Here's the problem: My wife has a Macbook Pro (she needed a mac specifically for work). We want to play GTA Online together. We don't have the $$$ to buy a fast PC just to play games on. So I have been looking into ways to get GTA to run on her Mac. To make matters worse we're down to about 25GB of internal storage on her Mac so Bootcamp isnt immediatly viable. Grand Theft Auto V for PC also brings the debut of the Rockstar Editor, a powerful suite of creative tools to quickly and easily capture, edit and share game footage from within Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online. The Rockstar Editor’s Director Mode allows players the ability to stage their own scenes using prominent story. Grand Theft Auto V downloaden bij Softonic - veilig en 100% virusvrij Grand Theft Auto V gratis downloaden, Grand Theft Auto V downloaden.
Well, the Grand theft auto series from Rockstar Games is probably the best action game that is prevalent in the gaming community. That means that all the games released by Rockstar under the Grand theft auto series AKA GTA phenomenally paved way for much more action games to e released by Rockstar. The best to date is GTA vice city which is the next version to GTA III.
GTA vice city was regarded by many in the gaming community with improved gaming features and more details in terms of features and 3-D models. The GTA vice city is also one of the most played games with the highest selling market with its release and most grossing downloads over the internet to date.
License
Full Version
File Size
1.37GB
OS
Mac OS
Developer
Rockstar Games
Overview
GTA Vice City is based on a continuous story-line that constitutes pretty much all of the missions that the players play in the game to finish it. The story is set in the imaginary city of Vice City, that is known for all kind of crimes and vice. The story revolves around the life of Tommy Vercetti, who is out of jail and lands at the vice city on the orders of his boss. The story slowly advances into favors and missions across the whole map of vice city. The interesting fact about the vice city is the aesthetic detailing of 3-D models that help the player to move around in the world of Vice City.
There are properties that the player can acquire with the money that he gets from completing bonus missions and rampage missions that are scattered across the city. the free open world of Vice city gives you a lot of space to roam around and explore the nook and corner of the city. the player can also complete a set of free errands like driving a fire truck and also an ambulance to earn some extra dough to acquire more properties.
Some of the features that made the game a hit in the gaming community include;
1. More Depth to detailing
Compared to its counterpart, GTA vice city had an improved detailing effect on the various elements that were present in the game. There were also improvements in the game in terms of detailing the vehicles, buildings and the characters that are present throughout the game.
The detailing effects greatly influenced the overall gameplay of the game leading to a more engaging gaming experience. since the framework of the game was built on very simple software it was also light on the hard disk space compared to all other highly detailed open-world games released at that time.
2. Interesting Gameplay
The gameplay that was induced within the game was much more interesting and challenging on the whole. The missions were a little standard and needed a dedicated amount of concentration to clear missions. There are also various elements in the game that would make certain missions of the game even more tough to crack.
There are also increased difficulty with each mission which attracted a huge audience in the gaming community to play the game thereby increasing the popularity of the game and increasing the expectations of the Grand theft auto Franchise.
3. Well-defined storyline
Most of the open-world games that were released during the release of GTA vice city were more intricate and baseless. The missions were never interlinked and the story flow was as randomized as it can get. The storyline of GTA vice city, however, was more detailed and intense that made the gameplay even more engaging and fun. The storyline was well thought through and the detailing given to each of the elements present in the game made it even more interesting.
The presentation of the game was much different from the regular damped gameplay from other games. There are also various instances where there is more organization to the elements of the game making it a huge crowd gathered.
4. The free-world advantage
The limitations in the game are very limited in the game and the feeling of playing a free world game can be felt in every frame of the game except for a few exceptions. There is a ton load of things that can be discovered within the game making it even more enthralling to play. The open-world game offers enough doses of violence and various other elements that make up a gangster life. There are also a ton a lot of other elements as well like riding bikes, cars, flying helicopters, riding limousines and boats that adds up to all the gaming experience.
System Requirements for running GTA Vice City with Mac OS
- Processor: Intel core 2 duo processor.
- Memory on RAM: 1GB.
- Hard disk drive space: 9 GB (during installation) and 6GB (during processing).
- Supported operating systems: Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Snow leopard 10.6.2.
- Graphic chips: NVIDIA 7300 GT, Intel X3100 or ATIX1600 graphics chip.
- File size: 1.3GB.
Download GTA vice city for Mac system for free
The installer for Mac systems for installing GTA vice city can be accessed by clicking the link below. Older versions of the Macintosh systems don’t support GTA vice city. make sure that the minimum requirements of the systems are taken care of before installation.
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The best to date is GTA vice city which is the next version to GTA III. The GTA vice city is also one of the most played games with the highest selling market with its release and most grossing downloads over the internet to date.
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Operating System: Mac OS
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Until 2 years ago, I used to be a PC person. I had a giant tower desktop computer with fans with flashing lights. I replaced that with a maxed-out MacBook Pro 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. Why even leave your computer screen to destress when you can do it ON YOUR COMPUTER? YES! YES! 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 Boot Camp, 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. I get 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. Yes. 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.
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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. To make it performant I rounded it up to 100 GB. But it depends on how big your games are etc. Skyrim e.g. 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. So if you have 256 GB drive, get 125 GB free. At 500 GB, 250 GB free. At 1 TB, 500 GB free. You get it.
