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    Gaming on boot camp/parallels.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by MYK, Jan 7, 2007.

  1. MYK

    MYK Newbie NBR Reviewer

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    I partitioned my MBP's hard drive with 11 GB for windows and the rest for OSX. I did this to download :rainbow six vegas". The game is 5GB, windows along with it's update took 4GB, leaving me with 2GB for future patches and/or expansions. While purchasing online, another game caught my attention. It is not very demaning, and is 2gb. This is what it said in game requirements:

    Intel(R) Pentium (R) III processor or AMD(R) Athlon(TM) processor
    Processor Speed: 800 MHz
    Windows(R) XP / 2000 / Me / 98 Second Edition (SE)
    This game will not run on Windows XP 64
    256 MB RAM
    DirectX(R) 9.0b or higher
    32 MB AGP(R) video card supporting Hardware Transform and Lighting capability using NVIDIA(R) GeForce2(TM), ATI(R) Radeon(TM) 7500, or a more recent chipset with a DirectX(R) 9-compatible driver
    DirectX(R) 9-compatible sound card and speakers or headphones
    Minimum 3 GB hard drive space
    Keyboard and mouse

    With no room on boot camped windows partitinon and no energy left in me to go through boot camp again, is there any possible way to expand the size of windows partition through boot camp? I think I'll need 20GB in stead of 11GB for windows.

    If not, can I maybe run this game on parallels?
     
    MYK, Jan 7, 2007
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Maybe gparted could offer you something. You could of course wipe the drive and start fresh.
     
    ZaZ, Jan 7, 2007
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  3. MYK

    MYK Newbie NBR Reviewer

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    I don't have the energy for doing that, it's either expanding the partition in a way or parallels.
     
    MYK, Jan 7, 2007
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    an external hd? or a 4gb flash/thumbdrive?
     
    jujube, Jan 7, 2007
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  5. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    You should be able to resize partitions with Partition Magic. gparted might be able to do it too.
     
    Jalf, Jan 7, 2007
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    GParted is a little tricky when dealing with Mac's HFS+ file format system. When I used it last I had to manually tell it which sectors of the disk to deformat and then reformat into another system.
     
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    Qhs Notebook Evangelist

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    Right now, Parallels has no 3D support so that is out the window.
     
    Qhs, Jan 7, 2007
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    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    You cannot change the size of a Boot Camp partition via Windows, as Windows does not recognise the Mac HFS file system. Boot Camp Beta currently does not support resizing its partition. Your only option would be to create a backup image of your current Boot Camp partition using the Disk Utility, remove your current Boot Camp partition, create a new larger Boot Camp partition, and restore the image to the new partition.
    You might have to re-install all your programs however.
     
    Budding, Jan 7, 2007
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