some questions about virtual machines...

[mcveigh]

I just installed VMware 3.1 in linux, i'm pretty impressed so far.
are there bet VM programs out there? if so what?

now for the most important question.

can I play fullscreen games in a VM like RTCW?😀

so far I can't get VMware to run in full screen though 🙁

 

[manly]

VMware doesn't do DirectX hardware acceleration. In fact, one of the peculiarities of VMware is the virtual display. Other VM products tend to emulate VESA display modes rather than implement a proprietary (somewhat accelerated) display.

So no, you can't play any DirectX hardware-accelerated games with VMware. For that, WineX is probably the best bet on Linux; naturally many games run significantly slower through WineX than natively.

I believe RTCW has a OpenGL native client for Linux, which is the ideal level of support.

 

[mcveigh]

Originally posted by: manly
VMware doesn't do DirectX hardware acceleration. In fact, one of the peculiarities of VMware is the virtual display. Other VM products tend to emulate VESA display modes rather than implement a proprietary (somewhat accelerated) display.

So no, you can't play any DirectX hardware-accelerated games with VMware. For that, WineX is probably the best bet on Linux; naturally many games run significantly slower through WineX than natively.

I believe RTCW has a OpenGL native client for Linux, which is the ideal level of support.

thanks for the info!, ( I used to use the rtcw linux client BTW)