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Re: Question [message #365903 is a reply to message #363315] Sat, 03 January 2009 22:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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on canyon near gdi tunnel entrance there is this grass near the tree that a tank can get stuck in when it touches it... fix that to its annoying
Re: Question [message #365908 is a reply to message #365832] Sun, 04 January 2009 00:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Caveman wrote on Sat, 03 January 2009 05:49

However true that may be... I dont really think playing Ren via VMware or any other emulating program is gonna be easy. I would suspect that it would lag real bad and make it really unplayable for the user.


Not if the VM is on the local machine and it's got vmware tools installed...the lag isn't that bad.
Re: Question [message #365915 is a reply to message #363315] Sun, 04 January 2009 02:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Afaik VMware doesn't allow direct access to the graphics card, so renegade wont even run.
Re: Question [message #365929 is a reply to message #365915] Sun, 04 January 2009 08:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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RoShamBo wrote on Sun, 04 January 2009 09:17

Afaik VMware doesn't allow direct access to the graphics card, so renegade wont even run.


Microsoft Virtual PC certainly doesn't, we tried an XP based VM to bypass the now (10 months later!) fixed Vista <--> XP network play in AOE III not working - AOE III wouldn't start, citing the graphics card as too poor. Maybe there's a better emulator that can do direct video card access, but I don't know.


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Re: Question [message #365941 is a reply to message #363315] Sun, 04 January 2009 10:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There's one called bochs, you could always try that. I think though because of the very nature of an emulator it would be very difficult to allow direct access to certain hardware. Mainly because I don't think 2 things can use it at the same time. So you'd have to somehow switch over execution on it to the virtual machine. I'm sure windows would take that great.

I don't really know, I just assume this is the case. I'm sure Saberhawk could clear this up.
Re: Question [message #365945 is a reply to message #363315] Sun, 04 January 2009 11:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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WMware does have an option to use Dx9.0c. Not sure how it performs, but it could work.

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_d3d_enabling_vm.html


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Re: Question [message #365962 is a reply to message #365941] Sun, 04 January 2009 13:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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RoShamBo wrote on Sun, 04 January 2009 11:52

There's one called bochs, you could always try that. I think though because of the very nature of an emulator it would be very difficult to allow direct access to certain hardware. Mainly because I don't think 2 things can use it at the same time. So you'd have to somehow switch over execution on it to the virtual machine. I'm sure windows would take that great.

I don't really know, I just assume this is the case. I'm sure Saberhawk could clear this up.


No idea. However, seeing as Renegade is CPU-heavy on "modern" machines, and most people are complaining about low FPS, a virtual machine would likely be too slow to be "playable".
Re: Question [message #365976 is a reply to message #365962] Sun, 04 January 2009 14:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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EvilWhiteDragon wrote on Sun, 04 January 2009 18:46

WMware does have an option to use Dx9.0c. Not sure how it performs, but it could work.

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_d3d_enabling_vm.html


I haven't use VMWare for a long time, that must be a fairly new feature.


Saberhawk wrote on Sun, 04 January 2009 20:10


No idea. However, seeing as Renegade is CPU-heavy on "modern" machines, and most people are complaining about low FPS, a virtual machine would likely be too slow to be "playable".


I don't know really, I find the virtual machine to be quite fast. On an up-to-date computer it might be playable.

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Re: Question [message #366317 is a reply to message #363315] Wed, 07 January 2009 11:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: Question [message #366451 is a reply to message #365929] Thu, 08 January 2009 03:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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CarrierII wrote on Sun, 04 January 2009 15:10

RoShamBo wrote on Sun, 04 January 2009 09:17

Afaik VMware doesn't allow direct access to the graphics card, so renegade wont even run.


Microsoft Virtual PC certainly doesn't, we tried an XP based VM to bypass the now (10 months later!) fixed Vista <--> XP network play in AOE III not working - AOE III wouldn't start, citing the graphics card as too poor. Maybe there's a better emulator that can do direct video card access, but I don't know.




That's because the video card it emulates is a really basic VGA type card. And why would an emulator then turn around and grant direct access to the hardware? That kind of defeats the purpose of an emulator in the first place.


However, I digress from the topic at hand... not that I can remember what that topic was meant to be since 'Question' is not very descriptive in the topic title.


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Re: Question [message #366530 is a reply to message #363315] Thu, 08 January 2009 14:57 Go to previous message
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Ummm maybe if u read the "question" that happened to be the very first post seeing how he made a topic for a question he had.
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