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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2007have the graphics changed from version 6.1 to 7
from wat i have been reading it seems that from the old 6.1 that it still didnt alow 3D grahpics , but only 2D , and as i am hoping that they have fixed this problem in the 7 version, is this true or am i dreaming :P > from wat i have been reading it seems that from the old 6.1 that it > still didnt alow 3D grahpics , but only 2D , and as i am hoping that > they have fixed this problem in the 7 version, is this true or am i > dreaming :P Nope, you're dreaming. It was rumoured to be in Virtual PC 7 and then 8, but since it's now a dead product, there is NO version of Virtual PC can provide hardware 3D graphics acceleration support (although there was an old version that could be tweaked to some degree of success). At the moment the only way to get such 3D graphics support for Windows applications on the Mac is to use Apple's Boot Camp on an Intel-based Mac. Parallels Desktop (which is similar to VirtualPC and also for Intel-based Macs) is working on 3D graphics support for the next version. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) thank you for your quick responce. i am sad to find this , as i was looking forward to playin some of my PC games whilst i am on holiday , but as you saID the only way to do so is to own a intel AND have a copy of xp to run on bootty camp (sad that it took them so long to do somthing as simple as this > > from wat i have been reading it seems that from the old 6.1 that it > > still didnt alow 3D grahpics , but only 2D , and as i am hoping that [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Helpful Harry > Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) > thank you for your quick responce. > i am sad to find this , as i was looking forward to playin some of my > PC games whilst i am on holiday , but as you saID the only way to do > so is to own a intel AND have a copy of xp to run on bootty camp (sad > that it took them so long to do somthing as simple as this Support for 3D graphics acceleration hardware under an emulator such as Virtual PC is far from "simple". :o) Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) > thank you for your quick responce. > i am sad to find this , as i was looking forward to playin some of my > PC games whilst i am on holiday , but as you saID the only way to do > so is to own a intel AND have a copy of xp to run on bootty camp (sad > that it took them so long to do somthing as simple as this Running a PC OS and APPS on a Mac in native mode wasn't a simple change. It required the Mac to have a PC compatible hardware design. Apple's need for more timely CPU upgrades than IBM was giving forced Apple's hand to convert the Mac hardware to use the Intel CPU, etc. Unfortunately that has been negative for the huge library of Mac PPC APPS; they are toast. |
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