Intel Mini+Boot Camp+XP+games

Breathes here an intrepid soul who has managed to play a game hungrier than solitaire on a Mini Solo or Duo with Boot Camp and XP?
I've read the running list (In Boot Camp Discussions) of games playable with Boot Camp and XP, but the posters seem to be using iMacs and MacBook Pros. Has anyone been really lucky with the Mini?
iMac 1.8 with SuperDrive Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I think if your looking for a games machine, then the mini is not the computer for you. The GPU is just to limited for that. Can it play games under XP, sure, will the performance be ok, sure. Will the iMac or MBP be better definitely.
If you looking for a pure game machine then your better suited to finding a cheaper solution, but if your just looking to play the occasional game, the mac mini may fit the bill.
I don't really play games so I cannot comment on the mini's game performance in OSX or XP.
Mike

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Mac mini, boot camp, windows vista/windows 7, DVI to HDMI, no display

I have a mac mini from 2008 on which I have put windows Vista via boot camp. I have connected the mini using DVI to HDMI, to my Sony Bravia 1080p HDTV.
When I log into the mac 10.6.2, all seems fine and I can see the display alright.
When I log into Windows Vista, I cannot. The display stays black even though I hear the Windows startup sound.
I tried force-upgrading to Windows 7 and the same thing. In fact at some point I can see some of the stuff (like when starting in safe mode), but as soon as it boots up, the display goes blank.
Normally I can see the display up to the point where it says loading Microsoft windows (with the small progress bar) and then, nothing.
Any clues what may be happening?

No response

Mac Mini / Boot Camp / XP Pro / Black Screen with DVI display

Boot camp partitioned the hard drive on my new Mac Mini and restarted after I clicked Start Installation, but came up to a black screen. No blue installation screen, nothing.
I downed it with the power button and unhooked the display from the DVI port. I went and got a VGA cable instead and hooked it up via the DVI/VGA adapter and started up again with the Option key. Chose the Windows XP Pro SP2 installation CD and it went through the Windows installation OK.
The trouble is this Norwood Micro HD17A (17" widescreen) looks TERRIBLE on VGA whether I run Windows or Mac OS, because there's no selection for 1280 x 768 resolution. It looks great on DVI both on Mac OS and in Windows once I get XP Pro to load.
After logging in to Windows I can unhook the VGA cable and adapter and reconnect the monitor using the DVI. The moment I do this Windows looks great, with native resolution supported and everything's fine. But this is a terribly cumbersome login procedure!
It seems that XP Pro has no trouble communicating with this display, provided I can get Windows to load. I contacted Apple Support but they say it's a problem with Windows, so I submitted a support request to Microsoft. I'm waiting for them to tell me it's a problem with Boot Camp or the firmware.
I've seen descriptions of very similar problems on other forums (123macmin.com) and here, but no solutions anywhere. Anybody know what's happening here?

Update: Microsoft says it's probably a problem with the hardware:
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Mark, I would like to explain that the issue should be related to the display card driver. We still need to contact the Apple support to verify if their machine has been tested under the XP environment when DVI or AVG is in use. This issue is related to Hardware and cannot be resolved from a Windows XP standpoint. Our Windows XP Support Team deals mainly with issues related to the Windows XP Operating System. Thus, we are not the best resource for this issue.
Please understand the problem may be beyond our support boundary and, therefore, our help to troubleshoot this issue is limited. Let’s contact the manufacturer who will be more familiar with their products. To contact them, please access the following link:
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
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Meanwhile I sent Redmond the System Information in an NFO file. More as this develops!

Macbook pro retina 15 with win 7 in boot camp in games becomes hot and low graphics

hi i have macbook pro retina 15 and i installed win 7 with boot camp but when i want play games the first 2 minutes is good but the next minutes the macbook becomes very hot and graphics going very low i tried osx 10.8 but still not working. i tried command option shift power when mac is plugged in and off but still not working
does any one know solution of this problem??
<Edited by Host>

