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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2005Virtual PC - windowa based game on a Mac?
Is it possible that Virtual PC7 would allow my kids to play windows based games on a G5 Mini. The games that they play now are running on a 6 year old laptop running Win98. For Example (game)Backyard Baseball 2004. Thanks. > Is it possible that Virtual PC7 would allow my kids to play windows > based games on a G5 Mini. The games that they play now are running on > a 6 year old laptop running Win98. For Example (game)Backyard Baseball > 2004. > > Thanks. Not if they require DirectX. I do have the old version of LodeRunner working in VPC but had to turn off the music to make it play at a decent speed. Bill > Not if they require DirectX. I guess you mean Direct3D, because DirectX isn't really the problem.  SignatureM.I.K.e More accurately, not if they require 3D Hardware support (such as Direct 3D or OpenGL). Direct X is much more than just Direct 3D. > Is it possible that Virtual PC7 would allow my kids to play windows > based games on a G5 Mini. Actually the Mac mini has a G4 (either 1.25 or 1.42 GHz), the current iMac has a G5 (1.6 or 1.8 GHz). > The games that they play now are running on > a 6 year old laptop running Win98. It depends very much on the needs of the game and how has the emulator can run on the Mac. Games that need 3D graphics (practically every game that needs more than 4MB video RAM) won't run at all. I was able to play Grim Fandango via VPC7 on my 2GHz G5. That game needs a 133MHz Pentium according to LucasArts. I'd say anything that needs more than 150MHz and tries to use sound and graphics at the same time wouldn't run properly on my Mac. Also for games I recommend Windows 98, because it seems to provide better performance in that respect when compared to Windows 2000 or Windows XP. > For Example (game)Backyard Baseball 2004. I don't know the game, but it seems to be quite new, so I assume it probably doesn't work, but you should check the requirements. SignatureM.I.K.e Almost certainly not :-) Your kids may be able to play their old games, but not the new ones they will want next week. I would consider it very risky to allow them to install "old" Windows 9.x games these days. Those old games used to install all sorts of teaks to low-level drivers such as the graphics drivers to get more speed out of Windows. This sort of thing caused many a Windows installation to become very unstable. VPC does not supply sufficient system resource to run most PC games on a very fast Mac. The Mac Mini is NOT "very fast" :-) Cheers On 18/1/05 8:12 AM, in article 1105996359.639724.278840@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "Jerry101" <Jerry.Hermes@UOP.com> wrote: > Is it possible that Virtual PC7 would allow my kids to play windows > based games on a G5 Mini. The games that they play now are running on > a 6 year old laptop running Win98. For Example (game)Backyard Baseball > 2004. > > Thanks. SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410 > On 18/1/05 8:12 AM, in article > 1105996359.639724.278840@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "Jerry101" [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > VPC does not supply sufficient system resource to run most PC games on a > very fast Mac. The Mac Mini is NOT "very fast" :-) The Mac Mini is also not a G5 - it's a G4. :o) Virtual PC is not designed for playing games (or other software) that requires a 3D graphics accelerator, which rules out pretty much every game for about the last five years or so. Having said that, *old* games that don't need 3D often do work ok-ish, if running slowly. I have had a demo of Jedi Knight running on my beige G3 with Virtual PC 3 that was ALMOST playable. I've also had Commandos running on the same system and it was pretty playable. * BUT * I wouldn't buy Virtual PC for playing any games - it's fairly expensive just to find out it wont work. You probably better off (and it's probably cheaper) to get a decent second-hand Windows PC instead. Perhaps wait for the next version (Virtual PC 8) which is reportedly going to access the Mac's 3D graphics card and should run older games faster - plus by then we'll have G6 computers that will also be faster at emulating the PC. :o) Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) John You only have a slim chance of installing and running games in VPC. On the other hand, you can set up a new Virtual PC just for Windows 98 and its games and use it just for that. If a games messes up the Operating System (ie Win98) then scrap the vpc file and start again. That is one advantage of a VIRTUAL PC compared with a real PC. To keep the kids happy you might look at going further back and get some old DOS games. There is freeware to enable you to run these under OS X without VPC/Windows - for example DOSBOX. See http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/aoaug/mac_osx.html#dosbox Michael Paine >>On 18/1/05 8:12 AM, in article >>1105996359.639724.278840@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "Jerry101" [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > Helpful Harry > Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) |
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