I've had Ship Simulator 2008 for a while and it ran pretty well on my old Dell Studio 17 Laptop that had a little bit of an upgraded processor, 8GB of ram, a decent video card, and so on... Unfortunately it took a dive on me on the latter part of last year and I upgraded to a MacBook Pro 15", I put in 16GB of RAM, Intel Core i7 at 2.2GHz, and I also have the upgraded screen and video card. This all is a tremendous upgrade from my old Dell and so far it has been able to run countless games on the highest of graphical settings, while getting a little warm as you would expect, it has rarely given me a problem.
Yes I know...Ship Simulator will not run on a Mac I am aware. I run VM ware (Virtual Machine Software) on my Mac so I can use some of my old windows applications. Specifically Parallels so I do not have to reboot with bootcamp and can instead keep my Mac side running while I use windows and save a lot of time in doing so. It is using the same exact hardware pieces when I'm using my Mac side too.
I have downloaded SSE from Steam and from Amazon with the same issues many of others have had with it crashing when it gets to the "initialising" part. It locks up everything forcing me to reboot my entire computer. I've tried going in and updating all my drivers, going to the unregister.exe file (that does nothing when I click on it) and have done all the appropriate actions before clicking it. I'm at a loss...everything is updated and everything else runs just fine. Flight Simulator X runs fantastically on my computer and I would think if it can perform fine then SSE shouldn't have any problems.
I really enjoy this software and I am greatly thankful for anyone who can help me get this problem sorted out and I can get back to playing soon!
Thanks,
Austin