PR and Mac?

[theiceman]

ok, my friend has been jelous of me casue i can play PR on my PC, but he has a mac. i am wondering if u can play pr ona mac if u DL some stuff, i am pretty sure u can but if some 1 could give me somemore details that would be great.


alos, he has a pretty new mac so the specs should be good.

[Jaksmillie]

If you are looking at this forum, I am the one he is talking about. I am planning on getting a program called VMware Fusion 2. It will work.

[Robbi]

You could look into getting bootcamp and running windows as a standalone OS on your Mac, but i doubt whether you could run PR succesfully on a Mac using VMware, but I could be wrong...

Im running OSX on my PC so I just use windows for gaming.

[theiceman]

i think it will, but if any 1 else know for sure if it will or not please tell us. Also, we were looking at amazon.com last night and i couldn't find bootcamp, does any 1 know where 2 get it? THANKS

[thepalerider]

Well I Googled "mac boot camp download" and got:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,470,000 for mac boot camp download.
Try it. I'm sure with 1,470,000 links your bound to find the download link for it. Or just use
The # 1 = Download Apple Boot Camp
Good luck
PS I know quite a few Mac running XP or Vista with bootcamp that say PR runs just fine.

[Robbi]

Yer running Win on bootcamp is completely fine, but VMware may be weird with Punkbuster etc, so im not too sure about that

[theiceman]

Well I Googled "mac boot camp download" and got:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,470,000 for mac boot camp download.
Try it. I'm sure with 1,470,000 links your bound to find the download link for it. Or just use
The # 1 = Download Apple Boot Camp
Good luck
PS I know quite a few Mac running XP or Vista with bootcamp that say PR runs just fine.

i thought that you had 2 pay for bootcamp?

[theiceman]

ok guys have bad news my firneds mac is version 10.4.11 and bootcamp came out justa fter that version, is there any other program that will do the same for sure besides MVware Fusion??? I NEED UR HELP PLZZ

[Duke]

Well ive been playing PR on a mac now for 3 years via bootcamp, and its easy as pie.

Bootcamp is a standard utility on all OSX operating systems since leopard, and was a downloadable beta before that. If your friends mac is even relatively new (i.e, 2006 or later) it should be there (applications/utilities/bootcamp assistant).

Essentially, it allows you to partition your hard drive into an OSX side and a Windows side, with you deciding how much space to allocate to windows depending on space currently available. Windows can then be run natively on the windows partition, allowing your mac to effectively become a PC with the only limitations being the actual capabilities of your rig rather than the artificial problems that emulation software would introduce.

Provided he has an windows install disk(XP/Vista/7 all work), all he has to do is run the assistant, follow the instructions, and install windows. The windows drivers are even included on the OSX install disk. After that, instal BF2 and PR as normal, and voila, PR on a mac.


If he needs anymore help, tell him to read this:

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Boo ... -Setup.pdf


One word of warning however. If your friends mac is one of the newest edition Macbook Pros (june), DO NOT allow him to run the 1.7 EFI update. It causes merry hell in any windows install as it messes with the SATA config which basically screws up how windows relates to the HD. Its been keeping me from playing PR for almost a month now whilst I wait on a fix from apple

If he doesnt have that specific model (and chances are he doesn't), then ignore the above warning and have fun on PR

[illdozer]

PR runs smoothly on my new iMac (24 inch,2,93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, ATI Radeon HD 4850).

I installed xp wtih Bootcamp, inserted OS X dvd, that contains drivers for xp then installed -->BF2-->v1.41 Patch-->PR-->start and BRAVO it works.

And the best thing is that I don't seems to have those connection problems anymore. Berofe with my xp they where a constant problem regardless how I tweaked my settings.

[TheRedDotO]

I tried with VMware fusion, BF2 works, but there are display mode problems when launching PR. When I look at the drivers, the Display Adapter is VMware SVGAII. I'll try to replace it