Hi,
With the new release of VMWare yesterday, just thought it was worth making a point of the new Direct3d support for guest OSs which is now out of beta development.
I have just run a couple of tests to see if its actually any good, and it seems to be! I have waited a long time for 3d support in VMs, and while this is still very early, I think within a couple of years it could well be top notch. There are a lot of problems running games under WINE, and with 3D support like this turning up in VMs its very good news.
Support currently covers DirectX 9C only, and tonight I only had 1 old game handy to test, Max Payne, which while admitadly isnt graphically amazing, i was able to run it nativly in a Windows XP SP3 VM at 50-70FPS (full screen @ 1680x1050) which I thought is pretty good? I think the graphics adapter only has 128mb memory maybe this is changable? I do have a feeling it might be quite hardware intesive though, so having things like CPU virtualization technology is probably a big help.
I was using the following hardware:
8800GTX, Q6600 @ 3.10Ghz and 4gb Ram under Arch x64.
Very good news anyway to see this in the final product, things will only progress now for easier gaming under Linux
With the new release of VMWare yesterday, just thought it was worth making a point of the new Direct3d support for guest OSs which is now out of beta development.
I have just run a couple of tests to see if its actually any good, and it seems to be! I have waited a long time for 3d support in VMs, and while this is still very early, I think within a couple of years it could well be top notch. There are a lot of problems running games under WINE, and with 3D support like this turning up in VMs its very good news.
Support currently covers DirectX 9C only, and tonight I only had 1 old game handy to test, Max Payne, which while admitadly isnt graphically amazing, i was able to run it nativly in a Windows XP SP3 VM at 50-70FPS (full screen @ 1680x1050) which I thought is pretty good? I think the graphics adapter only has 128mb memory maybe this is changable? I do have a feeling it might be quite hardware intesive though, so having things like CPU virtualization technology is probably a big help.
I was using the following hardware:
8800GTX, Q6600 @ 3.10Ghz and 4gb Ram under Arch x64.
Very good news anyway to see this in the final product, things will only progress now for easier gaming under Linux
