Possible to run on a mac?

Daakkon · #1 09-14-2010, 04:44 PM

if so is there a guide anywhere?

Blancah · #2 09-14-2010, 04:47 PM

Bootcamp/Parallels or something of the like running windows is the only way to play on a mac I believe.

Daakkon · #3 09-14-2010, 04:49 PM

Do you know of a guide? I don't know mac's at all. :/

Blancah · #4 09-14-2010, 04:53 PM

Boot Camp:
http://lifehacker.com/384256/have-yo...with-boot-camp

Parallels:
http://lifehacker.com/201451/hack-at...with-parallels

Daakkon · #5 09-14-2010, 04:56 PM

thank you!

Tork · #6 09-14-2010, 08:51 PM

Holy christ - if you get it up and going smoothly, please let me know - I had no luck.

I could get EQ to run, that's not the problem - the problem was *massive* CPU consumption. If you check the tail end of the multi CPU sticky thread, you'll see a bunch of things we tried (without success).

A summary: Bootcamp and VM Fusion 3 exhibited massive CPU consumption with the Ti client, occasional black screen lock up on zoning. Crossover (Wine derivative) couldn't start the Ti client.

Very, very frustrating experience - I now play P1999 on a 3 year old plain Jane Dell laptop with Vista, and it works like a champ.

Crash · #7 09-15-2010, 12:58 PM

I play without issue every night on my 3 year old Macbook.

I had a lot of trouble getting it to run in Fusion, it would load up and everything but with a lot of resources being consumed by emulating the OS it couldn't make EQ anywhere near playable.

Check out Apple's site (or just search for "boot camp") and follow the guide for installing Windows as it's own separate partition. A 10GB partition is plenty of space (for XP, anyways) and EQ runs great.

Tork · #8 09-15-2010, 02:30 PM

I should have been more specific - I've tried bootcamp, bootcamp+fusion, fusion - all maxed out resources on an i7 OSX. It's clearly not that EQ's resource intensive (I can run it on a netbook...), but some artifact of coding which plays havoc with newer multicore CPUs.

Gawain · #9 09-15-2010, 02:44 PM

I do it fine on parellels on my new 27" iMac. What are you running into problems with?

Samuel · #10 09-15-2010, 02:49 PM

I play on a mac, using boot camp. I tried using parallels, but it didn't seem to support any graphics card, so character models were all grey etc. Did you have to do something to work around that, Gawain?