It's possible, and it's necessary to achieve maximum performance from your machine.

I know on my iMac's with the Radeon card that was a bit difficult - had to find a Catalyst version that would install, because it's a mobile chipset and AMD was being stupid about it - but YMMV. Just make sure you update all your drivers after installing Windows - don't just roll with the default Microsoft drivers for your video card, etc. It's easy to find negative reports on the internet for just about anything, and it's always going to be disproportionately skewed towards the negative, because most people get online to post gripes, not to post 'this worked great for me.' I've installed Far Cry 3 multiple times now, across 3 different machines (21.5' 2011 iMac, then a 27' 2011 iMac, and now a custom built PC) in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, and have not ever had any issue with it running and working. For now, delete the virtual installation and go with Boot Camp.Īs far as getting the game to run in general, I'm not sure there. You'll have to do some googling to get the steps on how to set that up, but it's possible. If you want to get adventurous then you can setup boot camp for gaming, but also configure VirtualBox to access the boot camp partition/installation if you need to do Office or something else non-intensive in Windows.

Just trust the community on this one and go with boot camp. Try disabling gamepad, or, if for some reason, you. A place where heavily armed warlords traffic in slaves. Sometimes the controls in game do not work because of the simultaneous connection of multiple input devices. I had a 2011 iMac and ran Far Cry 3 with medium-high settings very well in boot camp. Far Cry 3 is an open world first-person shooter set on an island unlike any other. As others have already stated, Boot Camp runs Windows directly on the hardware, while virtualization means the host OS and the virtual software are both consuming resources along with the guest OS, AND the drivers for Windows are for virtual devices and not for the hardware directly.

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