Do You Game on Your Hackintosh?

[Schniposa]

Dark age of camelot on Uthgard under Winxp with Parallels7.

 

[hacman]

now playing

 

[maxi322]

I use my hackintosh for gaming on windows only.
OSX isn't that great for gaming so i have a second SSD installed for windows 8.

 

[ochu]

Yes. Perfect for replaying good old titles as Deus Ex, Red Alert 2 or Generals Zero Hour using Wineskin.

 

[Bansaku]

In OS X, only Blizzard games. Everything else is through Windows. I have tried Cider games and although they look nice, the performance gap is unbearable.

 

[Imho]

Used to play WoW and Starcraft 2 nightly on my Hackintosh but not lately.

 

[inactive-user]

I use my hackintosh to create music in first place. But i also like to play games so here a little screenshot for those who are interested.
All Games are on one External 1TB HD. Games are working great with thanks to Wine (wineskin)

cheers



System: Hackintosh
OS: Mountain Lion 10.8.4
Boot loader: Chimera v2.1.1
CPU: Intel i7 960 (3.30GHz) Quad-Core
MB: Gigabyte x58a-ud3r r2 (Bios FF)
Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTS 450 OC (1GB) DDR5
Official Apple GPU Driver Version: 8.12.47 310.40.00.05f01
nVidia CUDA Driver Version: 5.0.61
Ram: Corsair 6GB DDR3 (1600mhz)
HD: Intel SSD 520 Series 240GB
Monitor: Sony Bravia 1920 x 1080 - (42 Zoll)

 

[Chaos Deadlock]

I have a Mac Pro 2006 model and also two Hackintoshes. Trying to install Winoze 7 on a 2006 Mac Pro is an utter pain in the back side so I have installed it on both my Hacks so they can dual boot into Windoze for playing games. The truth is though that I really do not like any non Unix-like operating system and just can't be bothered with Windoze. Due to more games being available for Windoze did have an adverse effect on the amount of time I played games until I discovered WineSkin. If you don't have it already get it. It's the best implementation of wine that I have found for OSX and it is so user friendly. I use it to play Assasins Creed, Guild Wars, Dawn of War ( all of them ), Tomb Raider and many others all on OSX. Best of all you can exit them instantly using Apple & Q. This is handy when I'm supposed to be working and my wife comes in to check on me. I work from a studio in my house as a CGI Artist and gaming is better than spacing out ( although I do some of that too ).

 

[ATB]

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Since we all have such powerful CPUs/Graphics, I figured I'd ask the question- do you game on your Hackintosh? Why or why not?

When mines built mid September mainly being used as a DAW Ill most likely be doing some gaming, if 80's arcade style games are available like the one above for sure (even if they dont demand that much from a graphics card). Also a third person shooter would be sweet (like a 21st century Duke Nukem).

 

[Koalaman]

Something feels weird about gaming in OS X though. Like it's not what it was designed for..