Now fix those errors
Even after clearing all that space, Boot Camp will probably still whine and fail again, like it did for me.
That’s because it’ll run into some weird errors on your drive. Those weird errors are because off, well, I have no fucking clue. But they’re there. How to fix this? Well you open Disk Utility.
Click “Verify Disk” and it’ll check your disk. This might take awhile. I got this crazy scary error. If you didn’t get that and it’s verified, then just skip this part.
I was like “wait WHAT? NO!”. My SSD drive was broken? Why did nobody tell me! I rebooted into Recovery Mode (reboot and hold CMD+R). There I opened Disk Utility in there to verify my disk. If your disk is encrypted like mine, you need to unlock it first by right-clicking the disk, selecting Unlock and entering your password.
Then I verified it again, repaired everything and it worked fine. There were no errors. Odd right? Who cares! Because after this it worked. I rebooted into normal OSX mode and started Boot Camp Assistant again. This time I only selected the last checkbox:
Let’s try again
There we go, partition it:
After partitioning, Boot Camp Assistant automatically restarts. And then BAM!
Now Windows doesn’t like our partitions
Yay! It’s Windows! On a Mac! Don’t celebrate too early, because this is where hell starts.
See what that says? “Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 3”. Wait WHAT? WHY! Boot Camp was supposed to fix this shit, right? I was supposed to not do anything and Boot Camp would put all the files in the right place, to make it work on Mac, right?
NOPE!
Then you press Format on that partition. And it seems to work but no it doesn’t because it says:
“The selected disk of the GPT partition style”
COME ON!
What does it take for a (wo)man to get a Windows around here?
Well, a lot. After hours of Googling, I figured it out.
You need to reboot back into OSX. Exit the installation. Then hold ALT/OPTION and select Macintosh HD to boot to. Then go back to Disk Utility:
Select your BOOTCAMP partition and go to the Erase tab, then under Format select ExFAT and click Erase. Make sure you’re erasing the correct partition (BOOTCAMP not Macintosh HD).
After that reboot your MacBook into Windows by rebooting and holding the ALT/OPTION key and selecting your USB stick (I think it’s called EFI). It’ll load the Windows install again.
Try selecting the BOOTCAMP partition in the Windows installation again, you can recognize it by the size you made it. For me that was 100 GB (it showed as I think 86 GB). If it still gives an error, go last resort. Remove the BOOTCAMP partition within the Windows installation by clicking Delete.
Then add a new partition by clicking New:
Try installing it on that partition. If that still doesn’t work, you’re out of luck, cause I have no idea either.
And then…it works
You’ll see this.
The problem is that there’s a good chance the Boot Camp drivers for Windows to understand your MacBook (e.g. use WiFi, sound, etc.) aren’t installed. Luckily they’re on your USB stick. In the Start Screen go to search and type File Explorer. Then try to fin your USB stick. Open the Boot Camp folder and find an Install app, open it and let it run. It’ll probably reboot.
Now with all your drivers installed, most of the stuff on your MacBook will work on Windows now. My friend has some problems with the Bluetooth keyboard, but that was an unofficial keyboard. My Apple one worked perfectly. As did my Logitech wireless mouse.
Now let’s make Windows suck less
Okay, so Windows 8 is obviously the worst interface any person has come across. Like Windows 8 itself actually feels pretty solid, if you get out of that insane box square maze mayhem they call the Start Menu now. It’s insane. Who runs this company? So incredibly stupid to do this. My dad just switched to OSX because he couldn’t understand this Start Screen. Biggest fail of the century.
We have no choice though. We want to play games! So to get your start menu (from old times) back, install Classic Shell.
Then set this image as the start button in preferences:
Yay! Now to disable that stupid Start Screen, right-click on the Task Bar, then click Properties, then click the Navigation tab, then check “When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start”, uncheck “When I point to the upper-right corner, show the charms”.
Now install Steam
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I’ll let you do this as it’s pretty easy. Go to Steam and the top right click Install Steam.
Then search for GTA V. Click Download.
Here’s the problem, GTA V is 65 GB and that will take awhile. You obviously don’t want to be stuck for hours in Windows. The trick here is to install Parallels in OSX (if you haven’t already). Reboot to OSX (hold ALT/OPTION and select Macintosh HD) and set Parallels up so it uses the Boot Camp partition. Open Parallels, select Boot Camp on the right and follow the instructions:
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After installing, try playing GTA V. Customize the graphic settings a bit. You can’t play it on super high settings, but you can go pretty far on a MacBook Pro 15″. Like I said, it has an actually really powerful graphics card, so it can run GTA V fine.
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Yay!
Now you can use your Boot Camp partition within OSX with Parallels to download games/software and continue working. Then when it’s finished, reboot to Windows and play your PC games.
It took me awhile to get back into playing games when I did all of this. I mean, it’s like it has to compete with reality, which is already insane for me, and so GTA V felt somewhat “fake” to me for days, until I accepted it was a game, and nothing I did in there would be an actual accomplishment. See, that’s what startup life psychology does to you. And on a serious note, that’s why we should all play more games. Because it helps you get out of your filter bubble.
Going outside to walk your dog? Naaaaaah, why would you! There’s GTA V!
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