After installing it on both the Parallels and Fusion VMs, I began a quick game against the AI.
The NVIDIA GT 330M and its 512MB of memory should be able to handle the games we chose to test with, but how they handle them within a VM is another thing altogether.Īge of Empires II HD, remade to not look horrible at today’s resolutions, was the first game that we tested. Keep in mind that this is a somewhat older MacBook, a “Mid 2010” to be exact. I started out by installing Steam and then downloading Age of Empires II HD, Half-Life 2 and to change things up a bit, GRID 2. In this article, using both Parallels and Fusion, I attempted to play a handful of games. I know that’s quite the oversimplification, but the point I am trying to make is that the running Windows on your Mac for gaming purposes only is not advisable in this editor’s honest opinion. With that being said, you are still running games within a virtual machine that sits ON TOP of the OS X operating system that is running directly off of your hardware. There are games that you can play, and like most computers, the greater the hardware, the better the experience. What kind of games can I play and how well do they run? When answered honestly, I say not well. One of the questions I get asked often when I discuss running Windows on my Mac is gaming.
