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VMWare 1.1 Beta
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Yes, more games should now be compatible, i don't have anything to test unfortunately!
In general windows use it does seem substantially quicker. Boot time was much improved.
As usual with Parallels/Fusion in there current states tho, don't expect to get very far with the latest and greatest games tho, theres a free trial, give it a go and see how far you get.
Poor video performance
I updated to 1.1 but it seems that the video performance is worse than before. I have already checked 3D acceleration already. Even when I drag a window, the movement looks sluggish. I wonder if I have missed anything. Anybody knows what is going on?
I updated to 1.1 but it seems that the video performance is worse than before. I have already checked 3D acceleration already. Even when I drag a window, the movement looks sluggish. I wonder if I have missed anything. Anybody knows what is going on?
Hmm, not sure then, everything seems fine on my Mac Pro running my XP SP2 bootcamp partition.
I notice no change in video performance. However, I did get a TOTAL Mac freeze with the beta, when I tried to update VMWare Tools from the taskbar. It stopped inthe middle and I had to do a hard reset of the Mac. (Oddly enough, the only thing I COULD do during the freeze was move the mouse--which showed a Windows cursor even when mousing over Mac windows. But it would not respond to anything. I was able to sleep and wake, but instead of the usual wake-from-sleep password dialog, I got a Windows cursor over black.)
Next time I tried updating from the Mac menu bar instead, and for whatever reason that was fine.
Next time I tried updating from the Mac menu bar instead, and for whatever reason that was fine.