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Title: Hardware Question
Post by: frezal on June 27, 2010, 04:04:30 PM: I have a MacBook circa 2007 with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core2Duo and an Intel GMA 950. If I were to Bootcamp Windows XP, would it be able to run stock RA2? I know Virtualbox can't and I don't want to waste the harddrive space if Bootcamp can't.
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: Naryar on June 27, 2010, 04:13:28 PM: There's no reason you shouldn't. I have the same (but only at 2 Ghz)
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: Sage on June 27, 2010, 04:21:26 PM: I'm running a Macbook Pro circa 2007 with some sorta specs. Anyways, I went on the mac and downloaded (torrented) the ISO file for windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, burned it to a disc, and used it as the start up OS for Bootcamp. There's more details and stuff involved, but I never use the mac side anymore and put all available HDD space of the windows side.

WIndows XP will work just as well as if it were on a Windows computer.
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: Serge on June 27, 2010, 06:55:46 PM: Quote from: frezal on June 27, 2010, 04:04:30 PM
I have a MacBook circa 2007 with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core2Duo and an Intel GMA 950. If I were to Bootcamp Windows XP, would it be able to run stock RA2? I know Virtualbox can't and I don't want to waste the harddrive space if Bootcamp can't.

lol gma950. My MSI Wind has the same graphics card, it ran RA2 just fine.
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: frezal on June 27, 2010, 07:38:45 PM: (https://gametechmods.com/RA2wiki/images/c/c5/Ragetoon_thumb.png)

Bootcamp won't let me partition. It tells me to go into Disk Utility and set my harddrive to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled). That would be fine and all except for the fact that my harddrive already is. Booting from DVD and repairing/verifying the disk didn't seem to do the trick. Anyone know how to get around this and/or solve the issue?

In the meantime, I'm going to try goggling.
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: Serge on June 27, 2010, 07:54:13 PM: Hm, that's weird. Are you using GPT or MBR?
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: frezal on June 27, 2010, 08:02:47 PM: After some goggling, I think the problem may be that I need to defrag. OS X apparently only auto defrags things smaller than 20 MBs.
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: Serge on June 27, 2010, 08:14:41 PM: HFS+ shouldn't require defragging...
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: frezal on June 27, 2010, 09:25:06 PM: Quote from: Serge on June 27, 2010, 08:14:41 PM
HFS+ shouldn't require defragging...
I have no idea. I'm just going off of what other people have done to solve similar problems.
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: Naryar on June 28, 2010, 10:05:56 AM: Yeah GMA950 isn't the best but hopefully it can be extended to 220MB memory (what i did).

But it works with relatively med-graphics games fine.
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: frezal on June 28, 2010, 10:58:54 AM: I've got 2 GB of RAM (double what this thing came with), so it has plenty to leach from.
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: Naryar on June 28, 2010, 11:08:22 AM: It's a normal macbook right ... how did you managed to pull of that ?
Title: Re: Hardware Question
Post by: frezal on June 28, 2010, 12:14:58 PM: Quote from: Naryar on June 28, 2010, 11:08:22 AM
It's a normal macbook right ... how did you managed to pull of that ?
Take off the battery and the RAM compartment is right there.