FFXI on a Mac?

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I bought a new Mac laptop and was wondering if there's any way that I could get FFXI on this. I would love to play in bed. My ls buddy told me about something called boot camp on my computer which I found which could somehow get Windows XP on my Mac.

If anyone knows anything let me know.
 
If you don't have the latest OS, Leopard (you said it was new, so it was probably the one installed on it), it comes with Boot Camp which is a program that runs XP really well. It shouldn't be that difficult, although with a laptop you probably won't be able to run it very well.
 
Makelith said:
If you don't have the latest OS, Leopard (you said it was new, so it was probably the one installed on it), it comes with Boot Camp which is a program that runs XP really well. It shouldn't be that difficult, although with a laptop you probably won't be able to run it very well.
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So leopard runs Windows XP? I would have to get my windows XP discs and install it pretty much? And from there I can download FFXI?
 
It may not be worth it in the end to do it. Because what Boot Camp does is basically emulate the XP OS it takes up quite a bit of recourses and then top on to that how much FF will take up. I've never tried it, but i've never really wanted to run FF on my laptop.
 
My husband has run a windows partition on his Mac laptop specifically for FFXI. He also uses the laptop for work (uses a lot of virtual machines, but still has a lot of "work" applications on his desktop) and he doesn't have any issues with it at all. His connection is generally better than mine TBH. Also, he has used both Tiger and Leopard on his laptop and has never had a problem running FFXI from his windows partition for either OS.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1656
 
Linhjah said:
My husband has run a windows partition on his Mac laptop specifically for FFXI. He also uses the laptop for work (uses a lot of virtual machines, but still has a lot of "work" applications on his desktop) and he doesn't have any issues with it at all. His connection is generally better than mine TBH. Also, he has used both Tiger and Leopard on his laptop and has never had a problem running FFXI from his windows partition for either OS.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1656
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There you go then. I hardly ever run boot camp and thought it was like all the other windows emulators that just took up way too many resources to really be worth it. It seems i was wrong.
 
Linhjah said:
My husband has run a windows partition on his Mac laptop specifically for FFXI. He also uses the laptop for work (uses a lot of virtual machines, but still has a lot of "work" applications on his desktop) and he doesn't have any issues with it at all. His connection is generally better than mine TBH. Also, he has used both Tiger and Leopard on his laptop and has never had a problem running FFXI from his windows partition for either OS.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1656
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You are a God sent. Now I know it can be done, I'll just have to tinker with it until it's done. Thank you very much!
 
My husband is Methodtsi. Feel free to send him a PM or a /tell if you want info on his first hand experience or have any questions or anything. Glad I could be of assistance. :biggrin:
 
I have FFXI on my macbook also and it runs great. Boot Camp is superior at running windows than any virtual machine unless you wanna have both OS running. The partition though has to be at least 40 GB to hold FFXI and all expansions.
 
Like everyone said. Boot camp if you don't want to spend any money.

If you don't mind buying software to run XP. VM Fusion is probably the most stable and surprisingly worth-it buy.

Otherwise run two partitions using Bootcamp. Easy.
 
All bootcamp does is create a partition in your harddrive. It does it without having to reformat your entire drive - moving information to the appropriate region. Then you follow the onscreen instructions and install windows XP or Vista as you would on a PC.

I have a macbook pro - I got the top of the line version with all the bells and whistles, and I used bootcamp to put a vista partition on it. The only game on the Vista side is FFXI and it runs fine.

The one problem with macbooks running bootcamp is the sound/wifi driver. You might experience record player style crackling and popping when you use bootcamp windows with WiFi turned on. This is an acknowledged but unresolved driver issue. Other than that, FFXI is totally playable. It's the only way I play.
 
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Pompidou said:
I have a macbook pro - I got the top of the line version with all the bells and whistles, and I used bootcamp to put a vista partition on it. The only game on the Vista side is FFXI and it runs fine.
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That's what I got too, and now i'm going to be broke for a while. It's super fun. I have to go out and buy a new windows xp apparently, I guess because of the access code key?
 
Bootcamp is just a partition and "Windows driver disk" maker application for MAC OSX. It has been around since before OSX Tiger, but was released for beta testing on the Tiger disk.

It has since expired, and Leopard is required to use BootCamp "legally", however if you have .dmg laying around somewhere it will work.

