Apple Boot Camp

[Si Veteran]

Could you tell us how Far Cry runs on ur iMac?? any hangups ?

Medium -> High settings, and it's smooth as silk, I could do with more RAM though :D

I have a vid if someone wants to host (900kb) :)

[instant.human]

thats... just... oh my god...

you were just farcry running on an apple running windows xp natively...

yes, the hell has frozen over...

[crazzyyfool]

Bummer. I got partition errors. :( :cry:

[Si Veteran]

Bummer. I got partition errors. :( :cry:

Aw man that sucks! :(

I never saw anything like that because I've just blown my OS X install away and given the whole disk to XP :D

Installing Quake 4 now for more tests..

[macro]

All I have to say about this after installing and using it is:

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Si Veteran]

Update: Given another gig of RAM, Quake 4 would also run like butter (on standard high setting).

[Rudy]

If you've used XOM you need to boot from the OS X DVD and repartition your HDD to a single free space section.

Then reinstall OS X, and run the updater. Something to do with what the XOM does to the partition table as I understand.

Yes.

And the sound uses the internal speakers, switch to the intel drivers from the xom wiki if you want to use external speakers.

thanx, backing up my stuff right now :D

[NoneAvail]

Medium -> High settings, and it's smooth as silk, I could do with more RAM though :D

I have a vid if someone wants to host (900kb) :)

I have a youtube account, if you want email it to me and i'll upload it...

Email removed to prevent spam

[illicit]

This is extraordinary, and pretty unexpected!

Indeed... this is pretty sweet.

[Si Veteran]

I have a youtube account, if you want email it to me and i'll upload it...

Sent :D

I added one of Quake 4 too.

[TogaForComfort]

@ Funkymonkey

You only have 13GB left on your drive you need at leas 15GB. 10GB for the xp partition and 5GB left on the mac partition for swap space

[Alladaskill17]

Link for the Farcry & Quake 4 vids [running on intel macs w/windows xp] ?

[ahfunaki]

This makes me want to buy a macbook pro so bad...

[Si Veteran]

Link for the Farcry & Quake 4 vids [running on intel macs w/windows xp] ?

Thanks to kiall for hosting :) (Y)

http://www.neo-ware.com/neowin/

[kiall]

Thanks to kiall for hosting :) (Y)

http://www.neo-ware.com/neowin/

Looks gd but u should of shot some guys in it :p

[Coolme]

It's great, except you can't install media center edition on it. Also, could someone post some benchmarks (SuperPi, sandra...) I know that it's running XP natively, but I just want to get an idea as to how fast it really is. Thanks.

[Event]

Finally, it's installing! :D

[Pharos]

/me wants benchmarks :whistle:

[Malisk]

What would be even more interesting to know is if Apple intend to maintain this product, to have it support Windows Vista in the future, now that Vista won't support EFI on release either. Because when DirectX 10 only games start arriving (and many will want to use this solution to play Windows games, with the Mac for the desktop OS and "business" apps), then you'll need Vista anyway thanks to Microsoft's infinite wisdom.

Anyway, it goes without saying it's great news for any Mac users interested in running basically any and all current software for Windows XP at native speed. It also opens for interesting benchmarks such as how Photoshop will perform on XP vs on the Intel Mac version on identical hardware and all emulation bits out of the picture.

If this is going to be possible with Vista too in possibly a soon upcoming version, with proper drivers, then my next system could very well be a Mac. :) Right now I'm a bit doubtful though, because I don't want to purchase that whole thing now and be busted for the very first DX10 game arriving. Sure, it'll take a while and they'll likely first be compatible with DX9, but even if it takes 2 years or so, 2 years from now would be quite a short lifetime for a system. :(

Edited April 5, 2006 by Jugalator

[.Neo]

If it's true and this thing isn't Windows XP SP2 bonded people should try to install the latest Windows Vista beta on it and see if it works. If it doesn't I'm sure Apple will update their product in time for Windows Vista's launch, and by the looks of it they have all the time in the world for that. :laugh:

[kiall]

Personally i bought a Mac so i could use Mac Osx , i have windows laptops and Pc's to run windows

But saying that its nice to have access to both Os's on the one Pc

so Go Macs :p:P:P:P

[Si Veteran]

Hehe, stand by mode works with XP, you even get the white sleeping led glowing :D

[the_snitch]

This is amazing. I cant wait till 10.5 leopard, i'm sure they have a lot more tricks up their sleeve :D

[qinwarrior]

Please someone post result when you've done it. I'm scare to try....

[amr_01]

Please someone post result when you've done it. I'm scare to try....

read the posts, several people have done it.