WiF under Parallels on a Mac?

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

WiF under Parallels on a Mac?

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> World in Flames >> WiF under Parallels on a Mac?

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

WiF under Parallels on a Mac? - 11/24/2013 5:56:59 PM

eliang

Posts: 10
Joined: 11/20/2005
Status: offline

Is anyone successfully running WiF under Parallels on the Mac? If so, how does it perform? I got a clunky Windows 8.1 laptop I bought for the sole purpose of playing WiF, and now my wife is snidely comparing it to laptops of the 90's... LOL

Post #: 1

RE: WiF under Parallels on a Mac? - 11/24/2013 6:14:06 PM

Dabrion

Posts: 733
Joined: 11/5/2013
From: Northpole
Status: offline

It should run fine in any virtual machine. If you can get a Windows up and running there should be no further problem. Try to allocate a little memory to the graphic card in the virtual machine and enable 2D graphics support if there is such an option in Parallels.

I have it run with VirtualBox (Oracle) unter KDE (Linux).

< Message edited by Dabrion -- 11/25/2013 12:28:14 AM >

(in reply to eliang)

Post #: 2

RE: WiF under Parallels on a Mac? - 11/24/2013 11:22:33 PM

henri51

Posts: 1151
Joined: 1/16/2009
Status: offline

I am running it on two different Macs with Windows 7 Pro under Bootcamp (one of the Macs is an I7 Imac with 4 processors and 8 threads and the other is an older Mac Pro with two dual core processors). As you probably know, this is exactly equivalent to a PC, all Bootcamp does is make the Mac peripherals (keyboard mouse etc) available to the PC.This should be significantly faster than running under Parallels, but I would not expect this particular game to require a very powerful machine, so Parallels might be OK.

(in reply to Dabrion)

Post #: 3

RE: WiF under Parallels on a Mac? - 11/25/2013 12:04:33 AM

delatbabel

Posts: 1252
Joined: 7/30/2006
From: Sydney, Australia
Status: offline

I am also running under Oracle VirtualBox under Linux, and I also have a Win7 partition on the same system. There is no significantly noticeable speed difference between the two.

_____________________________

--
Del

(in reply to henri51)

Post #: 4

RE: WiF under Parallels on a Mac? - 11/25/2013 1:52:22 AM

pirey4

Posts: 13
Joined: 5/26/2012
Status: offline

I'm running WiF under Parallels in a Window 7 VM on both my Macbook Air (2010 Model) and an IMac. It works fine on both machines. When compared to the iMac, the Macbook Air isn't has fast and the screen size isn't big (13" versus 27") but it is still usable on this machine. Scrolling at zoom level 1 on the Macbook Air is a bit slow but that is the only problem that I've noticed so far (higher zoom levels go much faster).

(in reply to eliang)

Post #: 5