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<blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 842022" data-attributes="member: 89124"><p>You have to worry about several things with your vmware that will affect performance:</p><p></p><p>1) Did you install vmware tools? If you didn't, do it - it contains extra drivers you really need.</p><p></p><p>2) Vista is DirectX10, although it can support DX9...</p><p></p><p>3) Since VMWare only supports DX9.0c, you'd be better off running XP, it'd also be slimmer and more efficient for games (games tend to run better in XP anyway)</p><p></p><p>4) You shouldn't have set it to 2 cpu's. It's written somewhere in the docs that you will most likely get poorer performance set for 2 cpus on a dual core machine then if you set it to a single cpu. The reason tying into the syncing of the cpu's and sharing of resources on a dual core machine (even in the faq they imply the improved performance is on a quad or 8 core mac pro) see...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The last sentence kind of contradicts the first a bit, but if you read elsewhere in the vmware manual it also talks about it (I don't have my vmware handy as this machine has virtualbox on it instead of vmware which I have at home)</p><p></p><p><strong>Multiple Virtual CPUs are recommended when you have applications that can take advantage of multiple processor cores and you have a quad-core or octo-core Mac Pro.</strong></p><p></p><p>I've run some games in fusion and they've worked *ok*, some have been terrible (ie: I tried EQ2 for the heck of it - it worked, but it was so laggy it really wasn't fun). </p><p></p><p>I'm not surprised Crysis killed the VM in a gory death, - Vista + DX10 + Crysis which will AFAIK use DX10 if it sees it + Fusion DX9 only = recipe for disaster =).</p><p></p><p>Older games will be ok on a VM I think (I've played some older ones, like Diablo and some others with good results) but, like what others have said, you will most likely not be happy running the newest and greatest games (you might be able to play COD2 tho <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ) - for those, bootcamp all the way.</p><p></p><p>I fully agree in keeping your VM around tho - I keep it for my old machine that I migrated so I have access to software I don't have replacements for on my mac yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nethfel, post: 842022, member: 89124"] You have to worry about several things with your vmware that will affect performance: 1) Did you install vmware tools? If you didn't, do it - it contains extra drivers you really need. 2) Vista is DirectX10, although it can support DX9... 3) Since VMWare only supports DX9.0c, you'd be better off running XP, it'd also be slimmer and more efficient for games (games tend to run better in XP anyway) 4) You shouldn't have set it to 2 cpu's. It's written somewhere in the docs that you will most likely get poorer performance set for 2 cpus on a dual core machine then if you set it to a single cpu. The reason tying into the syncing of the cpu's and sharing of resources on a dual core machine (even in the faq they imply the improved performance is on a quad or 8 core mac pro) see... The last sentence kind of contradicts the first a bit, but if you read elsewhere in the vmware manual it also talks about it (I don't have my vmware handy as this machine has virtualbox on it instead of vmware which I have at home) [b]Multiple Virtual CPUs are recommended when you have applications that can take advantage of multiple processor cores and you have a quad-core or octo-core Mac Pro.[/b] I've run some games in fusion and they've worked *ok*, some have been terrible (ie: I tried EQ2 for the heck of it - it worked, but it was so laggy it really wasn't fun). I'm not surprised Crysis killed the VM in a gory death, - Vista + DX10 + Crysis which will AFAIK use DX10 if it sees it + Fusion DX9 only = recipe for disaster =). Older games will be ok on a VM I think (I've played some older ones, like Diablo and some others with good results) but, like what others have said, you will most likely not be happy running the newest and greatest games (you might be able to play COD2 tho ;) ) - for those, bootcamp all the way. I fully agree in keeping your VM around tho - I keep it for my old machine that I migrated so I have access to software I don't have replacements for on my mac yet. [/QUOTE]
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