minecraftgaming71 0 Posted June 20, 2015 Hello, i recently baught dayz for my mac but it says windows required when will it be available for mac? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nuggit 246 Posted June 20, 2015 :huh: I am sure if you bothered to do any research, you would have discovered this. From the steam page. System RequirementsMINIMUM:OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 SP1 Processor: Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 or AMD Radeon HD 5850 or Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 512 MB VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Hard Drive: 10 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX®-compatible On a positive note, all is not lost on you. Bootcamp 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soulfirez 901 Posted June 20, 2015 Hello, i recently baught dayz for my mac but it says windows required when will it be available for mac?I do not believe there is any official plans to do a mac version. So that means it could be never..... My advice boot camp windows on your mac and play it now rather than wait for something that may or may not happen.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
minecraftgaming71 0 Posted June 20, 2015 I do not believe there is any official plans to do a mac version. So that means it could be never..... My advice boot camp windows on your mac and play it now rather than wait for something that may or may not happen.. Can u give me the link to bootcamp if there is one? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ColdAtrophy 1850 Posted June 20, 2015 Can u give me the link to bootcamp if there is one? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=installing+windows+with+bootcamp 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kichilron 8550 Posted June 20, 2015 DayZ is not available for Mac, nor the other way around - as you titled it. Make sure you do your research and if you're a mac user anyway, there's almost no way you've never heard of bootcamp before. Make sure you search the Forum, as there's tons of Information about this available. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baker. 1484 Posted June 20, 2015 what are the specs on your mac? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Liverpoolirish 0 Posted June 22, 2015 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bonesnap 75 Posted June 23, 2015 There is also Parellels for Mac: http://www.parallels.com/ca/products/desktop/ (Runs Windows as a virtual OS on a Mac PC) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mercules 1290 Posted June 23, 2015 There is also Parellels for Mac: http://www.parallels.com/ca/products/desktop/ (Runs Windows as a virtual OS on a Mac PC)Parallels is worse for operating Windows software on a Mac. Now you are running an OS inside an OS with both eating resources. Now you have 2 layers between you and the hardware which often isn't ideal for gaming. Long story short... Don't play games on a Mac, they are not made for it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
