Bootcamp to play Dragon Age Inquisition
Okay, so I've wanted to bootcamp windows on my computer for quite awhile now, mostly because there's a lot of software that isn't available for mac. Right now the software I want to download is Dragon Age: Inquisition and Paint Tool SAI.
I bought Parallels, which sucked. It was awful. I was told that it wouldn't be a problem with my processing speed, but when I opened windows it was weirdly blurry and when I played Dragon Age it was stuttering and choppy the whole time. Unfortunately, you can't return Parallels, and I don't know if it can ever be used again once the activation code was used. So... if anyone wants a potentially completely useless version of Parallels, let me know.
So I decided to try bootcamp (which I was stupid enough to not use in the first place, because I have Yosemite and for some reason windows 7 doesn't work on that) and traded in windows 7 for windows 8. I've heard that windows 8 is absolutely awful, so I was planning on getting the "free upgrade" for windows 10, but I have no idea if that would even WORK using bootcamp.
I have a Macbook Pro with these specs:
- 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz) with 6MB shared L3 cache
- Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
- 512GB PCIe-based flash storage
- Intel Iris Pro Graphics
- AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching
If I missed anything, here's the linkto the specs. It's the last one on the right.
In order to run Dragon Age Inquisition, these specs are required:
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
- CPU: AMD quad core CPU @ 2.5 GHz; Intel quad core CPU @ 2.0 GHz
- System RAM: 4 GB
- Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 4870; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
- Graphics Memory: 512 MB
- Hard Drive: 26 GB
- DirectX: 10
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
- CPU: AMD six core CPU @ 3.2 GHz; Intel quad core CPU @ 3.0 GHz
- System RAM: 8 GB
- Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7870 or R9 270; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
- Graphics Memory: 2 GB
- Hard Drive: 26 GB
- DirectX: 11
I want to be able to play this game. It's not the only reason I bought windows, but I still want to be able to play it, I'm just not sure how to make that happen without it being choppy and laggy and basically unplayable.
So basically
- Can/should I install windows 8 on bootcamp and then upgrade to windows 10
- Can my mac even run Inquisition appropriately
- How much "space" (I am so sorry. I can't for the life of me remember what it's called) should I give to Windows? I won't be able to change it after that, so all of that... whatever its called is gone from my mac and will presumably make it run less smoothly/slower.
Sorry this is so long and complicated!! I appreciate any help at all, thank you!!
