Playing Beth Games on a Mac

[chucksteel]

The only reason I even installed windows on my Mac was to play Beth games. I knew nothing about windows at the time being a mac guy and the person at the computer store at the time said if i have a good system to get vista because it is close to Mac OS.

 

I've been playing Beth games on a Bootcamp partition on my Mac ever since but have hated Vista with a passion!

 

I tried a demo version of Crossover which if you don't know it is the payed version of Wine which allows Mac users to run windows apps. (I'm not posting a link to it because I don't mean this to be a Advertisement but something to help Mac users that want to play more PC games)

 

So far I've only tested a few of my Steam games with it but the results have been so exciting I picked up the retail version because wine can be overly complicated to use if you try to run the Freeware version.

 

What I have tested

 

1. Fallout 1
2. Fallout 2
3. Fallout Tactics
4. Fallout 3
5. Fallout 3 GECK
6. Fallout New Vegas
7. Fallout New Vegas GECK
8. Nifscope

 

All of which Played as well if not better then they did on my Bootcamp Windows Vista 32 partition.

 

9. Wasteland 2

 

Had some issues but I'm not sure if it is Crossover or the fact that it is an early release version because I also had crashes with it while running it under windows vista.

 

I still have to test a bunch more of my PC games to see if they play with Crossover on my Mac but my hopes are high.

 

There is also a version of Blender and Blenders Nif tools for mac, which means you'll fully be able to mod and make mods for your Beth games.

 

Note: the only mod Manager that works with Crossover or Wine is Mod Organizer. This is not a bad thing it seems to work well, You just can't use NMM or FOMM which is a bit of a drag because I was used to using them and Mod Organizer is new with a little learning curve. (Again not a bad curve but it's just not what I've been using.

 

I hope this helps someone like me who was frustrated having to reboot in Bootcamp to play there games.

 

I will update when I test more of my games.

Edited February 15, 2014 by chucksteel

[Rennn]

Not to detract from this, but Vista is widely considered the worst OS of the last decade. :3

Even Windows 8 is at least good for tablets... Vista isn't good for anything.

[JimboUK]

Vista was terrible, it makes 8 look good, that's how bad it was. Windows 7 with Bootcamp would be a good option, it's the best of both worlds.