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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#21 - 2012-02-06 04:47:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
When I did the pre-purchase research Parallels Desktop 7 had an edge on VMWare over graphic performance, so I went that route.

Performance and stability are excellent, haven't looked back. All settings on high, except medium shaders and captains quarters interiors. Late 2011 iMac 27 16GB with 1GB video card; 4gb RAM & 512m vid ram to VM, 12gb & 512 vid ram to OSX -- but it ran just fine with 256m in each before I realized I could split it 512/512 :)

Would you like to know more?
Amanda Fuller
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#22 - 2012-02-07 09:06:40 UTC
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen wrote:

Performance and stability are excellent, haven't looked back. All settings on high, except medium shaders and captains quarters interiors. Late 2011 iMac 27 16GB with 1GB video card; 4gb RAM & 512m vid ram to VM, 12gb & 512 vid ram to OSX -- but it ran just fine with 256m in each before I realized I could split it 512/512 :)

I bought Parallels Desktop 7 (as part of a Mac software bundle) yesterday.
Unfortunately I had to reinstall Windows XP again, because it's not possible to import a VirtualBox VM into Parallels.
But the work was worth every second. The Windows Eve clients run really great in Parallels!
I am using an iMac (late 2011), 12 GB RAM, 2 GB video RAM (4 GB RAM and 1 GB video RAM for the VM)
Zirse
Risktech Analytics
#23 - 2012-02-07 19:36:51 UTC
Thanks everyone.

Does anti-aliasing work? How does the CQ look? Would anyone mind posting screenshots?
Umbriele
Natural Inventions
#24 - 2012-03-07 13:13:51 UTC
I just switched from PC to an IMac yesterday.

This is my experience so far.

Old PC:
AMD Phenom II X4 965
Nvidia 560Ti 1680x1050 all possible graphich options to MAX
4 gb ram 1033
over 150 FPS
600 euro value used machine
client log in few seconds

IMac:
6770M 21.5" 1920x1080
i7 2.8 ghz
4 gb ram 1333
all possible graphic setting to max, but AA turned off
1600 euro value new machine

cant reach 30 fps all the time
client takes minutes to load...

will try native eve client on bootcamp win7 later
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#25 - 2012-05-24 17:45:27 UTC
Umbriele wrote:
I just switched from PC to an IMac yesterday.

This is my experience so far.

Old PC:
AMD Phenom II X4 965
Nvidia 560Ti 1680x1050 all possible graphich options to MAX
4 gb ram 1033
over 150 FPS
600 euro value used machine
client log in few seconds

IMac:
6770M 21.5" 1920x1080
i7 2.8 ghz
4 gb ram 1333
all possible graphic setting to max, but AA turned off
1600 euro value new machine

cant reach 30 fps all the time
client takes minutes to load...

will try native eve client on bootcamp win7 later


Mirrors my experience, IMHO Parallels or VMWare w/ native Win client is a must for a Mac user to play EVE long term; same performance as boot camping, without the re-boot out of OSX.

I'm even running two windows EVE clients in a single Parallels VM on my iMac 27" i7, and alt-tabbing between the two clients -- both at 60FPS.... :)

Would you like to know more?
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