Windows Vista games?

[enigma789]

Is it possible to play 3D games with Windows Vista?

No luck so far. I thought maybe I am not doing something right.

[MandarMS]

Please check the minimum system requirements for games which you are trying to play in Windows Vista Virtual machine, currently VMware Fusion Supports DirectX 9.0 without "shaders" not (9.0c, etc)

[admin]

You need to be more specific, e.g. what games.

If you have 3D acceleration enabled in the virtual machine's Settings, Fusion 1.1 should support DirectX 9.0 (not 9.0a, 9.0c, etc.) without shaders.

[enigma789]

Well so far I've tried Call of Duty, which didn't run and came up with something about OpenGL being incompatible. I've attached the system requirements at the bottom of this post.

I also tried Counter-Strike 1.6 which I did get to load (albeit on software mode) but the graphics were extremely poor and the mouse was, essentially, not working.

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• 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX 9.0b
  compatible 32MB hardware T&L-capable video card and latest drivers*

• English version of Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

• Pentium III 600MHz or Athlon 600MHz processor or higher for systems with Windows 98/ME

• Pentium III 700MHz or Athlon 700MHz processor or higher for systems with Windows 2000/XP

• 128MB RAM

• 8x speed CD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers

• 1.4GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows 98/ME swap file, 600MB for Windows 2000/XP swap file)

• 100% DirectX 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers

• 100% Windows 98/ME/2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers

• DirectX 9.0b (included)

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[Mr_Flibble1 · Accepted solution]

In General, FPS style games don't work well inside a VM. VMWare was not really designed with that in mind. Most FPS games require special hardware - the video card - in order to run nowdays. The VMware driver is not really designed for this purpose.

An FPS game is a scenario were I would say it is much better to run on dedicated hardware.

[admin]

Fusion currently does not support OpenGL acceleration. The system requirements you posted list 9.0b, which is more than the plain 9.0 that Fusion currently supports.

[enigma789]

Hmm, that's a shame. I was hoping with the latest VMware improvements this would be possible. I guess it's back to Boot Camp for me.

[Mr_Flibble1]

Yeah, that is really the best option sadly. There is always going to be an overhead for games that you don't want in a VM environment. I can see it getting to a point where it will work, however, the framerate will always be better in the native environment.

I can see this being made to work, but I doubt it would be cost effective for VMware to do this on their part.