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February 21, 2009 11:01:50 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

I've played Sins with a laptop with vista, I was curious if I would still be able to play if I purchased a Mac. I'm not meaning to start a Mac vs. Pc thread, i'm just curious.

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Reply #1 February 22, 2009 10:29:36 AM
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I play on a Mac, with Windows XP installed thru boot-camp. 

Mac are 100% better than PCs! 

 

Hi I'm a mac, and I'm a PC! 

PC: **** you Mac! 

haha 

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Reply #2 February 25, 2009 12:44:51 PM
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Well, no.  Not nativley and not supported.  On the other hand you could attempt to run the game in something like CrossOver or DARWINE.  Saying that you'd need Impulse running which requires .net 2 to run which is often a none starter.

But theoretically a retail release version might be A-Ok.   Check the appdb over at winehq to see what the compatibility is like.

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Reply #3 February 25, 2009 1:43:47 PM
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Yes it runs on Mac perfectly...

I got MacBook Pro and have been playing Sins on it since Beta - that is more than one year ago...

Of course, you can NOT run it on OS X - but! - OS X has got lovely feature called BOOT CAMP which allows you to dual boot to Windows (XP or Vista or even Win7!)

So go for it!

You wont have any problem at all... In fact I will go that far and say it will run better on your Mac than on equivalent PC  

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Reply #4 February 27, 2009 12:47:14 AM
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not to mention, better graphics...

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Reply #5 March 1, 2009 8:44:55 PM
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I don't like MACs.  I build my own PCs and have the same speed for half the $$$.

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Reply #6 March 1, 2009 8:57:10 PM
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i run it on a mac book pro with all the graphics turned on. it beats my vista pc pretty bad. which sux coz my vista had a better graphics card and twice the RAM.

 

bootcamp-xp pro!

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Reply #7 March 2, 2009 2:50:31 AM
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Quoting sangamc,
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i run it on a mac book pro with all the graphics turned on. it beats my vista pc pretty bad. which sux coz my vista had a better graphics card and twice the RAM.

 

bootcamp-xp pro!

Yap

I am running bootcamp-xp pro too and it beats my old PC of little bit better specs hands down...

Its insane!

Love it hehe

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Reply #8 March 4, 2009 1:19:58 AM
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Im running on a Mac with a 800Mhz CPU and a  16MB graphics card  and  I get far better performance  than running it on my  3.8 Ghz  Quad core  with  1700 MB nvidia Card.

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Reply #9 March 5, 2009 10:46:19 PM
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Something worth pointing out.  BootCamp does require a copy of Windows which will add $$$ on to your quest.  Both of my suggestions are free (one is free as in beer the other has a time limited demo).  

Ohh and no, the OEM version that came with your clapped out old Dell won't do... unless you know which sized sledgehammer to use on WGA.

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Reply #10 March 6, 2009 4:55:52 AM
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Quoting CreditSuisse,
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Mac are 100% better than PCs! 

 

Mac are betta than PC 100% duuuuuuuur.   Mac,  what an overpriced piece of poopoo

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Reply #11 March 25, 2009 10:25:47 AM
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with mac you get what you pay for DOH!!

 

i just installed the volumetric explosions and bailknights improved graphical mod on both my vista pc at work and my macbook pro XP, and guess which one rocks the hardest ......

 

 

bootcamp-xp. i it!

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Reply #12 March 27, 2009 2:21:23 AM
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Hey, has anyone tried to run Sins in a Windows XP Emulator on their Mac?   I know it probably wouldn't work, but I suspect some enterprising fellow has tried it.  

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Reply #13 March 27, 2009 12:12:47 PM
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yes i have tried running it on my imac in both parallels and vmware and it blows chunks. sadly my imac is tiger so i cant run bootcamp. and use my 20inch display. the performance on the macbook pro is more than satisfacotry even on huge maps with massive fleets, full graphics and mods!

 

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Reply #14 March 27, 2009 12:29:52 PM
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the performance on the macbook pro is more than satisfacotry even on huge maps with massive fleets, full graphics and mods!

A macbook pro running bootcamp?  Or Parallels or VMWare?  Those are the two best emulators I'm aware of as well.  I just don't really want a bootcamp partition on my mac right now....they are annoying.  I might get around to it eventually, but if a Mac Pro is powerful enough to run Sins in an Emulator, I would give it a try.  

Thanks for the feedback, btw!

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Reply #15 March 27, 2009 1:30:07 PM
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the problem with the parallels and vmware virtual machines is the graphics support. parallels doesnt do a good job with directx and vmware isnt much better. it makes sense that they would struggle because there is overhead from running xp in a VM that sits on top of OSx. my bootcamp partition is 6 GB which is enough for the xp install and 2 games. (i also play homeworld 2 alot) so there isnt much of an impact on hard drive space.

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Reply #16 March 27, 2009 4:17:47 PM
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the problem with the parallels and vmware virtual machines is the graphics support. parallels doesnt do a good job with directx and vmware isnt much better. it makes sense that they would struggle because there is overhead from running xp in a VM that sits on top of OSx. my bootcamp partition is 6 GB which is enough for the xp install and 2 games. (i also play homeworld 2 alot) so there isnt much of an impact on hard drive space.

Yeeesssss......that is why I was asking if anyone had tried an emulator with good results.  So you in fact haven't had good results on an emulator, because I was asking about Emulators.  Thanks!  That is all I needed to know.   (I already know running an Intel based MAC as a Wintel box works great, this wasn't my question.)

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