Mac?

[Rick13H]

Probably a silly question, but will IL-2BOS run on a Mac?

[Guest deleted@1562]

If you have Windows installed and meet the minimum hardware requirements, it does. Not under MacOS, though.

[39bn_pavig]

I run it fine on an iMac under windows bootcamp, but it pays to have a fairly recent mac so that your GPU is up to spec. I7 processors help too as it is fairly processor intensive.

[Zak]

Unfortunatelly a version for Mac OS is not possible in our case, it has never been planned for DN engine.

[39bn_pavig]

Don't worry about not having a Mac version Zak. Plenty of Mac users just boot their machines in windows for games and OSX for doing real work. Also unfortunately flight sim peripherals seldom have official Mac support so no trackIR or many HOTAS setups etc. (Not many people know that quite a few HID devices do work under Mac by default but usually manufacturer support is minimal to none.)

 

Creating a windows partition for gaming is fairly pain free on a Mac provided you buy (or have) a license of windows 7 or later to install. I've tried vista and wouldn't recommend it. Apple's Bootcamp software takes care of the grunt work. The main pain with windows 8 DRM though is that it refuses to install on a removable or non primary partition so you must make space on your main drive.

 

After installation you can not resize the partitions (or rather you can, but windows has a brainless boot manager that will get confused and kill your OS unless you type arcana into the console to fix it.) A program CampTune can manage partition sizes in Bootcamp configurations, and they also sell tools for OSX and Win to write to each others partitions if you want to live dangerously. I think Paragon is the software company that makes them.

 

So using a windows partition for gaming on the Mac is highly recommended. Apple drivers are generally good, though updating to the latest reference drivers for GPU is recommended. As always, make sure you have backups just in case.

[39bn_pavig]

... Also parallels desktop (or other virtualisation software) can be used to run windows software on Mac. Of those I've tried parallels is the best for directx performance BUT I would not recommend it for performance gaming. It works great for if you need to run windows in a window under Mac OS.

 

For non-performance gaming Crossover is also available, which is basically Unix WINE with a nicer wrapper. For older games which run it is quite good, but which games run is a lottery. I've played Stalker with acceptable performance under Crossover but Trying to run contemporary AAA titles is a gamble at best. Many OSX windows ports (especially from GOG) are just the windows game with a WINE wrapper packaged into a Mac app, so effectively just virtualised fake windows anyway. GOG version of System Shock 2 is made that way and it runs like a charm. Post DX9 titles though tend to be performance constrained.