PSO2 on Mac Observations and Help

[Quebe_Lae]

I'm currently on a 2011 15" MACbook PRO, and decided if anyone else was on the dark side and needed help with installing or using the game/ character creator that there should be an easy to read thread for the process.

4/18
With the character creator I was initially unable to save my characters. I discovered this was likely do to write permissions since I was using VMware Fusion 3 and a version of WinXP. After a bit of fiddling with turning the shared folders on an off, I was able to save my character files.

While using my virtual machines I usually get around a 2000 score on the benchmark. It hasn't allowed me to turn on the shaders. While I think this would probably be playable, I want to see how well I can make this Macbook run PSO2.

I've made a backup with SuperDuper! of my whole HD and OS and I am preparing to make a partition for Bootcamp to see how much of an improvement there will be on an "actual" Windows machine rather than a virtual one.

I have about 14 hours to figure out bootcamp and install windows and the beta onto there. I'll update with any hiccups or progress.

[Aiex]

I've never had any problems running on Mac. I have a 2010 iMac with min specs, so I'm sure you'll be fine. If it's not in a virtual machine it is literally no different than any other PC.

[Kudwafter]

I'm on a 2011 27" Imac running windows 8, installing bootcamp is not that hard actually, it's better then running the game in VMWare

[Skyly]

13inch 2011 MacBook Pro
Windows 7 via bootcamp
Game runs smoothly so far.

Any suggestions on playing with my Xbox 360 controller while running bootcamp? Will I need special drivers or is it just plug and play?

[Kudwafter]

13inch 2011 MacBook Pro
Windows 7 via bootcamp
Game runs smoothly so far.

Any suggestions on playing with my Xbox 360 controller while running bootcamp? Will I need special drivers or is it just plug and play?

Should be plug in and play if you have a wired controller, if you have a wireless controller you'll need an wireless adapter, alternativly you can use a PS3 controller with DS3Tool(i think that's what it's called) and set it to basically emulator a xbox 360 controller

[Quebe_Lae]

Update:

"Which versions of Windows work with Boot Camp 4.0?

You can use Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, or Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate with Boot Camp 4.0. Windows XP and Windows Vista are not supported with Boot Camp 4.0. "

Welp. Hrm. Any ideas? I really don't feel like splurging $200 on a Japanese enabled Win7 when I have a perfectly serviceable Windows XP key.

[Rhypht]

Yeah, I'm running Windows 7 through bootcamp on a brand new 27" iMac as well. Boot camp took me about an hour to completely finish, and it has been working flawlessly ever since.

[Clunker]

This thread is relevant to my interests.

Looks like several folks have a setup like me (2011 MacBook Pro), so I'm curious to see the best way to run PSO2 without buying a windows machine.

I was thinking of "Bootcamp" + Win7 Premium... But will be keeping eyes on this thread.

[Kudwafter]

Update:

"Which versions of Windows work with Boot Camp 4.0?

You can use Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, or Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate with Boot Camp 4.0. Windows XP and Windows Vista are not supported with Boot Camp 4.0. "

Welp. Hrm. Any ideas? I really don't feel like splurging $200 on a Japanese enabled Win7 when I have a perfectly serviceable Windows XP key.

I still think i'm using boot camp version 3.1, should be able to find it online somewhere

[Quebe_Lae]

I still think i'm using boot camp version 3.1, should be able to find it online somewhere

T_T I think I'm SOL since I'm running on Lion.... Uuuuaaagh. Time to ask father for a present?