Which OS is best for Football Manager 2011?

I am new to Football Manager and considering buying FM 2011 when it is released on 5th November. I have two laptops: a MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard) and a Dell XPS M1530 (Vista). Which one would it best to play FM 2011 on?

Either one is perfectly fine, and you can swap save games between the two as well.

I have played the last 2-3 games on my mac book pro. I have not had any problems with it at all. Runs fine and I run about 6-8 leagues usually.

i found windows 7 64 bit to be very good for fm10, hoping it's the same for fm11

Play on the better laptop.

Whichever one is more powerful. I played fm10 on a mac this year for first time as it was a really powerful comp and it ran like a dream just sucked on 3d as the graphics card was lame in the mac so pc for that matter if its powerful enough!

Depends on whats inside your computer.

Which OS does Football Manager work best on?

Which OS does Football Manager work best on?

OS does not matter. Maybe avoid Vista as it uses a lot of RAM.

So if I played Football Manager 2011 on Mac OS X 10.6.4, it would run good?

So if I played Football Manager 2011 on Mac OS X 10.6.4, it would run good?

Yes .

Ubuntu 10.10

Ubuntu 10.10

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You can only run FM through wine on linux.

Its buggy and I would recommend a multiboot.

If you have a lot of RAM, a 64-bit system would be helpful

Ubuntu 10.10

I use macs but I do have a soft spot for Linux.

OS does not matter. Maybe avoid Vista as it uses a lot of RAM.

Bad ishu! Not strictly true...Not much variation between Vista and 7. Most benchmarks spot at worst a 10% decrease in graphical performance but varies little in CPU/Ram intensive games.

It's just crap in general!

Bad ishu! Not strictly true...Not much variation between Vista and 7. Most benchmarks spot at worst a 10% decrease in graphical performance but varies little in CPU/Ram intensive games.

It's just crap in general!

lol - from now on no one will ever take anything from you seriously..

From my experience Windows 7 is the most stable OS out there, but sadly costs alot. Ubuntu is a very good free OS, but comes with little bugs and problems, but most should be ironed out by now (I had 9.4 installed - which had LOTS of small problems)

I havent tried Mac OS so wont comment on that..

Here's an important thing: DONT listen to the moronic linux/win/mac fanboys.. they're easy to spot and cant offer you any useful advice so just ignore them

Bad ishu! Not strictly true...Not much variation between Vista and 7. Most benchmarks spot at worst a 10% decrease in graphical performance but varies little in CPU/Ram intensive games.

It's just crap in general!

I just dumbed it down.

Actually Win 7 is very highly optimized for multi-threading and if you have a capable proccy you'll defo see a big difference (around 30%).

PS. For some reason Benchmarks came up awkwardly on this site.

lol - from now on no one will ever take anything from you seriously..

From my experience Windows 7 is the most stable OS out there, but sadly costs alot. Ubuntu is a very good free OS, but comes with little bugs and problems, but most should be ironed out by now (I had 9.4 installed - which had LOTS of small problems)

I havent tried Mac OS so wont comment on that..

Here's an important thing: DONT listen to the moronic linux/win/mac fanboys.. they're easy to spot and cant offer you any useful advice so just ignore them

Usually easy to spot the clueless FOTM fanboy but I have worked with guys before - well qualified, much more so than me - that still stick to their favoured OS through thick and thin. like one server engineer that tries to stick Windows 2000 on everything he touches and a developer who runs an O/S2 virtual machine because "It's the best OS ever made".

I just dumbed it down.

Actually Win 7 is very highly optimized for multi-threading and if you have a capable proccy you'll defo see a big difference (around 30%).

PS. For some reason Benchmarks came up awkwardly on this site.

True Ishu. but very few games really take proper advantage of that and it generally leads you to only noticing it letting you alt-tab easier lol. 7 is what they wanted Vista to be for the most part.

True Ishu. but very few games really take proper advantage of that and it generally leads you to only noticing it letting you alt-tab easier lol. 7 is what they wanted Vista to be for the most part.

Really? More and more games are getting optimized for multicores. Benches show that games work best with around 3 to 4 cores. And FM also got an award for best utilization of multicores from Intel for their Core i series.

As everyone says; just try on both and see which works better.

Although, neither are ideal because Vista sucks and macs are underpowered.

Really? More and more games are getting optimized for multicores. Benches show that games work best with around 3 to 4 cores. And FM also got an award for best utilization of multicores from Intel for their Core i series.

That I did not know!

Game set and match to Ishu

That I did not know!

Game set and match to Ishu

:cool:

The game runs perfectly on OS X Snow Leopard, and I presume it will be equally as good on windows 7.

so Mac OS and Windows...... does the game comes with different package, or the one on the shelf will work on both systems?

so Mac OS and Windows...... does the game comes with different package, or the one on the shelf will work on both systems?

Both on one disc.

Usually easy to spot the clueless FOTM fanboy but I have worked with guys before - well qualified, much more so than me - that still stick to their favoured OS through thick and thin. like one server engineer that tries to stick Windows 2000 on everything he touches and a developer who runs an O/S2 virtual machine because "It's the best OS ever made".

Windows 7 is hardly flavour of the month - in fact it's just celebrated it's first birthday. And Win7 deserves its praise. Mind you, sticking to Windows 2000 is crazy talk!! Windows 3.1, now there was a classic system.

To the OP, you won't find too much difference b/w the two. I would probably stick with the Mac. Vista wasn't as bad as people made out, but it does run like a dog on lower powered machines in a way that WinXP and Win7 don't (and that's despite Vista and Win7 running off the same kernal).