DCS on Mac Book Pro

possible to run dcs via windows on an external hdd on a macbook pro or are we wasting time?

are you dual booting?

You either run it via BootCamp in a dual-boot config or wipe macOS and install Windows only. Both ways need Apple's driver package.

Sorry if this thread offended you or made your day any worse, but you can always unsubscribe if this bothers you. Of course, DCS is not designed to work on a Mac. But is it possible? My question here is for those who managed to run DCS on a MacBook Pro.

No offense here, and of course I unsubscribed from this thread,

but it keeps popping up in the "new posts" which I look every day.

DCS runs on a windows PC, period.

So let's pop it up one more time :)

It runs on Windows7-10 64bit, that's the only limitation here.

Pick your hardware matching your overall needs.

Of course, DCS is not designed to work on a Mac. But is it possible? My question here is for those who managed to run DCS on a MacBook Pro.

Yes, it is possible ... you have to install Windows on the Mac using Apple's Bootcamp utility, and your Mac has to have at least 8 GB of RAM and a Radeon Pro graphics card.

I made it run on my iMac for a few months, while I saved $$$ to assemble a proper gaming PC:

:)

are you dual booting?

He is booting from a usb drive, is this an issue?

Yes, it is possible ... you have to install Windows on the Mac using Apple's Bootcamp utility, and your Mac has to have at least 8 GB of RAM and a Radeon Pro graphics card.

 

 

I made it run on my iMac for a few months, while I saved $$$ to assemble a proper gaming PC:

 

 

:)

That looks pretty good and, again, some people don’t have gaming as a priority. Although I am convincing him to get a proper pc for gaming. This is just to try, if possible. I suspect the issue may be either the usb drive windows instead of bootcamp or the fact his macbook pro uses an intel gpu, unlike the more power desktop ones. I checked and it says dx12 compatible, we even managed to run other games like ghost recon wildlands.

The intel gpu is a no go ... you need a macbook with an amd discrete gpu ... and use bootcamp.

Correct, the Intel iGPU is only good for making that device a DCS-Server.

FWIW: My 2012 MBPr 15" has a Nvidia 650 GT-M with 1GB "only" and that was enough to fly 1080p low-medium with 30-45 fps in the Ka-50, back in 2013.

With a better GPU and a faster CPU, which they both have nowadays, you should be able to fly 1080p or even higher.

The only bad thing will be the heat, but hey, aren't those devices made to render for hours and hours, or compute some brutal scientific stuff, yeah, that's what they were made for 1st place.

Knock on wood, mine still runs 24/7/365 since Jan 2013.

That was my suspicion about the intel gpu, thanks for confirming it. Hopefully he gets a decent pc and we get another member to this amazing sim. Thank you all for the help and, again, sorry if this thread annoyed some people. I don’t own a mac, but can’t understand why Apple doesn’t seem to invest in gamers as well. They certainly look like well built machines, and people who work with them love it.