Somebody help me out here!!!!!!! I cant figure out how to play games on mac

Question

evertime i put a pc game in it asks me to look for a file to open it and its onlys the system profiler and it dont work how the **** do you play games on the mac book pRO!!somebody help me out it!!!!

Answer 1

The issue is that you are attempting to run software written for one operating system (Microsoft Windows) on another (Mac OS X). That doesn't work... However, that doesn't mean you're out of luck:
1. Many popular PC games also happen to be available native for the Mac. Check if the particular games you want to play have a native Mac version. If they do, using that is best since it's easier to install and use and will perform best.
2. Failing that, you can actually run Windows on the Mac in order to run the game. There are two supported methods to do this: dual-booting (selecting which environment to use when you start the computer), or virtualization (running Windows as an OS X application).
For games, particularly ones heavily reliant on 3D graphics, dual-boot is currently the best option. This is accomplished using an application called "Boot Camp" (search the Apple site) to setup disk space for the two operating systems and installing a menu that appears when you boot where you can select which operating system to run. Any Windows game will run in this way (assuming you otherwise meet the hardware requirements of the game).
The alternative is virtualization, and there are two packages for that: Parallels and VMWare Fusion (in beta testing). Both will eventually support hardware accelerated 3D, but its not really functional in either yet. However, these applications run Windows as an application under Mac OS X, meaning that you can be running the Windows and Mac OS X applications at the same time (as opposed to Boot Camp, where you have to select at boot time which to run).
Note that all of the approaches require you to have a copy of Windows to install (preferably a legally licensed one). Most people don't have a copy to use since they receive a hardware-locked OEM version with their computer that isn't transferable.
The advice above is applicable to Linux as well.