Mac is back

daveak

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Looks like with the latest version of Parallels (15) us Mac owners can play without boot camping as it supports DX11 now using Metal (see Frontier it can be done :p ). Looks to perform just as well as the native Mac version used to, except with all the features! Only undocked so far, but the planets look great.
 

Rad1971

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Hi,
I also tried Parallels 15 on my MBP 2017 (first time I bought Parallels on day one! :) ) from my bootcamp partition and it works indeed but for now quite slower than the "old" Mac version.
I also did only undock - flyby -dock but in my case I manage to have 20-30 FPS on low settings and HD resolution, quite lower than what I used to have and what I can achieve in bootcamp.

I am still in Mojave though, most probably the new Metal version in Catalina should improve everything massively (in fact Parallels mentions explicitly E:D compatibility with Catalina)

These are indeed great news (I tried to Bootcamp but am somehow too lazy to just reboot only for a short trip in space...), if only Frontier would now use the new Apple game framework natively.....
I would probably end buying an eGPU! ;)

Rad
 

CMDR Karrde Sun

CMDR Karrde Sun
I try to avoid parallels. They actually prevent you from installing it on “non supported” versions of macOS.. if you don’t subscribe to their software however you pay for it you loose access to it if you upgrade macOS at some point.

Will wait for fusion to catch up, it’s almost there.

Edit: do you have a thunderbolt 3 Mac? The cheap thunderbolt ssds have the same read write as sata ssds.. better alternative if you have the port. Probably costs around the same as a year of parallels rentals, lol
 
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Delilah

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Give Shadow a try. I've been using it for months now and it works quite well. USB peripherals are now enabled so those using HOTAS have some joy. There are times in development where everything isn't perfect, but the devs and support are remarkably present and helpful, and overall I'm both happy and impressed. https://shadow.tech/usen
 

Rad1971

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Actually I always bought the licence version, not the subscription, and never had any problem wit older versions, besides the fact that now Parallels allows you to install on 1 Mac per licence only. I still have an iMac with Parallels 12 and 3 MacOS updates behind!

As for Shadow, I paid 50 CHF for the Parallels 15 licence, and Shadow is 34 CHF per month. Given that I would use it only for some Elite play, probably I am better served so, together with the hopes for a Metal powered Cobra engine! :)
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
IndigoWyrd said:
“I paid 4.6 times the price of a regular PC, including 4 layers of additional software just to play a Windows game on a Mac. See how much smarter I am than Windows users?”

“Yep, you sure showed them.”
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My MacBook Pro has been the most reliable laptop I've ever owned. It's more than paid for itself, considering I've had it for 8 years and it's as good as the day I bought it.

That said, I wouldn't buy the rubbish laptops Apple is selling these days. Hopefully newer PC laptops have copied all the good qualities of the older MacBooks while ignoring all of Jony Ive's useless hippy magic. "This is the thinnest laptop we've ever made." Uh hu.
 

MickyG1982

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Old Duck said:
My MacBook Pro has been the most reliable laptop I've ever owned. It's more than paid for itself, considering I've had it for 8 years and it's as good as the day I bought it.

That said, I wouldn't buy the rubbish laptops Apple is selling these days. Hopefully newer PC laptops have copied all the good qualities of the older MacBooks while ignoring all of Jony Ive's useless hippy magic. "This is the thinnest laptop we've ever made." Uh hu.
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I have an 10 year old HP Pavillion laptop that has been all over the world with me, been caked in desert sand, dropped at airport security, pulled apart to be donated to other laptops & finally put together again still boots with no issues (though it is bloody slow). An even older Toshiba Satellite (circa 2003) with a Celeron M (think mobile pentium 3) Battery is knackered but still boots linux with no issues at all. An old Dell D520 that is still happily whirring away without issues, and a 2007 Sony Laptop that is still perfectly serviceable (both of which I gave to a friend of mine). All of them are 10+ years old & the only thing that has failed on each & every one, the battery, I genuinely wouldn't say that old PC's were bad at all.

Of course I couldn't play ED on any of them (I tried once on the old Pavilion, it booted but that was about it) but it did work.
 

daveak

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So after trying playing a bit more, not really an option. When new textures need to load in there is a big pause, including in combat. A slight cosmetic problem also with faces, they look like you are playing minecraft, not elite. So close, but no cigar.

The texture loading problem is apparently a problem with all DX11 games under Parallels.
 
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daveak

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CMDR Karrde Sun said:
Edit: do you have a thunderbolt 3 Mac? The cheap thunderbolt ssds have the same read write as sata ssds.. better alternative if you have the port. Probably costs around the same as a year of parallels rentals, lol
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I do, but that doesn't help. I don't want to reboot whenever I want to play elite. I have an older mac boot camped for the sole purpose of playing, but I can never be bothered to go through the hassle of turning it on.
 

ciVic

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I'm trying to run it on Catalina with Parallels 15 running Windows 10 1909, but I only get an error message that it is not compatible with my windows version. Is anyone else trying it to play with Parallels?

Edit: Ok seems a 32 Bit Windows :LOL:
 

jim25

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Thanks for the reply's I was just wondering If anyone with a M1 apple was playing ED. There are a lot of games that run under rosetta 2 that work, but I haven't seen ED in the list.
 

Kamiyoda

Kamiyoda
Old Duck said:
My MacBook Pro has been the most reliable laptop I've ever owned. It's more than paid for itself, considering I've had it for 8 years and it's as good as the day I bought it.

That said, I wouldn't buy the rubbish laptops Apple is selling these days. Hopefully newer PC laptops have copied all the good qualities of the older MacBooks while ignoring all of Jony Ive's useless hippy magic. "This is the thinnest laptop we've ever made." Uh hu.
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Does it still work?

Inquiring minds would like to know
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
jim25 said:
Thanks for the reply's I was just wondering If anyone with a M1 apple was playing ED. There are a lot of games that run under rosetta 2 that work, but I haven't seen ED in the list.
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Rosetta 2, as I understand it, converts macOS Intel code to run on Apple silicon. There is no macOS version of ED for Resetta to convert.
 
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