Which is more stable OSX or Windows?

Good day all,

I puchased PA ysterday but haven't been able to install it yet (lots of work and study).

When I do though I have a Mac Pro (with a GTX 680) that dual boots between OSX 10.8.5 (can't go to mavericks because it breaks my Virus TI (synth)) and Windows 8.1.

In all seriousness, which platform should I install on in regards to stability and overall experience.

It's not that big of a deal for me to have to boot into another OS but if PA is just as good or even more stable on OSX then it would be great to be able to stay in my main OS when playing with friends.

To my knowledge, at the moment there is no reason not to play PA on OSX.

Windows is more stable.

But dual booting another OS does take up resources, which could make the difference. Which is why I play on OSX rather than booting up Parallels.

You could always install it on both and just give it a try.

OP didn't ask about linux?
In anycase the real answer to this question will only be had when the game is done.

I doubt OP mean "dual boot" as booting in virtual machine.

If Windows is more stable then that's probably the smart choice my system is quite beefy so I do think it shouldn't be too bothered by any additional resource usage.

I will be honest, I am new to OSX. I got into music production 4 years ago and was perfectly happy using Windows but it seems that every other musician and producer you meet out there is using OSX so you really do have to go that route.

And I am suffering from ISP guilt at the moment. I just installed Logic X (Oh, let me download 36GB of additional content) and I downloaded some games for gold from live (gigs there) and I fear that I will get one of those ISP heavy usage letters when the reality is that I all I am doing is installing software that I have paid for from an online source.

I think when I checked that PA was only 2GB right? I guess that's not too bad to install twice. And I am certain that I am being WAY too paranoid about Internet usage.

Just consider them all unstable the game still in development.

Yes you're right, DEFINITELY not going the Virtual route. I can bot between Win 8.1 and OSX on my system.

Another thing I suppose, when I think about it, is that my OSX literally has thousands of dollars of plug-ins and production environment there. I probably really should just use it as a music production environment and not install games there.

But being new to OSX I am (possibly foolishly) assuming that an OSX game doesn't come with the problems that Windows games do adding crappy services and slowing down your system and adding crap to slow down your kernel so you can't get a decent audio response time under 10ms.

Go with windows now, look into switching to mac (if you want to play on mac) later. Windows is more stable, I assume mac is in a similar but maybe slightly better situation than linux. I am on windows now and will be on linux when it's properly playable.

There's a key difference between dual booting and booting in virtual machine.

If he did mean booting in virtual machine then he said the wrong phrase.

And he likely did mean dual boot since Parallels is so easy to use to do a seamless dual boot.

Dual booting won't take up any extra resources, as OS X isn't running at the same time.

http://www.parallels.com/

Running two operating systems at the same time.

Dual boot means 2 boot partitions usually not a virtual machine...

Why would someone pay for parallels when bootcamp partitions the drive and allows windows to install on it's own separate NTFS partition.

The only bonus parrallels has is being able to switch between mac osx and windows with the click of a button instead of "Re-booting" to load the second partition..

Windows will allow you to update your drivers where mac osx drivers are built into os updates...

during beta/gamma windows would probably be the better option.
In any circumstance you can download both build's and try them both...

Running two operating systems at the same time is done through using a virtual machine, which absolutely does use extra resources. What we are talking about is dual booting, which only has a single operating system running at once. When discussing gaming the assumption is that people wouldn't even consider running the game inside a VM (although I have done it just to see if I can), so he most likely meant true dual boot.

The quality of drivers on windows I think is slightly better. Our overall system support is also slightly better on windows.

edit: nvm. i was going to use this opportunity for a cheap linux plug, but all the funny/cool linux penguin images are too big. besides, neutrino and all his big, fancy facts and helpful information above kinda popped my bubble.

You got it, mine is a dual boot scenario. It boots directly into Win 8.1. I should have investigated what Parallels is first before creating any confusion.

But no, mines a definite boot between the two OS'es - no virtualization, no parallels.

The perfect answer, thank you so much.

And you know, it probably does make more sense to keep games in Windows due to the investment in my music production environment. It is worth babying and keeping very clean to ensure the lowest latency for playing and no "deadline problems" - you know the ones that come out of nowhere because you installed some obscure program a couple of weeks ago (that you forgot about when trying to troubleshoot).

@wheeledgoat here you go

https://www.behance.net/gallery/Linux-visual-identity-redesign/14661255

For the record i've had less crashes in PA since switching to linux. Can't say anything about performance but it's sure is stable.