Dudes, here’s your Windows 7 beta on the Mac guide. Plus, Plain Sight.
I can’t actually vouch for this tutorial (courtesy of TUAW). Maybe RebelScum or King-Pin can pop in and evaluate it, since as we discussed while cable-sorting at our recent group tidy-up of the increasingly Gigeresque floor of the podcast studio, I don’t intend to get into Windows 7 until I am forced. Hell, I would still be installing Windows 98, if XP weren’t required for the whole concept of me trying out PC games. A concept sadly, heretofore unexecuted, mostly due to lack of drive space on my Windows partition — there’s only 1GB left on it, since XP unexpectedly takes up 4GB (I seem to remember the old VIrtual PC installation I used to use on PowerPC systems as generally taking less than half that space, but maybe VPC did some kind of compression on its virtual drive), and it appears to be an annoyingly long-and-involved process to install Boot Camp on an external drive. I could probably expand it to about 10GB even on my meagre 80GB Mac mini internal drive, but I would have to wipe the Windows partition in order to resize, and that means reinstalling XP blah blah blah (you guys know all the ‘blah’ I’m talking about). So, I’ve put it off. When I finally do it, I would love it if I didn’t have to repeat that process yet again.
So, Reb and KP, if you two have or get any experience installing games in Boot Camp, could you let me know in the comments here, what is the minimum realistic partition size I would need in XP to install a single game at a time? And this would apply to games released up until around 2005 — I wouldn’t expect the Mac mini’s Intel GMA 950 to be up to running anything newer, if that. But I am really thinking of taking advantage of some of these interesting new indie public beta games that are going around, which seem more based on fun, fresh interactivity concepts and therefore don’t need to push the envelope so much on the use of the GPU. And I was hoping to use as an example here, Plain Sight. Only, “they” are saying that the GMA 950 wouldn’t be up to Plain Sight (the game requires DirectX 9c). I’d like to give PC gaming a shot, anyway. How much space do I need?
Regards,
PLQ.
P.S. Here’s where you can download Plain Sight…
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umm plain sight is unlikely going to run – since the forums specifically mention that is has problems on intel integrated graphics chips – and even though the graphics looks ‘basic’ as in cell shaded it still probably wouldn’t be playable on a GMA 950
try Crayon Physics Deluxe for a cool indie game – and this http://blended.planethalflife.gamespy.com/gravitybone/
“umm plain sight is unlikely going to run”
I actually just said that, above. But thanks for the Crayon Physics link!
the link above is for a quake 2 engine based indie game – gravity bone
crayon physics is at http://www.crayonphysics.com/
Ah. *Two* indie games. Awesome.
My Windows partition is 120GB (on a 750GB drive), but I might increase it (I keep all my space-hogging media files on external drives, so I’m unlikely to ever run out of space on my install drive.) I just figured it was a nice round number, and considering I spend almost 0 time in Windows (although that’s likely to change when I *FINALLY* buy Left 4 Dead), I’m not about to burn through that space with bunches and bunches of apps…besides games, the only things I have installed on my XP partition are GotSent and ATI’s weird little vid card controller. I don;t even have Firefox.
As far as gaming is concerned, I have Unreal Tournament (The original and best), Crysis, BioShock, and NHL 2008. UT only takes up about 250MB of space I think…all the rest are >2GB. (Crysis is around 6, I think…can’t be sure as I’m not at my home machine right now…Squid can likely confirm.)
I’ll check out the Win7 tutorial and see if it’s worth trying.
By the way, +25 for the use of the term “Gigeresque”
Oh, you have too much space, but you’ve managed to provide useful info anyway. Accounting for virtual memory space, it sounds like I should probably set a partition size of 15GB. I guess King-Pin with his 4.5TB RAID is probably not going to be much help! (Hey Dave, have you upgraded the firmware yet on those puppies?)
Well, I think the main problem with his arguments is that he’s bashing the OS for being itself lol. There’s no basis to his criticism that anyone with some remote knowledge of Windows wouldn’t have known already 😛 I mean no expose hot corner functionality? Honestly? Did you just lighting expect MS to implement Expose because you miss it? If you want it so bad you can just install switcher(google it :P). It’s much more customizable than Expose, and subsequently much more useful. Granted, on some hardware the animation may not be as smooth, but being able to close programs with a right click is amazing.I don’t see how you can compare the lamps Superbar to the Dock. The dock doesn’t really do anything useful except dazzle you with its prettyness. The Windows 7 Taskbar on the the other hand is pretty(not as pretty as the dock, admittedly), and functional. I can’t live without aero peek or desktop preview whenever I boot into OSX, Vista, XP, or Ubuntu.
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