SH4 on Mac via Windows 8 Bootcamp?

[Bugsi]

I can confirm that SH4 totally works on a current MacBook Pro Retina 15" running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit on an external SSD USB3 drive. After I installed it, it didn't appear to run. I set SH4.exe to compatibility mode for Vista SP2, and that didn't seem to help. I tried setting video mode to 16-bit and no display scaling, and that didn't help, until after a reboot. It ran fine then. It actually ran great. The hardware of the current MacBook Pro Retina 15" with quad-core i7 is better than almost any PC laptop and the speed of running Windows 8.1 64 bit off an external SSD via USB3 was great. Once again, getting Windows set up as an external Boot Camp drive is tricky (see my earlier post with link to how to do that), but it works perfectly. I presume if you partitioned your Mac's drive and installed Windows with Boot Camp the traditional way, it would work just as well.

[d@rk51d3]

Bugsi. Do you have the discrete GPU, or just the base intel pro setup?

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

Probably more to do with active support, or lack thereof, of older Windows versions.

Try running IOS on your PC. Unless all your components are spot on, you're gonna end up with a pile of fail.
I was looking at hackintosh myself, but I dont have the time or inclination anymore to do all the screwing around.

Dollar for dollar, they're about the same.

Yeah, definitely would want to copy a successful configuration first time out. I wonder if Steam will pressure Ubi to make SH4 (and the entire Silent Hunter series) work on Linux? My guess is that won't happen until Steam develops the market more, aided by Microsoft's really terrible moves lately with Win 8 and 8.1 trying to turn your computer into a cell phone, trying to take control of updates away from the user and general delusions of grandeur. Already Linux is more popular than all versions of OSX except for OSX 10.10.

These are interesting times. Competition breeds quality and we need more of both.

[Bugsi]

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

Bugsi. Do you have the discrete GPU, or just the base intel pro setup?

This MacBook Pro Retina 15" has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M discrete GPU but also has integrated Intel graphics. It can switch between them (at least in MacOS) for apps that are graphics intensive, vs battery-saving for apps that are not graphics intensive. In Windows 8.1 Pro via Bootcamp, only the NVIDIA GeForce GT750M shows up in Device Manager.

[merc4ulfate]

Again ... you do not need windows to run SH on a mac

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by merc4ulfate

Again ... you do not need windows to run SH on a mac

So Wine is a different product on Mac than Linux? Just how good is it there? Who develops it? Is it a free program?

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

So Wine is a different product on Mac than Linux? Just how good is it there? Who develops it? Is it a free program?

You ask 4 questions;
1 - I believe it has different interfaces to Linux kernel SW, but I don't use Linux
2 - there? On Mac very good, don't know Linux
3 - Google Wine
4 - yes

I no longer play SH 4 but when I did it was exclusively on my MacBook Pro, which is 4 years old, under Wine, a version from 2013-14. The 4gb fix was necessary to eliminate "most" crashes and run with Mods for the 16:9 screen res. I never could get Shmission editor to run as a Wine Custom Exe.

[kim44]

Running SH4 on a 2014 mac mini with boot camp windows 10. Works great with the intel iris 5100 graphics

[Aktungbby]

kim44!

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by kim44

Running SH4 on a 2014 mac mini with boot camp windows 10. Works great with the intel iris 5100 graphics

That's great news! So with Apple you actually have two great choices: WINE and Boot Camp.

[ETR3(SS)]

So in light of our "no wares" policy, how does running Windows on a Mac fit into that? Because I know installing a Mac OS on a PC is a violation of the terms, a legally binding contract.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

So in light of our "no wares" policy, how does running Windows on a Mac fit into that? Because I know installing a Mac OS on a PC is a violation of the terms, a legally binding contract.

Is this something I should be aware of on this forum?

If so, can you enlighten me further?

In the meantime....welcome to SubSim kim.