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<blockquote data-quote="mrplow" data-source="post: 988218" data-attributes="member: 38928">Heavyweight games are never too happy in a Virtual Machine. No matter how optimised the VM Player (Fusion, Parallels, Virtual Box etc) you still have to reserve cpu/ram/gpu power to run OSX alongside windows. Not to mention that they aren't able to perform all the DirectX tricks that a dedicated 'real' install of winodws is capable of.What I'd suggest doing is:1. Delete your VMWFusion Windows 7 VM2. use the Bootcamp assistant to create a bootcamp partition (more info <a href="http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/" target="_blank">here</a>)3. Install windows 7 on the bootcamp partition4. Fire up VMW Fusion and it will detect your bootcamp partition and allow you to access it.This way you'll be able to reboot into Windows 7 and get the full power of your Mac to play games but you'll also have access to Windows for everyday stuff using VMWFusion from within OSX.If you only need Windows for gaming you can just do without VMWFusion and just use bootcamp</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mrplow, post: 988218, member: 38928"] Heavyweight games are never too happy in a Virtual Machine. No matter how optimised the VM Player (Fusion, Parallels, Virtual Box etc) you still have to reserve cpu/ram/gpu power to run OSX alongside windows. Not to mention that they aren't able to perform all the DirectX tricks that a dedicated 'real' install of winodws is capable of. What I'd suggest doing is: 1. Delete your VMWFusion Windows 7 VM 2. use the Bootcamp assistant to create a bootcamp partition (more info [URL="http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/"]here[/URL]) 3. Install windows 7 on the bootcamp partition 4. Fire up VMW Fusion and it will detect your bootcamp partition and allow you to access it. This way you'll be able to reboot into Windows 7 and get the full power of your Mac to play games but you'll also have access to Windows for everyday stuff using VMWFusion from within OSX. If you only need Windows for gaming you can just do without VMWFusion and just use bootcamp [/QUOTE]

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