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Jul 04, 2012, 03:38 AM // 03:38
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: USA
Guild: [eF]
Profession: R/A
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Opinions on GW play with Apple computer/laptop
I have seen a few videos of people playing on Apple laptops with GW2 using bootcamp.
Is this the only way? Is anyone here playing GW1 on an Apple? |
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Jul 04, 2012, 01:53 PM // 13:53
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Hell's Protector
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Canada
Guild: Brothers Disgruntled
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The best way is to install Windows using Bootcamp and run GW in Windows, but there are other methods such as using WINE or Crossover Games, which will emulate the needed Windows functions (at the cost of some performance). I'm not personally experienced with this myself though, so that's about all I can tell you.
As with many of these things, you might get better responses these days by posting in the tech section of GWGuru2 forums. http://www.guildwars2guru.com/ |
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Jul 13, 2012, 06:47 AM // 06:47
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Jun 2005
Profession: W/
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Because I don't have room in my super-tiny apartment for a desktop, I play GW1 on my MBP (late 2008 model) and have been playing the GW2 beta on it as well.
GW1 runs decently in 1440x900, GW2 does too, without any eye candy. It's not the best of solutions, but it does the trick. I'm moving in September and the first thing I'll purchase will be a new desktop rig :P I have Windows 7 installed on it with bootcamp. I have never tried wine or other similar programs, but I doubt they'd give the same performance as an actual windows install. |
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Jul 15, 2012, 12:12 AM // 00:12
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: California
Guild: The Royal Dragon Riders [TRDR]
Profession: D/A
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Hey, yes you can use it on a mac. There are ways to actually using it on the OS X system, one of which is in the community works sections of this site. However, the above posts are right in that nothing will be able to beat running it on windows. So if you have the space, it is your best bet.
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Jul 18, 2012, 01:32 AM // 01:32
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: guildwiki.org/User:Lorazcyk
Profession: Mo/
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You could use Wine http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/. Use the official Wine, not a 3rd party.
There's no way I'm dualbooting/bootcamping, life's too short to wait 7 minutes to boot into Windoerz! |
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Jul 18, 2012, 02:56 PM // 14:56
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Hell's Protector
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Canada
Guild: Brothers Disgruntled
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It wouldn't take 7 minutes if you had decent hardware.
 Also, you could just skip booting into OSX and run Windows all the time.  (plus 7 whole minutes. OMG! Go have a pee, it will be done before you get back.)
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Jul 19, 2012, 11:31 AM // 11:31
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rattus rattus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London, UK GMT±0 ±1hr DST
Guild: [GURU]GW [wiki]GW2
Profession: R/
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Young people don't take that long to pee, Quaker.
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Jul 19, 2012, 01:07 PM // 13:07
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Nov 2009
Profession: E/
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But did you wash your hands Snograt??
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Jul 19, 2012, 01:28 PM // 13:28
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Hell's Protector
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Canada
Guild: Brothers Disgruntled
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That's total time, including the trip to and from the bathroom, stopping at the fridge to get a snack, etc.
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Jul 19, 2012, 01:53 PM // 13:53
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Nov 2009
Profession: E/
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