SWTOR on Mac's window side

[Dudeyoudontknow]

Hi. I'm a WoW gamer looking to branch out in the MMORPG genre. Recently, I've wanted to play SWTOR. However, I have an imac, so this seems to be impossible. However, a few years ago when I was playing free realms, a game that only works on pc, i was able to play it on the windows side. Will this be the same? If someone could, could they make sure the requirements are made because I'm not good with that techy stuff. Thanks.

 

[Painaid]

Yes, you'd need to run bootcamp on your Mac. It's where you partition a portion of your harddrive for use on a Windows OS. You will need a Windows OS license though. Alternatively, you could just torrent a version of Windows instead from piratebay.

 

[TheTrueNub]

Yes, you'd need to run bootcamp on your Mac. It's where you partition a portion of your harddrive for use on a Windows OS. You will need a Windows OS license though. Alternatively, you could just torrent a version of Windows instead from piratebay.

I use Bootcamp on my macbook pro and it works like a champ (I bought a bona fide copy of Windows because I couldn't find a torrent that I trusted). You simply restart your computer and hold alt/option and it lets you choose whether or not you want to boot in windows or in mac. If you have any questions about it and you want to ask a first-hand user I'd be more than welcome to help.



Your other option is "Paralells," which actually runs Windows as a program on your mac side (that is, you don't have to restart your comp), but since you're basically running two computers at once on the same machine it takes up a lot more RAM, particularly if you use it to play big games (like SWTOR). Since I'm on a laptop I wasn't really comfortable with that, but if you're on a desktop it should be fine. You still have to buy and/or pirate windows OS, tho.



Something to consider before you invest in bootcamp--if your computer blows up the mac people won't be able to salvage your windows partition. Happened to me last year...got all my mac data recovered, but silly apple store dopes wouldn't touch the windows side. Luckily I only use windows for games so it wasn't all that big of a deal.