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Reefmaster and MacBook Pro 8 years 2 months ago #10188

  • KirtH
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Anyone run Reefmaster on a MacBook Pro using Parallels?
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Reefmaster and MacBook Pro 8 years 2 months ago #10189

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See old post:
reefmaster.com.au/index.php/forum/suppor...-2-osx-and-parallels
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Reefmaster and MacBook Pro 8 years 2 months ago #10190

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You can do it, but you won't be able to use hardware graphics acceleration because this relies on hardware support for DirectX10.1 or later, and Parallels still (as far as I am aware) haven't implemented this - despite the fact that it has been around for over 10 years now. Parallels still only offer DX9. You will miss out on some of the better sidescan mosaic and sonar viewer features (blending, sharpness), but lack of graphics acceleration won't have much negative effect on bathymetric mapping.
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Reefmaster and MacBook Pro 8 years 2 months ago #10191

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Parallels Desktop 13 supports Dx10, but RM failed to run with hardware acceleration under this version too. So the only way is to use Bootcamp. As for me I've installed Bootcamp on external SSD - when I need RM or any other Windows application, I connect it and reboot.
It works smoothly, and I can use all RM functions.
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Reefmaster and MacBook Pro 8 years 2 weeks ago #10287

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Vol wrote:
Parallels Desktop 13 supports Dx10, but RM failed to run with hardware acceleration under this version too. So the only way is to use Bootcamp. As for me I've installed Bootcamp on external SSD - when I need RM or any other Windows application, I connect it and reboot.
It works smoothly, and I can use all RM functions.

Interesting:
can you point me to the guide you followed to install on an external HD? In the past I always failed.

Which Windows version are you using?
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Reefmaster and MacBook Pro 8 years 2 weeks ago #10288

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Install Windows on internal SSD. Then copy it to image using Winclone, restore this image to external SSD, and remove bootcamp from main disk. I use Windows 10 Home.
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Reefmaster and MacBook Pro 8 years 2 weeks ago #10290

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Vol wrote:
Install Windows on internal SSD. Then copy it to image using Winclone, restore this image to external SSD, and remove bootcamp from main disk. I use Windows 10 Home.

thx for the tip.
Have to check if this way is ok with my MBP 17 2007
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Reefmaster and MacBook Pro 8 years 1 week ago #10309

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Hi Matt
finally managed to install Windows 7 on my MacBookPro

Once the RM Demo is launched I get the DirectX alert.
But doing the dxdiag test it tells that I'm using DirectX 11 as by attacched screens
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