly unique issue here: I bought COD: BO3 on my mac, expecting to be able to run it on my Windows10 Virtual machine, using Virtual Box. After downloading Steam and COD onto my virtual machine with no problems whatsoever, I noticed one I launched the game it seemed to lag. The virtual machine and all other apps in it, including Steam, were fine, but COD itself had major lag, even in the menu. The mouse worked fine but getting the buttons to sense that my mouse was over them took a while. Is this because BO3 is not optimized for PC properly yet like everyone seems to be having issues with or because I can't run COD on a VM. Bootcamp doesn't seem to be working either with the Windows 10 ISO I have.

Mac Specs: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013)
Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

If anyone could help it would be appreciated, thanks. Also if you know what is wrong with my bootcamp or need more info ask and I'll freely provide. Thank you all.

[BADSPistawful]

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/

You might try there.

[noobmaster69]

first of all virtual machine will lag cuz the mac uses two systems now The MAC and The Windows so it wont have full power, you have 8 GB ram well its not a ram hungry game anyway your biggest prob is GRAPHICS: an Intel HD 4000? this game is very demanding im playing at 720p on 840m so HD 4000 isnt to strong to handle it maybe 1280x720 on 50% render which sucks? sorry to say it but ur mac cant handle it

[seb]

Originally posted by The Winter Soldier:

first of all virtual machine will lag cuz the mac uses two systems now The MAC and The Windows so it wont have full power, you have 8 GB ram well its not a ram hungry game anyway your biggest prob is GRAPHICS: an Intel HD 4000? this game is very demanding im playing at 720p on 840m so HD 4000 isnt to strong to handle it maybe 1280x720 on 50% render which sucks? sorry to say it but ur mac cant handle it

CSGO and TF2 Run fine though....as well as portal and other games.
I also ran starcraft 2 on Ultra settings no problem. Here is the update:
So i got tf2 onto the VM and it ran but very laggishly. I run tf2 fine so i am assuming the VM cannot handle it and I will have to use boot camp to actually boot into Windows. Does anyone know how to use it or a good free ISO that works? Thanks Winter Soldier and Waffles.

[Insanity]

LMFAO good luck with running Black ops 3 on a mac

[dOBER]

i think min req for this game was a 470gtx and i bet no one can play this game atm with this card (30+ fps). a 470gtx got near 2x power then ur Intel HD 4000. so no u cant play this game on ur mac

[seb]

Is my Mac really that ♥♥♥♥♥♥? I thought it ran Starcraft and Csgo fine. Hm.... I guess I gotta get a pc then. On another note, are you guys still have in lag issues in general?

[Syn | MarviN]

That is really underpowered for this. Games don't equal engine or base system demand, you can run TF2 maxed out on a toaster but it will die when you put a real render/particle system in front of it. VM is using system resources to host the environment and interpret input/output which is going to cause a delay even if you could get it smoother.

I get lag issues from time to time, i5 4960k 16gb GTX660ti but it runs middle of the road enough for me to play.

[seb]

Is there a way to update my graphics card?

[Puppet]

I'm running on a Windows 7 (64-bit) gaming laptop from cyberpower
SPECS:
core i7-4710MQ @ 2.5 GHz (Overclocked to 2.9 GHz) 4 cores
Nvidia Geforce GTX 860m (4Gb of video ram)
16Gb of ram
1 Tb of haddrive space

I'm running the game with no issues after re-installing it several times!

[Insanity]

Originally posted by DADYPumpkinBoiii:

Is my Mac really that ♥♥♥♥♥♥? I thought it ran Starcraft and Csgo fine. Hm.... I guess I gotta get a pc then. On another note, are you guys still have in lag issues in general?

Not only tf2 a less demanding game, it is also a 8 year old game...

[Robb]

Run windows and mac in parallel instead

[Glaicer]

Your specs is way below min. reqs. Under VM it's overkill.

[seb]

Originally posted by Insanity:

Originally posted by DADYPumpkinBoiii:

Is my Mac really that ♥♥♥♥♥♥? I thought it ran Starcraft and Csgo fine. Hm.... I guess I gotta get a pc then. On another note, are you guys still have in lag issues in general?

Not only tf2 a less demanding game, it is also a 8 year old game...

Please do not bring up tf2 I I didn't bring it up in the comment you quoted. Isn't Starcraft much more demandin than tf2? I'm not really sure. Thanks.

[seb]

Originally posted by Robb:

Run windows and mac in parallel instead

So I'm going to try boot camp first.

[Mechman]

You'll have much better performance with running it in bootcamp. Parallels and Virtual Box are going to be running as level 2 hypervisors (so they run on top of of the MAC OS. Virtual Box has some level 1 features but generally is level 2: http://www.virtzone.net/the-difference-between-a-type-2-hypervisor-and-a-type-1-hypervisor/ ) Where I see the main problem is you don't have a separate video card, just the video chip built into the main CPU/processor. It's not really made to handle intense 3d gaming. If you really crank down the quality of the video settings you might be able to play..