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 03/16/2008 18:34:32
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Systemic Anomaly
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Don't try this at home, kids!
After spending several hours installing Windows and Parallels, the moral of the story here is: stick to Boot Camp for games.
Message edited by Symmetric on 03/16/2008 18:37:23.
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03/16/2008 19:09:58
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Jacked Out
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Looks awesome dude lol.
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03/19/2008 10:31:16
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Transcendent
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I dunno - that tie-dye effect has some potential!  Just curious--because I am a curious person--in the settings, would that be the result of the over-bright filter? I'm wondering, if you haven't wiped that out already, if the effect would clear itself if you remove the color filtering...
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03/20/2008 19:40:26
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Systemic Anomaly
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Don't know, wiped the VM as soon as I actually got it working. Performance is horrible...DirectX acceleration in Parallels is still "alpha" quality, was just checking to see how well it really worked.
On the plus side, the game runs great under Boot Camp. 
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03/21/2008 06:04:04
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Transcendent
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No big deal--I was just wondering. But if the performance sucks, who cares about fixing the look?  Still, good to know all this, and thanks for posting the screen.
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03/21/2008 14:50:02
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Systemic Anomaly
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I think I'll give VMWare Fusion a shot in the near future. Apparently they're much further along with DirectX support.
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03/22/2008 10:01:59
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Coppertop
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Symmetric wrote:
Don't try this at home, kids!
After spending several hours installing Windows and Parallels, the moral of the story here is: stick to Boot Camp for games.
Nice work, but ouch... I feel your pain. 
Having boot camp is one of the smartest things Apple has done in years regarding Macs and just general hardware sales. Even if people hate OS X or don't like the limited performance capabilities of the OS X gaming/graphics subsystem we can still go, "Hey, cool Mac, I'll get one." and not have to give up anything. I'm impressed by the work in Parallels, especially for initial DirectX support for casual apps, but as you note, thank goodness for Boot Camp.
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05/07/2008 13:27:23
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MC Photographer
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Hate to necro this but theres a new VM ware out with some more improvements to direct x 9 suport not sure if annyone wants to try it out ill give it a shot in a lil bit
http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/...displays-m.html
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