Hi All,
I tried this and it improved my FPS in games yesterday, still not getting FPS I would desire, but its become playable.
Repasted here from another thread:
My retina MacBook Pro has had terrible graphics performance problems for a couple of weeks. I searched all over various forums and tried everything: resetting SCM, manually selecting discrete/integrated graphics card, deleting graphics kexts, etc. Nothing helped until I found this: https://discussions.apple.com/message/19880198#19880198
Now my rMBP has silky smooth graphics again!
The directions in that post are a little hard to understand so I cleaned them up here:
Step 1: Delete system windowserver preferences
In the Finder, from the menu bar, select "Go -> Go to Folder..."
Enter: /Library/Preferences/
Delete the file called com.apple.windowserver.plist
Step 2: Delete user windowserver preferences
In the Finder, from the menu bar, select "Go -> Go to Folder..."
Enter: ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/
Delete all files that start with com.apple.windowserver (On my rMBP, there was one file called com.apple.windowserver.12AFB147-95D6-5C70-8F62-C1E4F2BE81BE)
Step 3: Reset the PRAM (These instructions are from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379)
Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
Hopefully this helps others with bad graphics performance on retina MacBook Pros.
For anyone that wants to check out the problematic plists from my rMBP, here are the files:
http://jherrman.com/slow-rmbp-2012/com.apple.windowserver.plist
http://jherrman.com/slow-rmbp-2012/com.apple.windowserver.12AFB147-95D6-5C70-8F6 2-C1E4F2BE81BE.plist
Jeremy Herrman

Mac mini Boot Camp & Windows 7

My Mac mini is connected to my Mac. I'm using Boot Camp Assistant to help me put the software on my Mac but does that mean it will transfer the same partitioning on my mini or will it be untouched by Boot Camp?
I want my Mac mini to be partitioned wth part WIN and Mac.
thanx

bootcamp is about altering the physical harddrive on the computer and that onely
other computers or ipods or ipads and iphones will be uneffected by the changed bootcamp does to the harddrive you wish to install windows on

New gen Mac Mini: Boot Camp install problems

I've got a new version Mac Mini that was just released, 4GB RAM, 250GB hard drive.
Fired up Boot Camp, and pressed the button offering a 32GB Windows partition.
It rebooted into my OEM XP Pro SP2 CD, and installed OK (as in it loaded the files).
The Mini then reboots, and dies with these 3 lines:
*Press any key to boot from CD.....*
*Disk error*
*Press any key to restart*
BTW, pressing any key does NOT restart anything. I have to use the power button to down it.
I popped out the XP boot CD by holding down the mouse, and then downed the system again.
Then I held down the Option key, which offers me the boot menu, and I selected Windows.
It then dies again with the bottom 2 lines.
I've tried removing the partition, and asking Boot Camp to make a 30GB partition.
Same end results (it takes awhile obviously to get to the failure).
Also tried a brand-new XP Pro SP3 install CD. Same results.
Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi Austra,
I figured it out last night, and you are correct, the default Windows install method will NOT work.
When XP first boots, it actually offers 5 choices, and the default is "Use this filesystem as-is without formatting". It will happily install, but that default choice does not write the MBR (master boot record) onto the disk. When you reboot again, the MBR isn't there, and the firmware halts. One little 512-byte sector keeps it from working.
Really, Apple should write a MBR onto that partition during the Boot Camp process, it wouldn't be all that much extra trouble.
- Tyler

Need help, Win7 64-bit, USB 8G, Mac Mini, boot camp install.

When i run win installation it stops. I try to formate "bootcamp" drive and press next, and then the error message appears. Please help.

This is where it all stops.
"Install Windows"
Where do you want to install Windows?
-Disk 0 "boot camp"
^ Then I mark this partition, and press "Format" button.
Then the "boot camp" partition changes name to "disk 0 partition 4"
This is my list:
Disk 0 partition 1    200mb
Disk 0 partition 2    874gb
Disk 0 partition 3    619mb
Disk 0 partition 4    56gb
Then i mark "disk 0 partition 4" and press "next" and this message appears.
"setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the setup log files for more info.

How do install windows hard drive (from dead pc) into boot camp partition

My Windows 7 desktop died recently, so I took the opportunity to buy a Mac Mini (latest version as of Feb 2012) as a replacement. I want to transfer the Windows 7 installation (from the dead PC) including all applications, accounts, settings, user files, etc to the Boot Camp Partition. Can someone please provide the steps on how to perform the Win 7 migration to the Mac Mini.

Just to clarify:
I want to install the Windows 7 installation from dead the PC into the Mac Mini's Boot Camp partition.
I installed the PC's hard drive into an enclosure and connected it to the Mac Mini via the USB port.
What I want to do is the following:
1) Do a Windows 7 "fresh" install in the Mac Mini Boot Camp partition.
2) Migrate all the applications installed on the Windows 7 PC and their associated data.
3) Migrate all user accounts and data.
Is there a tool that can transfer all applications and user accounts from the Windows 7 Hard Drive to the Boot Camp partition on the Mini?
Based on the documentation the Window Migration tool is Lion OS utility and does not perform a complete migration of all applications installed on the Windows machine.
thank you.

Games on the Intel Mini?

