Comments on: Boot Camp vs VMware or Parallels

By: darren

darren — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:20:18 +0000

I was having the same problems as Greg Selker above, running 4gb on macbook pro parallels poor performance. but i discovered in the preferences that i wasn’t giving it enough virtual memory. the other thing that helped was ensuring that i had enough available disk space on the hard drive. both those things and parallels was working at a surprisingly satisfactory level. might want to try those.

By: sacredgeometry

sacredgeometry — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:32:02 +0000

No mac except a Mac Book Pro with non standard gfx updates will run crysis at native resolutions to thier screens…. at least thats on first glance. My pc has trouble with core2duo and 8800gtx (hopefully the geforce10 series will play it)

I havent tried on my 17″MBP but im pretty sure a 8600 gt at 1920×1200 will do jack shit.

Peace

Brian

By: iAsiaFan

iAsiaFan — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:40:51 +0000

no, only in boot camp

By: SubNegativeStudios

SubNegativeStudios — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:13:08 +0000

However, if a game requires shaders it may not run at all. Games that provide the ability to run without shaders can potentially run in VMware Fusion 1.1.”

This sentence says it all, any games that require shaders can not run. And any games that are released nowadays have shaders.

By: SubNegativeStudios

SubNegativeStudios — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:12:07 +0000

No. You cannot run any sophisticated games in VMWare fusion.

from vmware website

“VMware Fusion now has experimental support for DirectX 9.0 3-D graphics (without shader support) to enable more Microsoft Windows 3-D applications and games to run. This will allow for many new games to run in VMware Fusion that could not be previously run. However, if a game requires shaders it may not run at all. Games that provide the ability to run without shaders can potentially run in VMware Fusion 1.1.”

By: latino77

latino77 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:35:21 +0000

me 3

By: bigjohn955

bigjohn955 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:02:35 +0000

They would run really slow inside of a virtual machine. Better to boot directly into windows.

By: Asc3nsi0n

Asc3nsi0n — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:58:00 +0000

can you game in VMware?games like UT3,crysis etc.

By: turshusuyu1818

turshusuyu1818 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:47:50 +0000

good

By: Greg Selker

Greg Selker — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:55:49 +0000

I have a Macbook Pro with 4 GB ram that I am running as a virtual PC with Parallels and I have been pretty disappointed with performance. Parallels has crashed several times and I have lost data in the process, upon crash Parallels reverted to an older snapshot. I travel extensively so my backup was from a week earlier, week’s worth of data lost, ugh! I would like to keep the option for a VM, but I know I am not even taking advantage of the ram that I have. In fact, Parallels tech support has advised me to ratchet down partitioned ram to 1 gb instead of 2. I need 2 for the apps that I run on the PC side are memory hogs and performance would be adversely affected with them. I am very open to suggestions/advise on what to do.

By: dannylberry2

dannylberry2 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:02:20 +0000

can it be done?

By: dannylberry2

dannylberry2 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:02:09 +0000

me 2 :-0

By: ajustwar

ajustwar — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:21:10 +0000

I would use boot camp for what this caller was talking about since you would get full performance. If i were going to rum a virtual machine my vote would be VMware.

By: twistedkatana1

twistedkatana1 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:41:45 +0000

i so so so so badly want a macbook

By: Rikai

Rikai — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:16:09 +0000

Another VM available for mac that might also work would be Virtaulbox, available @ http://virtualbox.org/

Just trying to help give all the available options. :)