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TheDawnTrio

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May 10, 2014
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I need more VRAM for an upcoming amazing game titled Watch_Dogs. I have Parallels with Windows 8.1 Pro, but there's one problem. The game need 1 GB VRAM and I only have 512 MB. I would like to allocate 1536 MB to VRAM from my RAM and from what I've read, there is no virtual BIOS in parallels. I would like to know if there is a safe way to allocate that VRAM to my general iMac. Thanks in advance. :)
 
Watch dogs is a very graphics intensive game. You will get very bad performance if you choose to run it through a virtual machine.
I'm almost sure that you can't allocate normal ram for the GPU.
I would recommend making a windows partition with bootcamp
 
Model Identifier: iMac12,1
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Hmmm ... if the minimum requirements says 1 GB, I think you're out of luck unfortunately :(
I'm not sure though. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Habberkuk is correct. You cannot increase VRAM for a virtual machine beyond what is within that virtual machine's configuration and that is rarely ever beyond the physical amount of VRAM.
 
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