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vmware fusion game problems?
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<blockquote data-quote="wmprice1240" data-source="post: 898104" data-attributes="member: 99551"><p>Neither of those games are going to run effectively in VMWare or any other VM solution. </p><p></p><p>All Valve games are GPU intensive and require direct access to the hardware, namely the DirectX API. A VMWare environment does not provide this type of support for the underlying graphics hardware being that it has to go through a translation layer. </p><p></p><p>Note, there is nothing to prevent you from trying this, but you are not going to get anywhere near the frame rates to play these games effectively.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wmprice1240, post: 898104, member: 99551"] Neither of those games are going to run effectively in VMWare or any other VM solution. All Valve games are GPU intensive and require direct access to the hardware, namely the DirectX API. A VMWare environment does not provide this type of support for the underlying graphics hardware being that it has to go through a translation layer. Note, there is nothing to prevent you from trying this, but you are not going to get anywhere near the frame rates to play these games effectively. [/QUOTE]
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