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Re: SWTOR + Mac + Parallels
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:27 pm
by Pocky
Fiddletwix wrote:I'm playing on Parallels 7 as well and am having success with my bootcamp partition. The memory leaks in SWTOR are killer at times but nothing that a client restart can't fix.
For sake of comparison, I have almost the same exact rig
* 2008 Mac Pro
* 12GB of memory
* Flashed PC ATI 6870.
For my VM I have Vista(copy I bought specifically for bootcamping/VM'ing) and I give it 8 cpus and 4 GB of memory. Giving it 8GB actually made things worse. To get the game to play well I turn everything low, turn off the grass and vegetation and turn off shadows. I play just fine at 1920x1080 with 30-60FPS.
I tried playing with an ATI 4870 but it was too chunky on the graphics, upgrading to the 6870 made the difference. I also don't have my
As far as Boot Camp: I just do too much on my mac to dual boot. I like the idea of just switching virtual desktops and I'm back on a mac quickly vpn'ing to fix things at work. In fact, that happened twice this weekend.
Gotcha. Well, if Katy ever decides to play on her MacBook, we might try Parallels. Thanks, all. ^_^
Re: SWTOR + Mac + Parallels
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:03 pm
by tethealla
The video card I have is the Apple ATI 5770. So yours is better.
What do you mean by Flashed PC? Can you buy cards for the PC and update their firmware to allow them to work on the Mac? I hated paying 2* for the card just because it was for the mac.
My VM has been crashing during cut scenes lately. I suspect it's a Win8 driver issue. It's quite inconvenient. I am going to try and find my XP disc/license and try running on a non-development OS (even if old).... or just fork over the money to buy Win7.
Question for you Windows knowledgeable people. What is the difference between a WIndows 7 OEM license and a normal license? My friends said something about the license not being able to move from computer to computer. This sounds very VM unfriendly. With the virtual hardware changing frequently on a VM, I'd worry that WIn7 would think I'd have moved from one machine to another. The normal licenses are like $180 (ouch).
Re: SWTOR + Mac + Parallels
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:52 pm
by Chamomile
OEM licenses are intended to only be activated on a single machine. It's a version meant for someone building a PC that will be purchasing another copy of the OS for the next machine they build. Retail versions are still limited to one active installation but if you get a new PC without an OS, you can delete the install on the old machine and legally use it on the new one.
In practice you might get an extra activation or two out of an OEM install before it'll tell you that you need to phone the mothership.
These days, that's relatively straightforward as well. You'll get an automated attendant which will have you enter in a code from your screen, it'll read you off a long activation code, and you're done.
In the event that you actually have to speak to a representative, you will just need to explain that you're still only using the license on a single computer but after a hardware change you got this message.
Re: SWTOR + Mac + Parallels
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:59 am
by Fiddletwix
tethealla wrote:The video card I have is the Apple ATI 5770. So yours is better.
What do you mean by Flashed PC? Can you buy cards for the PC and update their firmware to allow them to work on the Mac? I hated paying 2* for the card just because it was for the mac.
Yes, yes you can. I bought my 2GB 6870 for $169 after rebate and just flashed it. There is no official 6870 for mac, but drivers are there in latest Lion and SL 10.6.8 and just flashed it. It was drop dead easy.
Here are the two posts that helped me along.
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic ... ml#msg7080
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic ... ml#msg6784
The only caveat I had to watch for was that the bottom DVI port had to be used and any display port -> dvi conversion needed an active converter($22 per converter from amazon).