Liverpoolirish

I feel for you man. I have a macbook pro and I can't afford a new windows rig. I run bootcamp just for DayZ. My MBP barely handles it. If you're running it on a MBP I hope its up to it because you can't upgrade your graphics card or cpu. You have to buy a whole new logic board (motherboard) as they are soldered directly onto it. Thats the cost of a new desktop pc that could run the game well. If you don't know what you're doing you've got a bit of work to do before you're going to be playing DayZ on your mac. You could make a virtual pc using parallel desktop or vmware fusion software. It runs windows like an app in OSX (which can be full screened). You can have windows running alongside OSX and can instantly jump between the two, which is pretty cool. However, you must leave some of your system's potential power allocated to running OSX. Not recommended if your Mac is not a beast. Dayz is not finished and its not well optimised. It will definately perform better on bootcamp. If you have bootcamp installed you just hold down alt when you turn on your machine and it will as which os you want to use. Bootcamp lets you use your entire cpu, all your cores and graphics hardware to their full potential. I'd advise you to watch some youtube tutorials before doing it. If you're careless you could fuck up your OSX partition. It'll assign some of your hard drive to windows and format it installation. you'll probably want to give it at least 50gb if you plan on playing other windows only games (so many games!). 100gb or more is better as its very tricky to make the partition bigger afterwards. Bootcamp will guide you through the process. Then it will restart your mac and install windows. This will take a bit of time. Once you've sorted that out you will need to install all the drivers to enable windows to use all of your hardware to its full potential. Bootcamp will download them for you or you can download them from apple. You need to install them in safemode and then restart normally or they wont work. Then you'll have to download and install some graphics stuff from from microsoft. Then register for steam and install it. Then install the game. Then you have to install battle eye and change your firewall settings to allow it to work so you can join a server. If your cpu and gpu are not up to spec it will never run well. You may have to tweak some in game settings before you get an acceptable fps rate. You can also edit a file to gain a few fps at the loss of some graphics quality. There are youtube tutorials on doing this. If you're running windows 7 on a macbook pro the cooling fan drivers are not great and the cpu can overheat pretty easily. The game is cpu intensive and when the it gets hot the performance will drop. I installed macs fan control (freeware) and I crank the fan rpm up to 4000 to keep my computer cool enough to run it because it finds it stressful. You'll want to be getting at least a consistant 25fps to survive firefights. Lag will get you killed and you'll start again on the coast with nothing. fps will drop in large towns for most players. Also you'll need a mic to get the most out of the game.