Can beamng.drive run on mac with windows vm?

Hi. So, I'm about to buy a macbook air 2017. Can it run beamng.drive on an windows 10 virtual machine?

 

depending on gb and ram

 

Is 8gb ram and 128 gb storage enough?

 

yes

 

the thing about beamng is that if you want to run multiple cars at the same time, a more powerful CPU would be nice (althought apparently it runs great on a 13th gen Core i3)
as for the ram, Beam itself recommends atleast 16, and you also need to consider the fact you'd need to leave some for your actual OS alongside the VM.
although you might just about squeeze through
now the good news is: im pretty sure 2017 MBA's still support Apple's Bootcamp software, which means you could technically install Windows natively instead of having it in a vm (pretty sure you can also dualboot it with MacOS if you want to)

 

Yes, BeamNG.drive can run on a Mac using Windows VM, as long as the VM meets the game's system requirements and has adequate hardware resources allocated.

 

Hello, do you have any free virtualization software to recommend to me?

 

the 2 that come to mind are VMWare Player (free version of paid software, so a bit limited), and Oracle's Virtualbox.


at least for Windows hosts, not sure about Mac.

 

Thanks
I would try both

 

Hello, to keep you informed, I wanted to test but having a Mac under ARM and not Intel it is more complicated to put a Windows

 

it can run but im not sure about how well it would run. you can run it using whisky (a front end for the game porting toolkit) but there will be bad graphical artifacts

 

Fun fact: I built my current PC partially because the game wouldn't run that well on my 2018 Mac Mini. I made a video of my tests on that in case you're curious (with English subtitles as it was initially targeted for my Finnish followers):



The poor repairability vs the price of Macs is what made BeamNG break the camel's back. Even though I grew up with Macs, Apple's anti-repair and anti-customization attitude really got on to my nerves over time, as iPhone 6, for example, was an insult in terms of transferring video files even to a Mac (buggy Lightning to USB connections, AirDrop stopping a transfer for no reason etc.). Personally, I think Apple treats their customers like useful idiots, but let that be a story for another thread.

 

My dad worked at Apple once... In the returns department. Now he will never buy an Apple device, new or otherwise.