PC games on Macbook Pro with Windows XP and Fusion

[BDuncan28]

I hope you can help. I have VMFusion installed on my mac. I use it to

run Windows XP. I wanted Windows so I could play PC games on my Macbook Pro.

I was able to do this until because of a hard drive failure I had to reinstall

everything. I can not for the life of me remember how I got the games to play.

I am having problems with the video part of the game. I only get a black

screen. I know I had to either download or change my settings to get them to

work but I can't remember what it was. I also can't remember who I contacted

that helped me the first time around. Can you help me please or point me in

the right direction?

I've been told that I need to install bootcamp but you can no longer download

that without upgrading to Leapord and I don't want to do that. Besides the

games played fine before the hardware failure. Whatever I did before worked

great. Just can't remember what it was

Thank-you

[admin]

Have you installed VMware Tools and enabled 3D acceleration?

What version of Fusion do you have? What games are you trying to run? What guest OS?

[BDuncan28]

Yes to the VMWare Tools and yes to enabling 3D acceleration

I am running version 1.0 on the Fusion (I've tried downloading and installing

the upgrade 1.1 but for some reason It would not install.

My OS is 10.4.11 and Windows XP Home

I am trying to run games like Broken Sword (the Sleeping Dragon) the Nancy Drew

Games for my daughter such as Crystal Skull also tried Next Life. All are

adventure games which ran on my system before the hard drive failure.

[admin]

1.0's pretty old, I would at least update to 1.1 if not 2.0 (later versions have better 3D support). A common reason you might not be able to install the update is if Fusion is still running.

[BDuncan28]

Thank-you for reminding me about upgrading my version of Fusion. It took me a minute but I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. I had to attempted to do it when I first reinstalled Fusion, had internet problems, and never did the upgrade. Thanks again for the support.

[stuarth20111014]

I'm using Fusion on an iMac, for testing websites. I tried runing several PC games on it without any really satisfactory results. Recently, I downloaded the FEAR 2 demo & it c r a w l e d on Fusion. On Bootcamp (not the Bootcamp partition created with Fusion) it is blistering!

You still can't beat Fusion for the dual system without reboot & file sharing/unity, but for PC games, you need a PC or dedicated Bootcamp install IMO.