Aion Gold

I'm happy to report that, from my experiences, it runs very well! Playing Aion on a Windows-booted Mac runs quite smoothly for me and nobody in-game would be able to tell I was on a Macintosh computer. I was able to run right alongside other players just as efficiently. Or, in a surprising number of cases, more efficiently, since I seemed oddly immune lag earlier in Open Beta. Of course, if you want to play, you have your work cut out for you. Setting up your Macintosh to run Aion isn't a small task and, once you have the game running, there are issues you will have to deal with. Perhaps the biggest barrier to entry for most Mac players would be obtaining a copy of Windows. This requires spending some cash just to get started. When you do get a copy, you will have to set up the Windows partition and install the operating system on it.

This I won't go into detail on, as the OSX install disks, which you will need, the Bootcamp application, and the Apple website all have instructions that give the steps for the entire process. For those who haven't done this before, be prepared to spend an hour or longer to complete the set up, as you'll need to make the partition, install Windows, download Aion, and then patch the game. Once you have Windows on your computer and the Bootcamp drivers installed so that Windows recognizes your hardware, the next step would be to install Aion on your computer. Fortunately, this is straight forward. It's not until you get into the game where complications start to arise. First and foremost, many Apple mice and touchpads do not have a right-click feature. Newer models are much better about this, but older computers often lack them.