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zacksco Mar 5, 2016 @ 9:11am
Would running BootCamp on an external drive slow down games?
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golden leopard Mar 5, 2016 @ 11:46am 
Can be done, but I'd worry if I was gaming via boot camp via external drive, could be slow? (Use thunderbolt)

Found this ~ https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5431182?tstart=0
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Fia.sko tasty.bz/♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Mar 5, 2016 @ 5:17pm 
I can
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zacksco Mar 5, 2016 @ 6:04pm 
Originally posted by Mist(er)ror:
I can
What Hardware/Software do you use?
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iMatt Mar 7, 2016 @ 10:13am 
If the drive is connected via Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 (faster than TB), you shouldn't have any problem. Once you've booted the OS and loaded the game, there's not a whole lot of data i/o. In terms of gaming it's about GPU, CPU and ram, in that order. If you have a fast GPU, a fast CPU and enough ram to prevent paging out to the drive - 16GB should be plenty - the hard drive is almost totally irrelevant.
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