Games on virtual machine or Bootcamp?

[David-fr]

Hello all,

I just got my self a new MPB (See sig). I work for a video games company, and from time to time i will need to hop in game for work and sometimes to play

Being that said will i be better installing windows via bootcamp or a virtual machine? i would love to play on one screen and have OS X on the other via spaces.

In a virtual machine does it takes full advantage of graphics, and CPU?

Please advice.

 

[balamw]

In a virtual machine does it takes full advantage of graphics, and CPU?

No. You will need to use Boot Camp to use the graphics hardware to the max.

You can launch a Boot Camp install in a VM as well, so you can still use Windows in a VM if you do a Boot Camp install for things other than graphics intensive games.

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[David-fr]

No. You will need to use Boot Camp to use the graphics hardware to the max.

You can launch a Boot Camp install in a VM as well, so you can still use Windows in a VM if you do a Boot Camp install for things other than graphics intensive games.

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Thanks for the reply, i guess you can't have it all