Does anyone know of any great games (non-casual) that run decently on the Mac Mini? I have the Intel 1.83 Mac Mini and World of Warcraft runs great on lower settings, so I was wondering what other games run well on the Mini.

Some good threads on this topic at 123macmini.com.
People are reporting success with Nexuiz, DooM3, Prey, HL2, etc., much of it supported by screenshots. Of course the resolutions are low, and all eye-candy is turned off for the high end games, but they are evidently running satisfactorily. Also, some gamers are playing the high-end games within a window to enhance frame rate. Hardly ideal, but it appears to work. I can't verify the veracity of many of these claims, but I keep up with the various forums since I am interested in getting a mini myself.
EDIT: Some of those games are played on XP via boot camp, of course.
Message was edited by: that baby-stealing dingo

Boot Camp on mini with SL: can't install Vista or Win7

Have run Boot Camp Assistant on Mac mini with Snow Leopard (10.6.1) and successfully created a partition, but process hangs after "start installation" with an apparent re-boot, followed by a gray screen. The install disc appears to be recognized - have tried with Vista (upgrade) and Win 7 (full version) install media, using both the Mac mini internal DVD drive as well as an external USB DVD drive.
Questions: 1) any chance of success using an ISO image on a bootable USB stick?; 2) I have a successful Boot Camp image install on another, more recent mini. Would a clone of it copied to my problematic mini solve the problem?
My hardware: Mac mini 1.66 Intel Core Duo, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB HD, Intel GMA950 graphics chip.

Ok....It appears that my cpu heatsink was not bolted down correctly. After fixing that the temp idels around 45 in BIOS... *sigh*

I want to use Boot Camp to play PC games on my PowerMac G5. Any Advice?

I'm about to install Leopard & use Boot Camp for the first time to make a PC partition which will be used almost exclusively for PC gaming (mostly WWII shooters). I need some advice about how to go about maximizing my gaming experience. First, how big should the partition be? 25GB? 50GB? My home drive has a capacity of about 230 GB. What PC OS should I use? Vista or XP? What kind of video card should I have?
I've got a Power Mac G5 with 2 x 3 Ghz quad core Intel Xeon, 4GB 667 Mhz DDR2 F8-DIMM and a ATY Radeon X1900 XT 512MB video card.
Thanks

First, how big should the partition be? 25GB? 50GB? My home drive has a capacity of about 230 GB.
You mentioned that you will use your computer exclusively for Windows gaming and therefor I would recommend a partition at least to be at 70GB and 100GB if you can afford the space. Depending on the amount of games and disk space they use, you will need make your call.
What PC OS should I use? Vista or XP?
I am assuming that you would to use ALL of your 4GB Ram. If you use XP then you will only be able to use 2GB - 3GB RAM. You will need Windows Vista 64BIT Home Premium installed on your Mac Pro to take advantage of all 4GB.
What kind of video card should I have?
You already have the ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB Video Card installed and that should work well.
I've got a Power Mac G5 with 2 x 3 Ghz quad core Intel Xeon
Are you sure you have a Power Mac G5 as you wrote in your post? I think you meant *Mac Pro*. At least I hope that is what you meant since if you meant the former then Windows will not run on your G5.
Axel F.

HT1461 Can one use boot camp to play computer games normally only found for PCs?

I have some older computer games, specifically Warhammer 40k rts games, that I woud still like to play and was curious if boot camp would allow me to play those on my mac? Also, if it is possible am I putting my computer at risk in any way? I'd like to play them but not so badly that I would be damaging my mac pro or shortening its lifespan. There dont appear to be any emulators out there currently so I'm checking here to see if anyone knows anything.

Yes. There are several ways to run Windows on the Mac:
Windows on Intel Macs
There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.
   1. Install the Apple Boot Camp software. Purchase Windows
         XP w/Service Pak2, Vista, or Windows 7. For Boot Camp
         4.0 and above you can only use Windows 7 or later. Follow
         instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on
         installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and
         installing Windows. Boot Camp enables you to boot the
         computer into OS X or Windows.
     2. Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business,
         Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7. Parallels is software
         virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently
         with OS X.
     3. VM Fusion and Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate,
         or Windows 7. VM Fusion is software virtualization that
         enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
     4. CrossOver which enables running many Windows
         applications without having to install Windows. The
         Windows applications can run concurrently with OS X.
     5. VirtualBox is an Open Source freeware virtual machine such
         as VM Fusion and Parallels that was developed by Solaris.
         It is not as fully developed for the Mac as Parallels and VM
         Fusion.
Note that VirtualBox, Parallels, and VM Fusion can also run other operating systems such as Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris, etc. There are performance differences between dual-boot systems and virtualization. The latter tend to be a little slower (not much) and do not provide the video performance of the dual-boot system. See MacTech Labs- Virtualization Benchmarks, January 2013 | MacTech for comparisons of Boot Camp, Parallels, and VM Fusion. Benchmarks of all of the above except Crossover can be found in Benchmarking Parallels, Fusion, and VirtualBox Against Boot Camp - The Mac Observer. Boot Camp is only available with Leopard or later. Except for Crossover and a couple of similar alternatives like DarWine you must have a valid installer disc for Windows.
You must also have an internal optical drive for installing Windows. Windows cannot be installed from an external optical drive.

