I just followed the instructions to get FFXIV running on my mac, a 2011 17" macbook pro with 12 gig of DDR3 ram and that nvidia 6750m 1g graphics card.

Something I noticed though: The game runs smoother, at higher frame rates, and less crashes, on Mac OS X than on Bootcamp Windows 7.

That actually doesn't make sense to me. I've got 60 FPS and I ran an entire dungeon, as well as several events without crashing once. Even more awesome ... it lets you go into Fullscreen Mode and alt tab without crashing.

So ... it seems the Mac OS X version of FFXIV is superior to the windows version ... so Square-Enix should go ahead and port it to the Mac App Store ...


Back to the original question - Why would an emulated FFXIV be better than a native windows 7 version?


(tutorial http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/106122-How-To-Run-FFXIV-on-Mac-OSX)