john82088 Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Does anyone fly x-plane 10 using windows on their mac machine with boot camp? If so, are you pleased with the results? Also, does anyone use VAFS5 with boot camp? Does it work with boot camp? Thanks in advance for any advice anyone can offer. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benedikt S. Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Hey Why should you run X-Plane 10 on Bootcamp when you can run it directly in Mac OS X? The Results will be not better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john82088 Posted April 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Unfortunately, there are some addons that are not made for Mac and quite a few VA's require use of those addons to participate with them..John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousUser68 Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 If you have a Nividia graphics card you should see improved performance in Windows. This is because the drivers are superior. A good example of this can be seen here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/topic/4305-fps-testing-for-fun-and-profit/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpny Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Hey Why should you run X-Plane 10 on Bootcamp when you can run it directly in Mac OS X? The Results will be not better! Actually you will see considerably higher frame rates in Windows than OS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruster Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Actually you will see considerably higher frame rates in Windows than OS X. Get out. I run Win7/Win8 in VMWare Fusion VMs currently, although I've never tried to load XPlane (for obvious reasons). If it will actually run faster under Windows via Bootcamp on the same hardware, I'll wipe the VMs and dual boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpny Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 (edited) Get out. I run Win7/Win8 in VMWare Fusion VMs currently, although I've never tried to load XPlane (for obvious reasons). If it will actually run faster under Windows via Bootcamp on the same hardware, I'll wipe the VMs and dual boot. It's an issue of GPUs and drivers. Currently the fastest officially supported GPU is the 680 MX in the big iMacs. It's a good card, just a tick behind the 7950. Problem is, nVidia's OS X drivers are very young and, at them moment, don't even support instancing. This means you're going to have to turn your object settings way, way down to avoid killing fps. The fastest supported cards in the Mac Pros is the three year-old 5870, which just doesn't have the horsepower for v10. You can do what I've done and put a PC GPU in your Mac (4GB SC 670 in my case) but then you run into the driver problem. Opening the x737 at KSEA with a lot of objects means 15 fps. A PC 7950 (or the recently announced EVGA Mac 7950) may be a good card, as AMD's OS X drivers are much better than nVidia's, but Apple's support for the 7000-series cards are very new and I would wait for someone else to test it before dropping the $300-$500 for a 7950. tl;dr: nVidia's OS X drivers are terrible, handicapping the big iMac and any high-end nVidia card. AMD's drivers are better, but support for the 7000-series cards is new. edit: I run ME3 in a Parallels Windows 7 VM and it flies. Edited April 8, 2013 by dpny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruster Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Hrmm, I'm on a late-2011 MBP 15" with the discrete AMD (6770M) and 1GB of dedicated VRAM. I don't get horrible frame rates in XP10 (32-bit), but they could be better. I may just have to give this a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john82088 Posted April 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 I am definitely going to give this a try and see what happens. Thank you for the comments.John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicbunch Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 I am currently running bootcamp for FSX but X-plane runs much better in OS X so I will continue flying it in OS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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