Video Woes

I installed virtual pc 207 to run a dedicated game server (halo) and wa
told that the video card was not able to support the game.

is there soem way to upgrade teh video card emulation

or is there an alternative product that will support HALO

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selkov

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:09:35 -0500, selkov <>
wrote:

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>I installed virtual pc 207 to run a dedicated game server (halo) and was
>told that the video card was not able to support the game.
>
>is there soem way to upgrade teh video card emulation?
>
>or is there an alternative product that will support HALO?

Video games are generally speaking *not* the area of virtualization,
no matter which virtualization product you look at.
Emulated video is always very lacking.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

thanks guys

of these two recommended "VirtualBox or Vmware Workstation 6.5+
is there any reason to use 1 over the other
performance
Ease of interface
color????

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selkov

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:21:00 -0500, selkov <>
wrote:

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>thanks guys.
>
>of these two recommended "VirtualBox or Vmware Workstation 6.5+"
>is there any reason to use 1 over the other?
>performance?
>Ease of interface?
>color????/

The only thing I can think of is:
- VirtualBox is free
- VMWare Workstation 6.5.3 is not

But I still doubt that you will get what you want in terms of video
performance from either of them.
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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

VirtualBox is easy to install and use. But I agree with the others - it
is probably not up to snuff for games.


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whs

"whs" <> wrote in message
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> VirtualBox is easy to install and use. But I agree with the others - it
> is probably not up to snuff for games.
>
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> whs

If you have been using VPC 2007, VirtualBox has much the same look and
feel as the Connectix based VPC.

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:14:49 -0700 (PDT), Ronald Phillips
<> wrote:

>On Oct 9, 10:09*pm, selkov <gu...@unknown-email.com> wrote:
>> I installed virtual pc 207 to run a dedicated game server (halo) and was
>> told that the video card was not able to support the game.
>>
>> is there soem way to upgrade teh video card emulation?
>>
>> or is there an alternative product that will support HALO?
>>
>> --
>> selkov
>
>Try VirtualBox or Vmware Workstation 6.5+. They support D3D 8+ in
>XP32bit+ guests.

Which should not be necessary for a Halo server:
From http://www.bungie.net
Halo dedicated server requires a personal computer with the following
minimum requirements:
? Multimedia personal computer with a 733 MHz or higher processor
? Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 Service Pack 1, or Windows
XP
? 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM
? 200 MB of available hard disc space
? Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
? Broadband internet connection

These differ from the retail version of Halo PC by not requiring:
? 8x CD-ROM drive
? 32 MB 3D hardware-transform-and-lighting capable video card
? Sound card and speakers or headphones
? DirectX 9.0b

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/

See...
http://communities.intel.com/communi...n-workstations


"selkov" <> wrote in message
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> I installed virtual pc 207 to run a dedicated game server (halo) and was
> told that the video card was not able to support the game.
>
> is there soem way to upgrade teh video card emulation?
>
> or is there an alternative product that will support HALO?
>
>
> --
> selkov

Thanks to al

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selkov

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:48:50 -0700, "Gary Mount"
<> wrote:

>See...
>http://communities.intel.com/communi...n-workstations
>
Parallels Workstation Extreme is very interesting, if you have the
specific HP Z800 workstation, SLI-nVidia and $400 for the program.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/