Team Fortress 2 & L4D With Parallels 4

[AnthroAndStargate]

I just tried Parallels 4 with TF2 and I got between 15-90 FPS with an average of 30. It was for the most part playable with occasionally spurts of major lag (like 2-3 sec freeze/sputtering, I wonder why). It was unfortunately hardware DX 8 with software dx9 so the awesome tf2 "glow" and facial animations were not there.

I was playing both at 800x600 and fullscreen at 1440x900, didn't seem to be much of a difference either way.

I tried to play L4d. It loaded the video then went to the main screen but the main screen was all black. You could select stuff (hear it) but not do anything. If you pressed Shift + Enter a Steam interface would come up with friends list.

Has anyone tried Fusion 2 with L4D? How did that work?

A bit of a bummer but still impressive. I think it may be on par with Crossover.

 

[TangoJuliet]

What type of system were you running it on? I have an 3.06ghz iMac with a 8800GS and was wondering how it would run on that.

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

Originally posted by: TangoJuliet
What type of system were you running it on? I have an 3.06ghz iMac with a 8800GS and was wondering how it would run on that.

I was using it on an Early 08 MBP 2.4 with 8600 256mb ram 4 gigs ram.

I uninstalled Parallels already - I am going to try Fusion 2 again.

Parallels runs really well but a lot of stuff on it pisses me off. Mainly how its puts a bunch of networking stuff in your networking settings and what not. VM Ware seems more contained, which I like. I'd say Parallels runs a bit better then VMWare but seems to be DX 8 (not 9) so it looks worse.

 

[ViRGE]

VMWare Fusion 2 is SM2 (DX9).

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

I just ran Left 4 Dead on Fusion 2 and it actually ran!! Wouldnt run with Parallels 4 - it was a bit choppy at times and didnt look as good as when I run it on boot camp of course

 

[Kmax82]

I think it's weird.. just bought HL1 because it was only .98 on Steam, and it won't run in D3d mode.. just odd that a game that old is having trouble running on VMWare's D3d driver. Good to know that Left4Dead works, though.

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
I think it's weird.. just bought HL1 because it was only .98 on Steam, and it won't run in D3d mode.. just odd that a game that old is having trouble running on VMWare's D3d driver. Good to know that Left4Dead works, though.

I play CS off of Steam under Fusion 2. I'm not sure what mode though. I'll check. It actually works pretty well except one annoying thing:

I have a 5 button MX1000 mouse, so I map buttons 4,5 and 6 (the thumb rocker and buttons) to Expose (the "up" button exposes app windows, the middle one exposes all windows and the down button exposes the desktop). So, unless there's a setting I'm missing, whenever I play CS, I have to go into settings to disable those (since I usually map them to buttons in CS; jump, walk and crouch, I believe).

But even when I do that, some weird thing happens that when I hold down the crouch button, and fire, it activates the secondary weapon thingee. I've been killed so many times because of that. It seems to work when I use the crouch button on the keyboard, and even with the mouse it actually crouches, but nothing sucks more than being in a crouch, ready to shoot someone, and you see them and POW! Now you're screwing on your silencer.