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    How well does steam run in boot camp win7

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by michaeljean, Oct 6, 2011.

  1. michaeljean

    michaeljean Notebook Consultant

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    I wanted to know before I buy a macbook pro 15 the newest model, if use windows 7 do games look just as good as they did if they were made of osx?
     
    michaeljean, Oct 6, 2011
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    Bootcamp is a utility that helps you set up a Windows dual boot. When you boot into Windows its just like any other Windows PC... so you can run Steam or any other Windows software, because you are using a Windows PC at that point.
     
    doh123, Oct 6, 2011
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    shriek11 Notebook Deity

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    So if i run bootcamp, can I install the windows from a flash drive? I did that on an xp laptop where I just ran this windows 7 install file right from the desktop.
     
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    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    Only if you have the rEFIt efi hack installed. otherwise you cant do that, unless you swapped your mbp 15 for a mba
     
    Karamazovmm, Oct 6, 2011
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  5. shriek11

    shriek11 Notebook Deity

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    So, with mac boot camp, will I always get an option to go to win 7 / xp (whatever system I install) and Mac OS X each time? I am just wondering since that would make the mac start up slow and closer to windows machines.

    Also, I guess I will be able to access files stored on Mac OS X (like a word document in OS X that I saved under documents), but does Time Machine save and recover the settings of the windows portion of the operating system as well?
     
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    Nick Professor Carnista

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    Same as it runs on on a Windows laptop.
     
    Nick, Oct 6, 2011
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  7. Mitlov

    Mitlov Shiny

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    Steam games run just fine in Windows via boot camp. I spent plenty of time playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 on Steam before I got a new HDD and got rid of my Windows Boot Camp partition.

    Steam in OSX is another matter...neither the steam application itself nor Steam games ever ran that well for me in OSX. Half the time the games wouldn't load, and even when they did, Team Fortress 2 had poor framerates (even though the hardware I've got would have been totally adequate for it in Windows).
     
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  8. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    no, you click on windows the bootcamp program (its in the system tray), and select the OS that it should start by default. If for example you select it to boot by default on OSX you have to press and hold option before and during the grey screen that loads the EFI, so that the bootloader appears, thus enabling you to load windows. you can read all this on the bootcamp pdf provided by apple



    No, unless you install a program that enables windows to read HFS+ you wont be able to read any docs that are stored in the OSX partition within windows. What I did to solve this is to partition the HDD 3 times, one for windows, one for OSX and one for data.

    OSX - HFS+
    Windows - NTFS
    Data - ExFat

    so what I did is to move the home folder from OSX to data, and to move the library system from windows 2008 R2 to the same folders, thus I can access the files from whichever system Im booting, its more tiresome to set up, but its easier to keep things running while doing this.
     
    Karamazovmm, Oct 7, 2011
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