As far as FFXI on a MAC, you are limited to really these two options:

1) Run Parallels or VMWare Fusion within the MAC OS, and enable Direct3D emulation. This is indeed a slow solution but will allow functional ffxi if you turn down the graphic configurations. Its not pretty, but if you really want to you can make it work.

2) Run Windows natively on the Mac. Because of the Intel based chipset and other hardware, windows works natively on the system. You do have to have some custom Mac drivers that bootcamp provides in a fancy lil installer, or you can build / find your own across the internet. Bootcamp does not emulate the windows envrionment or eat up any additional resources other than if you use the base installation there is a systray icon that allows you to set your boot partitions as active.


One more thing to take into consideration here is the boot manager of HFS filesystems is EFI and not the standard bootldr of our old DOS knowledge. If you indeed decide to dual, tri, or even quad boot your Intel MacBook Pro I recommend a program like rEFIt (just google it) that is a boot manager for both EFI and old school boot configurations.

Personally, having MAC OSX, Windows XP, Vista and Ubuntu make the Mac hardware just plain sexy, and all versions of Windows apparently run more smoothly than on similar "Microsoft Standard" equipment in my opinion.

PM me if you have any questions. Would be willing to help as time permits.

Thanks,
Meth
 
Yeah, I had a similar problem. I bought the laptop to replace a two year old Best Buy off the shelf HP desktop. I had bought the Vista Ultimate Upgrade for the desktop. When I had to reinstall it, I realized I had lost my OEM XP disc to reboot from, so I had to buy Vista Ultimate Full. This was a year ago. I get my laptop this year and I want to keep my Vista Ultimate Full for my bootcamp partition. I had promised my desktop to a lady at work who had no computer ever. Made me feel nice. Not nice enough to rebuy Ultimate. I kept my copy, and went out and spent another 200 on Windows Vista Home Premium Full and put that on. She won't need the 300 ultimate. I had more vistas than anyone would ever want.
 
kakashi said:
I have FFXI on my macbook also and it runs great. Boot Camp is superior at running windows than any virtual machine unless you wanna have both OS running. The partition though has to be at least 40 GB to hold FFXI and all expansions.
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Don't need 40 GB. FFXI takes up about 8.75GB on my notebook and that's with every expansion installed.


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Don't believe Add/Remove programs. It... exaggerates, so to speak.
 
LOL you just proved yourself wrong with that picture. Each expansion is 8.16 GB.

FFXI + 4 expansions is accually a little over 40 GB. I thin i made mine 50GB.
 
No... Each of those program files are reading the same folder... FFXI is only 8 gigs big
 
Methodtsi said:
Bootcamp is just a partition and "Windows driver disk" maker application for MAC OSX. It has been around since before OSX Tiger, but was released for beta testing on the Tiger disk.

It has since expired, and Leopard is required to use BootCamp "legally", however if you have .dmg laying around somewhere it will work.

As far as FFXI on a MAC, you are limited to really these two options:

1) Run Parallels or VMWare Fusion within the MAC OS, and enable Direct3D emulation. This is indeed a slow solution but will allow functional ffxi if you turn down the graphic configurations. Its not pretty, but if you really want to you can make it work.

2) Run Windows natively on the Mac. Because of the Intel based chipset and other hardware, windows works natively on the system. You do have to have some custom Mac drivers that bootcamp provides in a fancy lil installer, or you can build / find your own across the internet. Bootcamp does not emulate the windows envrionment or eat up any additional resources other than if you use the base installation there is a systray icon that allows you to set your boot partitions as active.


One more thing to take into consideration here is the boot manager of HFS filesystems is EFI and not the standard bootldr of our old DOS knowledge. If you indeed decide to dual, tri, or even quad boot your Intel MacBook Pro I recommend a program like rEFIt (just google it) that is a boot manager for both EFI and old school boot configurations.

Personally, having MAC OSX, Windows XP, Vista and Ubuntu make the Mac hardware just plain sexy, and all versions of Windows apparently run more smoothly than on similar "Microsoft Standard" equipment in my opinion.

PM me if you have any questions. Would be willing to help as time permits.

Thanks,
Meth
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Option two sounds like the best option to me. With everything said, it seems like it's all step by step and I have the tools at my disposal. All I need now is to go buy windows xp.

Thanks all. Meth, I'll probably PM you in about 2 weeks when I get windows.
 
Can you run Windower in Bootcamp? If so, how well does that run. Depending i may actually install FF on my laptop when i come back.
 
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