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Not even remotely, sad to say. by Two Sheds 03/07/2003, 12:59am PST
motherhead wrote:

This is actually a X86 emulator with actual Windows running on it. Though I doubt DirectX will be supported anytime soon.


Virtual PC isn't designed for game-playing -- there's no 3d hardware accel support whatsoever. It might be sufficient to run older stuff well enough, but newer games will look like slideshows or just refuse to run in software mode.

Version 2.0 of VPC had Glide support, just for Voodoo 2 cards. I had no luck getting the Quake 2 demo to run properly, and Glide support disappeared from the very next release anyhow. The biggest feature in today's version 6, besides OS X compatibility, is a fake-ass Start menu in the Dock. Just so you know where the developers' priorities lie -- running slapped-together in-house Visual Basic apps, Access and, for testing web designs, every non-Mac web browser extant.

My GTA3 solution was "buy a PS2."
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