twillis
Nov 13, 2008, 08:22 PM
I have been running Phoenix for a while under Boot Camp with no problems, but it sucks having to reboot to fly. I had been looking around to see if I could find some reports on how it did under VM software (VMWare and Parallels), but haven't had much luck getting decent reports. I did see a post that someone was running under Fusion with graphics glitches. In any case, nothing resounding that would make me take the time to try it out.
When Parallels 4 was released, I figured I would give it a try.
Turns out, it works great. I am getting 50-60 FPS according to the simulator info display in Phoenix. I occasionally get a little stutter, but it is not enough to be annoying. I don't feel much difference between running in the VM versus running natively.
I am running Phoenix 2.0.0.q on a 2.2GHz MacBook Pro (C2Duo from a year or two ago) with 2GB of memory. The VM is running Vista off of my Boot Camp partition. I had to turn the graphics settings all the way down but am running at native resolution (1440x900)---the performance does suck at the "everything at high" settings that run great natively. In any case, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the graphics even at "low" settings.
tw
When Parallels 4 was released, I figured I would give it a try.
Turns out, it works great. I am getting 50-60 FPS according to the simulator info display in Phoenix. I occasionally get a little stutter, but it is not enough to be annoying. I don't feel much difference between running in the VM versus running natively.
I am running Phoenix 2.0.0.q on a 2.2GHz MacBook Pro (C2Duo from a year or two ago) with 2GB of memory. The VM is running Vista off of my Boot Camp partition. I had to turn the graphics settings all the way down but am running at native resolution (1440x900)---the performance does suck at the "everything at high" settings that run great natively. In any case, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the graphics even at "low" settings.
tw