Crossover for Mac and GPUs

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• angrysprite Member Posts: 4,982 Arc User

  March 2013 edited March 2013

  Have you tried Bootcamp method?
  
  I apologize I'm not answering your question directly. But I've done the Bootcamp way and it's a LOT better than emulation through Parallels or VMWare Fusion. As for what you're asking, I apologize again as that's a touch out of my comfort zone to answer.

  

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• gridwarden Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  March 2013 edited March 2013

  angrysprite wrote: »

  Have you tried Bootcamp method?
  
  I apologize I'm not answering your question directly. But I've done the Bootcamp way and it's a LOT better than emulation through Parallels or VMWare Fusion. As for what you're asking, I apologize again as that's a touch out of my comfort zone to answer.

  
  I'd like to avoid bootcamping/dual booting. WINE/Crossover does NOT emulate Windows, it pretty much ports the game to my OS.

  
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• lihin23nihil Member Posts: 229 Arc User

  March 2013 edited March 2013

  gridwarden wrote: »

  This question is for those playing Neverwinter via WINE or Crossover:
  
  Since I've been enjoying this game so much, I'm seriously considering building a hackintosh to play on High (not Ultra) graphics setting. How is Crossover's performance with the midrange nVidia and Radeon GPUs? Which card should I get if I allocate ~$300 for it?

  
  I'm not going to make a recommendation as I have no experience with Hackintoshes or Crossover on OSX, however I have played this game through Wine on Linux. Here's the CPU/GPU which I played with High visual settings at 1680x1050 and was comfortable with the performance. Since you are talking about building a system I'll list CPU as well as I feel this is important for Wine.
  
  CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
  GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 550Ti 1GB
  
  If your budget is just for GPU then presumably you'd get a much better graphics card than that as it's a couple of years old now.

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• gridwarden Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  March 2013 edited March 2013

  Great, that's good to know. I was wondering if the nVidia GTX 660 Ti would be good enough for High visual settings and you confirmed it.
  
  Should I bother with 16GB RAM or will 8GB do?

  
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• lihin23nihil Member Posts: 229 Arc User

  March 2013 edited March 2013

  gridwarden wrote: »

  Should I bother with 16GB RAM or will 8GB do?

  
  You could probably get away with 2GB of RAM tbh but RAM's cheap and you'll find a use for more I guess. I have 16GB but use this machine for more than playing games - I typically have a VM or two chugging away in the background. I don't recall seeing Neverwinter taking more than 1GB but it may have done so at times.
  
  If I needed a new GPU I'd probably go with a GTX 660Ti definitely a step up in performance and memory. Again though my experience is with Linux not OSX and I've stuck with NV cards for the last 10 years out of habit - ymmv.

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