Until 2 years ago, I used to be a PC person. I had a giant tower desktop computer with fans with flashing lights. Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Left 4 Dead, the #1 co-op game of 2008. This co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns. So that I could start traveling and work from anywhere. The problem is, since then I've missed PC gaming. All that startup stuff gets so incredibly boring after awhile, and we need to destress. Airy youtube downloader for mac youtube. Why even leave your computer screen to destress when you can do it ON YOUR COMPUTER? FREEDOM OF REALITY! So let's browse the games in Apple's App Store, well, they're not so great. It's kind of the iOS type stuff but then for OSX. Pretty very very shit. But that's stupid, because the MacBook Pro 15' has two graphic cards, and they're actually pretty powerful. And the MacBook Pro 13' and MacBook Air have on-board graphic cards, but they're fine to play PC games from a few years ago (like Skyrim). So it's a bit of a shame, we can't play games on it. And well, destress. How about GTA V? It's come out for PC a few months ago, so I wanted to see if I could get it working on my MacBook Pro. I was pretty sure I couldn't, but I still wanted to try. I mean I've been wanting to play this for years, but never had a device for it. I mean, YOU NEED TO PLAY THIS, RIGHT? I know you can run Windows on Mac with Parallels. But it's a virtualization app, so it'd never run it with any high performance as the graphics drivers are virtual (software emulated) and not native (hardware). Try it with any game, it'll probably crash even before playing it, or it'll be extremely slow. But then there's, which lets you run Windows natively (without virtualization) and with high performance on your Mac. After it's installed you'll have to reboot to switch to Windows, but that only takes half a minute each time. Since Apple doesn't like Windows, it makes it REALLY EXTRA SUPER hard to get Boot Camp to work. Obviously cause they hate Windows and never want you to use it. But that means it's full of stupid bugs that you have to figure out yourself how to fix. It took me 10 days. 10 days of tears. Maybe that's why I don't know anybody using Boot Camp. So to save you all the PAIN and time, here is my tutorial with all the tricks to get it working. What you'll need • 16GB USB stick (not an SD card!), I tried a 8GB one as Apple recommends it, but it wasn't big enough, yup WHATEVER! • Windows 8 ISO file, in a perfect world you'd buy this from Microsoft, but they make it really hard and want to ship you a physical CD (what the fuck, it's 2015, let me buy an ISO), so just find an ISO file of Windows somewhere (okay fine, Microsoft, I guess you don't WANT my money) • Steam account to buy GTA V PC (it's about $50 I think, worth it because you can play it online if you buy it legally) Prepare Boot Camp First search for Boot Camp Assistant on your Mac. Click Continue and you'll see this: If this is your first time, select ALL boxes. The first one makes your USB stick loaded with Windows and OSX's boot camp loader, the second one is the Boot Camp drivers it adds, the third one sounds weird but means it'll partition your drive to set up Windows. So now click Continue: Select your Windows ISO file and continue. It'll take some time to copy the Windows ISO to your USB stick, and then download the drivers from Apple that are compatible to your Windows version. When it finishes, you'll see this partition window. This means it'll divide your hard drive up in two pieces, one drive for Windows, one for Mac's OSX. Here it gets really dodgy, because it actually doesn't work properly EVER. You need to choose how big your Windows drive should be. To calculate the size: Windows needs about 20 GB to function, then you need some space for your game. GTA V takes 65 GB, so that is 65+20=85 GB. Click the tool you'd like to use. How to access picture in photos for mac. Here's how to get started: • From the Photos view, or from within an album, double-click the photo you want to edit. • The editing tools appear along the right side of the window. • Click Edit or in the upper-right corner of Photos. ![]() To make it performant I rounded it up to 100 GB. But it depends on how big your games are etc. Is less than 10 GB. So you'd need only 30 to 40 GB probably. But then it doesn't work The reason I said this is dodgy is because it'll probably fail. You'll see this amazingly descript error probably like me and my friends did: It took me days to figure out how to fix it. But it comes down to this: (1) free up space on your drive and (2) if it has disk errors or not. Aim to get about 50% free space. For me that was insane because I have a 1TB drive, with 100 GB free, so I had to free up another 400 GB. It helps to just put stuff on an external hard drive while you're setting up Boot Camp, you can put it back after. The non-blue stuff on Macintosh HD is my free space, not enough obviously. Make sure you get about 50% free space on your drive.
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