Wine (installing windows apps on mac)

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 16 Jul 2011 at 14:37

Trying to run command and conquer 4 for PC via WINE for mac.. It keeps complaining about a disk not been in the drive. Its a downloaded version from EA online..

Skyboat · 16 Jul 2011 at 21:03

I had absolute hell getting Wine to recognise any DVD content and gave up. My advise is to either run Parallels and give as much resources to it as you can, or use BootCamp. Either method have in my experience both resulted in better performance over Wine.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 17 Jul 2011 at 01:31

Skyboat said:
I had absolute hell getting Wine to recognise any DVD content and gave up. My advise is to either run Parallels and give as much resources to it as you can, or use BootCamp. Either method have in my experience both resulted in better performance over Wine.

Ok I'll ditch it then. Theres something called Crossover which looks good but its got no lion support

uniQ · 17 Jul 2011 at 09:42

Virtualization or bootcamp is the best option if you own a copy of Windows. Wine and Crossover are OK for low end gaming and software but far from being particularly stable.

Serenityxo · 17 Jul 2011 at 10:25

+1 for Parallels

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 17 Jul 2011 at 10:50

Ive used Parallels before and I was massively disappointed with it. Maybe ok on a big MacPro with resources to shed.

NickK · 17 Jul 2011 at 14:38

Parallels works fine, the main issue I have is that the current release 6 only has a max of 256 VRAM support - which, considering the laptop I'm sat at has 1GB of VRAM..

whitecrook · 17 Jul 2011 at 14:40

vmware fusion here, works alright

uniQ · 17 Jul 2011 at 15:19

Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
Ive used Parallels before and I was massively disappointed with it. Maybe ok on a big MacPro with resources to shed.

Virtualization just requires plenty of RAM. I run Parallels on a 13" MBP with 8GB RAM. 4GB for OSX and 4GB for Windows and its no slouch.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 17 Jul 2011 at 17:34

uniQ said:
Virtualization just requires plenty of RAM. I run Parallels on a 13" MBP with 8GB RAM. 4GB for OSX and 4GB for Windows and its no slouch.

We're talking about running a intense game like Command and Conquer 4 though?

Dewotter · 17 Jul 2011 at 17:56

Then bootcamp. Parallels is good for some 3d things but gaming isn't one. Wine and Crossover would not be fully native either in terms of getting everything out of the GPU.

NickK · 17 Jul 2011 at 18:40

Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
We're talking about running a intense game like Command and Conquer 4 though?

It plays World of Tanks ok within the VM. The VRAM limit is the pain point. However if you're going to seriously game then run bootcamp.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 17 Jul 2011 at 22:36

Is it possible to run bootcamp with Lion GM?

Skyboat · 17 Jul 2011 at 23:13

Yep. Business as usual.

K1LLSW1TCH · 19 Jul 2011 at 22:24

Boot Camp is probably the best option in terms of performance and stability. I've had nothing but trouble when trying to use games with Wine.