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Virtual PC 6 is here!
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I still think it would be better for Connectix to address the vram solution at the source - currently, all emulation is done via the Mac's processor (including DirectX emulation), and none of the graphic work is offloaded to the Mac's graphic card. This makes for much slower PC emulation in the end.
If Connectix were to do a "Quartz Extreme", for instance, and utilise the graphics card's power to do the screen redraws and computations (thus freeing up the CPU to get down to the essentials of emulating the Pentium without having to worry about placing pixels), they would truly have a PC-beater...
(...and give you the ability to play any damned game you want to...)
If Connectix were to do a "Quartz Extreme", for instance, and utilise the graphics card's power to do the screen redraws and computations (thus freeing up the CPU to get down to the essentials of emulating the Pentium without having to worry about placing pixels), they would truly have a PC-beater...
(...and give you the ability to play any damned game you want to...)
Very nice, actually. The difference is noticeable. It actually feels like more than 25% in some regards.
Chris
Never mind. I figured it out.
VPC 6 runs like a champ on my new tibook 1 gig. It runs Windows 2000 noticeably faster than before. Now back to downloading from kazaa and the newsgroups.
VPC 6 runs like a champ on my new tibook 1 gig. It runs Windows 2000 noticeably faster than before. Now back to downloading from kazaa and the newsgroups.
Thats great news. Looks like I can use my old scientific programs on a shiny new GHz tibook...this is great.
Just what I wanted to hear.
Just what I wanted to hear.
So has anyone tried playing the earliest 3d games yet? Jedi Knight I or Counter-Strike for example? I have an old copy of JK I that I would like to play, but my dad's pc recently died.
also, why all the edits? what am i missing?
also, why all the edits? what am i missing?
mac15 was telling me that in order to get up to 16 megs of vram, you should convert the ram into vram (probably in settings or preferences or something :S)
now 16megs of vram sounds reasonable, more than my peecee for sure
now 16megs of vram sounds reasonable
, more than my peecee for sure
Wow, a whole 16 MB V-Ram, w00t.
Now back to my question, for pure fun can you play CS with that?
No really, if you can I will get it, if not I'll wait till the next version and that basically means Summer. Compared to there timeline of releases.
Now back to my question, for pure fun can you play CS with that?
No really, if you can I will get it, if not I'll wait till the next version and that basically means Summer.
Compared to there timeline of releases.Avid iNews (Television Newsroom Software)
I'm currently running it on a DualG4-500 with VPC5 and Windows 2000.
Hey, you asked!
Anyone wanna answer my question?Originally posted by MrMacman
Wow, a whole 16 MB V-Ram, w00t.
Now back to my question, for pure fun can you play CS with that?
No really, if you can I will get it, if not I'll wait till the next version and that basically means Summer.
Graphic card's use is definitively the way to go.It would be a huge speed increase, though it must be difficult to code.
Wouldn't it be possible to to port win32 API ( sort of like WINE) to the PPC chip so that programs could access the instructions directly and unaltered insted of translating it? Some programs (games) access hardware directly, and in that case it shouldn't help, but most don't, at least not at all times.I think yellowbox was something like that, wasn't it?(Rhapsody)
If that is impossible or extremely hard, could't connectix build an emulator around WINE that doesn't have the overhead of a full
win OS?
What do you think?
These updates seem a little cheap to me...
If a revamped code is what they need, they should do it I mean then they will really sell some of these.
Basically for any thing new for PC's you probably can't run, sure you have the new OS but can you run the programs?
Not the new ones.
16 MB Graphic, ech.
Also, did anyone try what I asked before? (no really please do.)
If a revamped code is what they need, they should do it I mean then they will really sell some of these.
Basically for any thing new for PC's you probably can't run, sure you have the new OS but can you run the programs?
Not the new ones.
16 MB Graphic, ech.
Also, did anyone try what I asked before?
(no really please do.)
Ok guys, this runs like s***. I get between 4-5 frames a second. max is like 10 with the screen really tiny. I would have to recommend saving your hundred dollars and going and buying a cheap a** emachine or gateway to play this game. sorry guys. I really dont think more ram will help this game much.
iJon
iJon
Small screen
Have you tried it in full-screen mode? Might seem a little counter-intuitive, but it's been widely reported (and my own experience, as well) that VPC runs fastest in full-screen mode--perhaps because the CPU doesn't have to "think" about screen re-draws in the background.
I still bet it would be un-playable.
Chris
Have you tried it in full-screen mode? Might seem a little counter-intuitive, but it's been widely reported (and my own experience, as well) that VPC runs fastest in full-screen mode--perhaps because the CPU doesn't have to "think" about screen re-draws in the background.
I still bet it would be un-playable.
Chris
Yes, score one for testing!
Edit: Killed off the rest of my post.
What are you running that on again?
Try different modes, first Full Screen VPC with another video mode for CS (opengl, software, Direct, I think are options) and see if you can pump memory into that sucker
If not I'll wait for 7 I guess (maybe they can get it to a 4 year old Video Memory preference) yay 32 MB (hopes).
Can we say Kazza????????
I would allmost by vpc to run KAZZA but i can get a actual....not vertual PC for like the same price....hmmmm
