Am I the only one who is playing this game on macbook (or Mac)?

[Zaireeka2025]

Right, OSX and Windows are two different beasts. I'm pretty sure, since the hardware is not x86 and such, that Apple only put in the ability to boot Windows for the people that wanted or needed it. It "seems" they have no real desire to improve the drivers and such to make it work better. For example, before with the video drivers, you can only use the ones apple provides, correct? It's actually not correct. Other companies do this, they change the Hardware ID of the GPU for example, so it's not recognized by the stock drivers. If you mod the inf file for those drivers to recognize that ID, they install and work fine. So of course it won't work as well as native OSX, Apple may not care, they may not put the same effort into bootcamp drivers, who knows, but it's still a PC. It's the same thing as an awesome video card in a PC, where the manufacturer won't write decent drivers for it.

It seems we agree with each other on many things. We all know that Macs are personal computers. The only thing I'm saying is for the sake and ease of conversation (and for the love of God) that Macs set themselves apart enough to be defined as a separate platform. Some ppl may use the terms "Windows vs OSX," but I think it's just easier to say "PC's vs Macs." So when a game like Battlefield 3 or SW:TOR comes out, there's a reason why the entirety of the gaming media industry announces its release on PC and Mac separately. Understand? Good.

[miqokini]

I have a 13" i5 MBP bought new in early 2011 that has FFXIV installed to the Windows partition. It runs fine on medium settings. I bring it to work with me to play when there is nothing else to do.

[Answa]

Why is this thread 10 pages long and only about 3 people have answered his question? It's not even an interesting read.

[ispano]

It seems we agree with each other on many things. We all know that Macs are personal computers. The only thing I'm saying is for the sake and ease of conversation (and for the love of God) that Macs set themselves apart enough to be defined as a separate platform. Some ppl may use the terms "Windows vs OSX," but I think it's just easier to say "PC's vs Macs." So when a game like Battlefield 3 or SW:TOR comes out, there's a reason why the entirety of the gaming media industry announces its release on PC and Mac separately. Understand? Good.

I honestly don't care how people refer to it. My point is that a few people in this thread, and much more elsewhere, including real life, seem to be under the impression it's automatically completely different and they're a little special for having a Mac. Notice I said "seem" I don't claim they do, just that they seem to. Also most games I see that are playable on OSX, list OSX in the requirements lately. As an example from everyone's favorite MMO: http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/19/bl...-requirements/

They don't state you need a PC with Windows or a Mac with OSX, Just Windows version xx or OSX version xx

Again, they can call it what they want, as long as they accept what it is. Unless you're one of the people still using a PowerPC based Mac. Those are truly different.

[Zaireeka2025]

Why is this thread 10 pages long and only about 3 people have answered his question? It's not even an interesting read.

I'm sorry sir... how can I better entertain you?

We are definitely off track though. I was originally interested in this thread because my brother owns a Mac and was hoping ppl would share optimal methods of running FFXIV on their Macs so's to share them with him.

[Zaireeka2025]

I have a 13" i5 MBP bought new in early 2011 that has FFXIV installed to the Windows partition. It runs fine on medium settings. I bring it to work with me to play when there is nothing else to do.

Question: Do you have any problems with overheating?

[CrystalObsidian]

I use a macbook, and using Bootcamp I can play all the lovely games I want.

[ispano]

Question: Do you have any problems with overheating?

If they do, they could try something like this. http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/run...g-windows.html

[ArdentMogui]

There's a smcfancontrol for windows its command prompt based but it works well. I'd link it but I can't on this phone. The program is essential as the fans don't turn on until the sensor overheats to some crazy amount.

[Greencactaur]

No that's ignorant!