Has anyone tried how emulation Mac OS works with Civ 5?

[RRtexasranger]

I have Civ 5 on a PC, and I bought it for someone so we could play together online, but she has a Mac. So I've waited here for months for a patch that allows multiplayer online cause so far, the game on the mac has yet to have been touched.

So I was thinking, since the Mac is much weaker and the person using it has less tech experience, I was wondering, "how about I just emulate Mac OS X on my Mac?" and try to run it that way. MY specs are pretty good (i7 860, HD 5870, 8GB RAM) so I figure that I can hopefully fun Civ 5 on an emulated OS.

Has anyone tried this? Do you want me to be a Guinea pig? Or do you think this is just a waste of time?

 

[Dedrytus]

As far as I know it is illegal. You can run Mac OS only on Mac. I do not own the mac, but I think there is an option to run Windows on it - Boot Camp or sth.

 

[AlanH]

"how about I just emulate Mac OS X on my Mac?"

The Mac already runs Mac OS X

Did you mean, "how about I just emulate Mac OS X on my PC?". But what does that buy you? If you have two copies, both registered with Steam, you can download both of them as PC copies.

If you want to play multiplayer between the Mac and the PC, you can, as Dedrytus says, install a Windows partition on the Mac using Bootcamp. You will need a retail or OEM copy of Windows that you can install into it, but then the Mac can effectively boot up as a PC and run the PC download of you friend's Civ5.

 

[RRtexasranger]

It is not illegal, if you own an Mac OS X disk, and run some emulating software, you can Mac OS X "on top of" Windows, instead of putting it into dual boot.

And I'm aware of things to do on the Mac side, however, the person who has the Mac is very far away from me and she doesn't really know computers enough to go through the process of boot camp, let alone have the HDD space on her laptop.

And could this be moved back to general discussion? I intentionally put it there. I am interested to see if anyone else had any experience emulating Mac OS X on Windows. I doubt that anyone with a Mac would emulate something they are already running.

 

[AlanH]

It is not illegal, if you own an Mac OS X disk, and run some emulating software, you can Mac OS X "on top of" Windows, instead of putting it into dual boot.

OK, so you did mean "how about I just emulate Mac OS X on my PC?".

I now understand what you are considering - running two copies of the Mac version.

Well, it may not get you thrown in jail, but it is against the Apple EULA to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware. However, depending on which country you do it in, there may be local laws that override that agreement.

I don't know of a ready-made emulator. I believe the Hackintosh community provides tools to run Mac OS X on a non-Apple PC. Maybe that sort of technology could be used to persuade it to run in a VMWare virtual machine.

 

[AlanH]

Moderator Action: Thread moved back to General Discussions at user request.

 

[RRtexasranger]

VMWare supports emulation of Mac OS X in Windows, I have instructions of how to do it and everything, I was just interested in seeing if anyone has already tried something similar to this. If they have, I can hear what they have to say so that way I don't have to spend hours of my life getting it all to work good enough to fit my needs (make sure drivers are working, reinstallaing Civ 5 and Steam, ect.)

 

[AlanH]

Good luck!

 

[RRtexasranger]

Ran into a little problem today setting it up. However, the fix is easy and was a mistake on my part, so I'll give it another go tomorrow.

UPDATE: Emulation worked well. I installed the game, but the game fails to launch succesfully. I will re-attempt with a different emulating software that hopefully has better video driver support.