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Virtual PC 6 is here!
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ok guys, i did what you all asked me to do. I turned everything to 640 by 480. seemed pretty smooth running around and shooting. i got a solid 12 frames a second. on my pc with a 2ghz p4 and geforce 4 ti 4400 128mb i get about 72 frames a second. the only problem is the size of the screen. the screen is so small it is hard to move straight using the mouse. i turned mouse sensitivity to the lowest possible but stilll very annoying when moving. if that problem can be fixed this may actually be playable. buy you guys got to conisider i have a great mac. unless you have a really really good mac, this wont even be worth my time. im not even gonna bother with it anymore, im to hooked on battlefield 1942 and americas army on my pc. if you guys want me to try any more things just drop a post and ill do it as soon as possible.
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VPC 6 can freeze your OSX!!
I've been using this version for a week or two and it "unexpectedly quits" a lot.But today win98 shown a blue screen and my mac went down, like the old OS9 would. I mean, the mouse did't move and even force quit didn't worked either.Never seen this before in OSX. 10.2.3
I've been using this version for a week or two and it "unexpectedly quits" a lot.But today win98 shown a blue screen and my mac went down, like the old OS9 would. I mean, the mouse did't move and even force quit didn't worked either.Never seen this before in OSX. 10.2.3
That's quite interesting.
A week ago I had normal HL on my iMac (400Mhz, 512MB RAM, 8MB ATi) with VPC 5.0.4
I set all the settings to low and set the resolution to something similar in size to a postage stamp. It ran quite smoothly under full screen mode.
Anyways...
Compare to PC
I am an engineer and need to run EDA software. Most of it is not graphic intensive. Ex. Orcad, Pads Layout, Xilinx dev tools, Synplicity, Modelsim... and various embedded compilers.
I can use a PC with VNC but it is slow over 802.11b. I am gonna need a new laptop and was thinking about changing to a powerbook or ibook. I would need to run VPC for my EDA tools. Can someone give a coarse comparison to what an equilivant PC would be?
Ex: 1G TIbook => 400MH PC? Hopefully better...
How would an ibook fare?
I am an engineer and need to run EDA software. Most of it is not graphic intensive. Ex. Orcad, Pads Layout, Xilinx dev tools, Synplicity, Modelsim... and various embedded compilers.
I can use a PC with VNC but it is slow over 802.11b. I am gonna need a new laptop and was thinking about changing to a powerbook or ibook. I would need to run VPC for my EDA tools. Can someone give a coarse comparison to what an equilivant PC would be?
Ex: 1G TIbook => 400MH PC? Hopefully better...
How would an ibook fare?
These are 2 very conflicting reports, one says runs like **** and the next says the previous version can run it fine
...Um... that is very weird.
Re: VPC 6 can freeze your OSX!!
i upgraded last night, and not only did it unexpectedly quit, it caused EVERY OTHER PROGRAM on my mac to quit repeatedly, then it deleted about 1/4 of my preferences, and when i tried to restart, it restarted the finder, not the system. how odd. anyway things are ok now, after fighting with the additions for hours i finally got them installed, it does run fast enough to not be AWFUL now... fast enough for file-sharing, etc.
edit: okay, i spoke too soon, now it's decided that my hard drive image, after having been automatically converted, isn't compatible, and is locked to boot (no pun intended)... i had this problem in 5, i can't believe i'm doing this all again... BAH i hate VPC!
pnw
i upgraded last night, and not only did it unexpectedly quit, it caused EVERY OTHER PROGRAM on my mac to quit repeatedly, then it deleted about 1/4 of my preferences, and when i tried to restart, it restarted the finder, not the system. how odd. anyway things are ok now, after fighting with the additions for hours i finally got them installed, it does run fast enough to not be AWFUL now... fast enough for file-sharing, etc.
edit: okay, i spoke too soon, now it's decided that my hard drive image, after having been automatically converted, isn't compatible, and is locked to boot (no pun intended)... i had this problem in 5, i can't believe i'm doing this all again... BAH i hate VPC!
pnw
Bah, my god-father got it so he is gonna share it with me, so maybe I'll install it and see how it runs for me, I guess its case by case basis. :-/
I just read on MacBidouille that VPC 6 has a bug that causes it to crash on all G3 machines. They explain that this is not the fault of the beta testers, but something that Connectix added after the beta testing was done. MacBidouille claims that there will be an update posted on the Connectix website for next week's MWSF. Here's my question: by any chance do the people who wrote in with problems with VPC 6 have G3 machines? Just wondering.
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thats interesting, I have a G3. At least it isn't a problem with my system only. Do the folks at connectix changed VPC6's code to access the kernel directly?I thought that was the only way to crash OSX. Maybe they are trying to boost speed by doing that. I hope they fix it, as you said
thats interesting, I have a G3. At least it isn't a problem with my system only. Do the folks at connectix changed VPC6's code to access the kernel directly?I thought that was the only way to crash OSX. Maybe they are trying to boost speed by doing that. I hope they fix it, as you said