Dangerous, on a 2009 Mac Pro...

Copper Mike

Copper Mike
Greetings all,

I just joined the forum a few days ago, and purchased ED yesterday. I was hesitant because of the listed system requirements. I am happy to say that I ran the program on my Bootcamp'ed Mac Pro.

I have a 2009 Mac Pro, 2.93GHz, 8-core processor. 24 GB of RAM, and running through the stock NVIDIA GeForce GT120 with only 512 MB graphics RAM. The video ram was the part I worried about, but with only running the game one time so far, it appears that I can play. I haven't experimented with the graphic settings yet, so I won't know the full capability for some time. Yippee....!

Elite Frontier was my favorite game on my old Amiga 2000 back in the 1980's, and I suspect that Dangerous will only continue where I left off.


mike
 

Devil's Refugee

Devil's Refugee
2014 MBP 13" with Intel Iris 1.5Gb, it runs with mixed High/ Medium settings and mid-20s framerate. I suspect you'll have to dial it down a notch for it to be really playable when the action starts but I've found ED isn't that intensive on the specs so far. Suspect running this on an iMac with 1440 display would look incredible.
 

Whisanders

W
Got the same Mac Pro as me, I upgraded the graphics card, runs the game fine. I also use the rift on it and it runs ok also.... Looking forward to having it setup native in OSX in the next few months.
 
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Terry Bruge-Hiplo

Terry Bruge-Hiplo
I'm running on my early 2011 MBP (16GB RAM upgrade) and it runs pretty reasonably at low/custom-low settings with a few things turned on, but I've been getting the dreaded audio stuttering problem since, I don't know, 1.03 maybe. Frame rate generally never dips below 20, and usually stays around 40-50 in space, but audio still stutters badly at times, particularly in heavy combat. I'm really hoping the native OS X version won't be plagued with that!

Also got an old early 2008 Mac Pro, with upgraded Radeon HD 5870, waiting for native build, as I can't Boot Camp due to my partition config. Quite curious to see how that'll run. I'm not optimistic! Currently considering building a Hackintosh as a replacement, once I can figure out how to fund it!
 

NapalmJunkie

NapalmJunkie
Terry Bruge-Hiplo said:
Also got an old early 2008 Mac Pro, with upgraded Radeon HD 5870, waiting for native build, as I can't Boot Camp due to my partition config. Quite curious to see how that'll run. I'm not optimistic! Currently considering building a Hackintosh as a replacement, once I can figure out how to fund it!
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Good luck! I too drew a blank trying to Bootcamp a 2008 MacPro. Annoying as it's still a very useful box, but MacOS X is now really exceeding what the hardware can do. So with a very heavy heart my MacPro has been retired and replaced with an iMac. I don't really like iMacs but the latest MacMini specs are a joke and the new MacPro is extremely expensive.

I'm still waiting for the MacOS version though, getting tired of (sluggish) Windows.
 

Terry Bruge-Hiplo

Terry Bruge-Hiplo
Mike, let us know how it goes. I'm eager to hear the results :)

NapalmJunkie said:
Good luck! I too drew a blank trying to Bootcamp a 2008 MacPro. Annoying as it's still a very useful box, but MacOS X is now really exceeding what the hardware can do. So with a very heavy heart my MacPro has been retired and replaced with an iMac. I don't really like iMacs but the latest MacMini specs are a joke and the new MacPro is extremely expensive.

I'm still waiting for the MacOS version though, getting tired of (sluggish) Windows.
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Yeah, it seems if you don't put the BC partition on the primary drive, it fails to boot. And the latest Boot Camp utility just doesn't like the hardware. Quite infuriating! I'd be interested to know which iMac you went for, and how well it performs. Could you PM me the details? So as not to derail the thread any further!
 

Copper Mike

Copper Mike
Greetings Whisanders!
What kind of card did you get. I've only had this 2009 Mac Pro for a month... got a great deal on it. In researching Mac Pro video cards, I found myself confused as to which cards support the EMI Boot screen, and which don't. The Mac video cards seem awfully pricey too. Any tips you have would be appreciated.
 

Whisanders

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Hi Mike. My card came out of a windows machine so has no EFI boot till the os boots, If you boot camp you will see the windows splash screen.

If you want to have the apple boot screen you can flash them but I think it's more hassle than it's worth with the risk of killing the card. Also might be worth looking at using a piggy back card to have the boot EFI show up. But I'm happy with the way it boots at the moment. As your into the os in less than a minute.

Edit: The Nvidia 970 & 980 have Yosemite driver support so that would be a awesome upgrade path.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1787697

you are also going to need to use the power connecter from the optical bay drive to run the newer cards I had todo this on mine.
 
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