SH4 on Mac via Windows 8 Bootcamp?

Bugsi · 07-18-15, 03:17 AM

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.

07-18-15, 03:17 AM	#12
Bugsi Swabbie Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: California Posts: 8 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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.