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<blockquote data-quote="rholmes01" data-source="post: 841842" data-attributes="member: 99836"><p>Hi All, I have just bought an iMac 3.06 GT130 together with VMware (as recommended in the Apple store I visited) but I have a number of questions about how VMWare (and Vista as loaded) should be behaving. The virtual machine is set to 2 processors and 3064 Mb RAM. I admit that the only reason i got VMWare was to run my windows games - I am perfectly happy to run all my other stuff on native Mac.</p><p></p><p>My questions are..... </p><p></p><p>1. it says that the graphics available through VMWare are only SVGA, and there seems to be no way to get anything better than this - the 'windows experience' score comes back a 1.0. Does this mean I will not be able to run games such as windows versions Crysis/COD4/COD5. I just installed Crysis and the whole VM went into a hang with a blck screen</p><p></p><p>2. it takes around 30 secs to access the virtual c: drive and see the sub-foldres - is this right?</p><p></p><p>3. I also play a mmorpg (Entropia Universe) but when accessing it via VMware/Vista, I seem to get around 1fps and no/limited mouse control. This seems to be part of a general speed/timing issue in the VM.</p><p></p><p>4. Would Parallels be a better product for running games?</p><p></p><p>Many thanks for any help you can give.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rholmes01, post: 841842, member: 99836"] Hi All, I have just bought an iMac 3.06 GT130 together with VMware (as recommended in the Apple store I visited) but I have a number of questions about how VMWare (and Vista as loaded) should be behaving. The virtual machine is set to 2 processors and 3064 Mb RAM. I admit that the only reason i got VMWare was to run my windows games - I am perfectly happy to run all my other stuff on native Mac. My questions are..... 1. it says that the graphics available through VMWare are only SVGA, and there seems to be no way to get anything better than this - the 'windows experience' score comes back a 1.0. Does this mean I will not be able to run games such as windows versions Crysis/COD4/COD5. I just installed Crysis and the whole VM went into a hang with a blck screen 2. it takes around 30 secs to access the virtual c: drive and see the sub-foldres - is this right? 3. I also play a mmorpg (Entropia Universe) but when accessing it via VMware/Vista, I seem to get around 1fps and no/limited mouse control. This seems to be part of a general speed/timing issue in the VM. 4. Would Parallels be a better product for running games? Many thanks for any help you can give. [/QUOTE]
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