HT201541 Mac mini Late 2014 Boot Camp Windows 7 sound issue

Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone can help me with my Mac mini (Late 2014) and Boot Camp (Windows 7). The problem I'm having is that there's no audio when I boot into Windows 7, though everything works fine under OS X. After installing Boot Camp and Windows, the audio worked perfectly up until yesterday, and now there's nothing. I've tried updating as well as uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, but this hasn't helped at all.
When I open Volume Mixer and Playback Devices, the sliders show that audio is playing, but I hear nothing - either from the built-in speaker or when I headphones.
The Device Status indicates that "This device is working properly" and that the drivers are up to date. Tthe following drivers are installed:
dmk.sys
HdAudio.sys
ksthunk.sys
portcls.sys
SysFxUI.dll
WMALFXGFXDSP.dll
Has anyone else encountered this issue, or does anyone have any tips on how I might fix this?

Is the volume Muted? The Mac has an Audio database of devices and volumes in NVRAM, so an SMC Reset or PRAM reset might help. Please see this link for appropriate keys Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs - Apple Support.

Games crashing running boot camp

got a new 27" iMac 10.6.8 2.93 Ghz i7 intel quad core, installed boot camp running Windows Xp Pro SP 3, and boot camp 3.2 (updated via mac update)
When trying to play Battlefield Bad Company 2 game freezes.. PLEASE HELP!

Sorry, this is probably the wrong part of the forum to ask this question (although it's possible somebody here might have an answer for you). I suggest you repost your question in the WIndows Software > Boot Camp section of the forums.
Bob

Boot camp gets black screen when open games

Hi apple support.
I recently installed windows 7 ultimate 64 bit on my MBP (using boot camp) and i also downloaded all the drivers from the boot camp assistant.
After the installation i run in to these problems. Everytime im trying to play games (even the standard chess games in windows 7 ultimate), the screen goes totally black, but there is still light on the keyboard and the computer is still running. Then i need to shut down the computer and start it again.
MBP specs:
2,8 GHz intel core i7
4GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 288 MB (nvidia geforce gt330m)
Software: OS X 10.8.2
I really tried everything, like downloading drivers for my graphic-card, updated newest updates from Windows Update.
HELP

I too have had this issue occur on one of my MBPs (early 2009 15" 2.4 A1286).
I would launch steam in windows bootcamp environment and temps would go to mid/upper 60s. Playing simple game such as AOE III (circa 2006 game) and after 10 minutes of gaming the screen goes black. Game sound is still on with the screen black. Requires hard reboot. I installed Lubbos Fan Control to occaisionally monitor temps while in game (using windowed game mode or via alt+tab to see the temps). Temps would be at mid to upper 80s. So I reasoned that it was a thermal efficiency issue.
The laptop is about 4 years old so I bought replacement fans incase they were struggling to spin/cool efficiently. I also did an SMC reset since some of the thermal charateristics of the Mac are controlled by SMC. Ordered new thermal grease too.
Since installing the new fans, SMC reset, applying the thermal grease to the GPUs and to the CPU... temps in OS X at idle are low to mid 40s (30s at startup in OS X). Temps in windows bootcamp environment are at about 62c at startup but settle to mid/high 40s at after a few minutes at idle (startup in windows has alot of services restarting, etc which accounts for the 60s temps at startup). SImple IE browsing is at low 50s (currently at 52c as I type this).
Now when I launch Steam, the temps while in windows climb to 60s. When in AOE III, temps can still climb to mid/uper 70s but never over 80c. I haven't had the black screen appear again, but I'll continue to test and monitor to be certain it doesn't return. One thing is certain, the temps are alot better now.
Macs running windows via bootcamp just simply run hotter than in OS X when doing similar things (Just launching steam in wondows, without running a game causes a 10c increase), but you can do a few things as noted above to try to keep the temps down.
Hope that helps.
Ben

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