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VPC can play PC games?

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phrackattack

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Jul 19, 2006
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Hi guys, I have a few questions about Vitrual PC and it's capabilities/limitations. I know that the VPC emulates a 4MB S3 Trio; is there any way to increase the amount of memory that the emulated graphics card can use?

Is it possible, given enough RAM, (4 gigs) to play graphics-intense PC games like FEAR, HL2, and Oblivion on VPC?

Does VPC also allow for graphics acceleration?

http://www.imagecomics.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=18060&start=60
 
gekko513 said:
No, you can't play graphics intensive games in VPC. No chance.
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So it doesn't matter how much RAM you have? This guy claims he can with 4 gigs of RAM. He refuses to give screenshots, but he's stuck by that story for a while.
 
VPC can take a maximum of 512MB of RAM. It doesn't matter if you have 8GB or anything, VPC will only take 512MB. The rest is for Mac OS X.
 
No playing games on VPC is really just impossible unless they are really old ones. You can allot up to 16MB of VRAM to VPC (not that it really helps). :)
 
I was almost 100% certain that this was the case, I just needed the verification because I hadn't used VPC myself.
 
michaeldmartin said:
You'd have better luck playing oblivion on this stapler than in vpc :)
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I always thought VPC had the responsiveness of a dead pig, trying to do anything intensive on VPC is an excersize in creating Frankenpig with with a pair of tweezers and a doilie.
 
TEG said:
I have zero problems playing Roller Coaster Tycoon on my VPC. On a TiBook 667 (and 500) with Win2K.

TEG
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Roller Coaster Tycoon is a 2D game. VPC handles 2D fairly *ok* - it has no 3D support. Roller Coaster Tycoon is also 7 years old, and it's graphics engine is just a modified version of the TTDX engine - which is 12 years old as of this writing.

EDIT: TTDX = Transport Tycoon Deluxe (fun game)
 
phrackattack said:
So it doesn't matter how much RAM you have? This guy claims he can with 4 gigs of RAM. He refuses to give screenshots, but he's stuck by that story for a while.
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Well, your guy is probably a liar. VPC does NOT support graphic card which sucks. You are better off for bootcamp. Nothing else to show. Move along. :cool:
 
supremedesigner said:
Well, your guy is probably a liar. VPC does NOT support graphic card which sucks. You are better off for bootcamp. Nothing else to show. Move along. :cool:
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No-one would use VPC on an intel mac. This is not the point of the discussion. This is about PPC macs for which VPC is the best solution there is. Pay attention.. ;)
 
supremedesigner said:
Well, your guy is probably a liar. VPC does NOT support graphic card which sucks. You are better off for bootcamp. Nothing else to show. Move along. :cool:
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I didn't even know VPC ran on Intel Macs. That must be horrible, since it is still a PowerPC only app.
 
quigleybc said:
I play the extremely graphic intensive Worms Armegeddon on VPC.....:p
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I remember that game! Wow. Great fun I miss that.

VPC won't do any 3d worth a darn on PowerPC. I'm running VPC7 on my powerbook and it won't even do the IKEA home planner software... not that I, uh, use that or anything. ;)
 
VPSuck

I remember reading less than a month ago that someone was developing software that will let you run windows apps (mainly office apps) in OSX without emulation on the intel macs. Can someone link me to the article or company who's working on the software? I believe they said it was due out sometime this month and i'd love to get FruityLoops running on my mac:D
 
Beni Rose said:
I remember reading less than a month ago that someone was developing software that will let you run windows apps (mainly office apps) in OSX without emulation on the intel macs. Can someone link me to the article or company who's working on the software? I believe they said it was due out sometime this month and i'd love to get FruityLoops running on my mac:D
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The WINE port:
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/


With Microsoft Virtual PC, you can run games like Word, Paintshop Pro, MS Project, and other cool apps like Calculator and clock.
 
xPismo said:
VPC won't do any 3d worth a darn on PowerPC. I'm running VPC7 on my powerbook and it won't even do the IKEA home planner software... not that I, uh, use that or anything. ;)
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Their kitchen planner is great fun!
 
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