Oldmopars Posted June 18 Posted June 18 I know it has been asked before about running DCS on a Mac. However, everything I find is for Macs from the 2012 era. It has 38 cores, 64GB RAM, 1TB drive. Below are the Cinebench scores, I ran them on my system and they came out very close to these numbers. I know running it in a VM will effect it. But it seems like I may have a bit of headroom. I know it would be better to just build a PC, but I paid $4K for this less than 2 years ago. I got it for traveling with my job, but my company now has me working from home. I no longer need the laptop. As a side note, the screen got damaged and no longer works. So I use a monitor with it all the time.
Rudel_chw Posted June 18 Posted June 18 (edited) 46 minutes ago, Oldmopars said: I know it has been asked before about running DCS on a Mac. However, everything I find is for Macs from the 2012 era. That's because older Macs used Intel processors, which allowed them to boot standard Windows in a dual boot configuration offering performance equal to that of a PC with the same processor. The M-series Macs employ apple processors and are not able to boot a standard Windows. You can employ a virtualization software like Parallels Desktop, but it can only run with a special version of Windows for ARM processors ... I really don't know if DCS can run on ARM Windows, but my guess would be that it can't. Edit: Probably it would be best to repair your mac and then sell it (or sell it as it is) and then use the money to buy a second hand PC with specs compatible with DCS Edited June 18 by Rudel_chw 1 For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Oldmopars Posted June 18 Author Posted June 18 9 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said: That's because older Macs used Intel processors, which allowed them to boot standard Windows in a dual boot configuration offering performance equal to that of a PC with the same processor. The M-series Macs employ apple processors and are not able to boot a standard Windows. You can employ a virtualization software like Parallels Desktop, but it can only run with a special version of Windows for ARM processors ... I really don't know if DCS can run on ARM Windows, but my guess would be that it can't. Edit: Probably it would be best to repair your mac and then sell it (or sell it as it is) and then use the money to buy a second hand PC with specs compatible with DCS Thanks, I kind of figured that would be the answer. I don't think I will sell it, I use it for Fusion 360 and some other things. I have a Lenovo P15s Gen 2 for work, but it can't run Fusion, the GPU sucks. I tried to run DCS on another Lenovo P15s Gen 1, but even with the Core i7-10700, it just does not have enough GPU either. That's OK, I will just build something, I am putting it in a dedicated Sim Cockpit and its only use will be for the sim. I have decided to make my pit somewhat generic so I can run DCS, Xplane, Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, or any other flight sim style game. 1
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