mavyalex Posted December 25, 2010 Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) Hello, Would DCS A-10 work in a virtual environment? Edited December 25, 2010 by mavyalex "Always check your 6 o'clock if you want to live!"
Coolhnd1 Posted December 25, 2010 Posted December 25, 2010 Expect it to be very slow. I've run Win XP 32bit in a virtual environment under Win XP 64bit because I needed to run a few things for work that wouldn't run under 64 bit and I can tell you it was dog slow. Expect DCS to be virtually unplayable under virtual PC. -- Gary McLean -- CoolHand
Nate--IRL-- Posted December 25, 2010 Posted December 25, 2010 It is very unlikely to work in a VM. As for a 64bit VM in a 32bit OS I'm not sure that is possible. IMO you should just partition and install Win7 64 in its own Partition. Nate Ka-50 AutoPilot/stabilisation system description and operation by IvanK- Essential Reading
KillaALF Posted December 25, 2010 Posted December 25, 2010 I'm pretty sure that it is not possible to run W7 in a virtual environment on XP. It works the other way around, but even then you have no 3D acceleration on your virtual XP = not meant for gaming. Why would you even do that, I wonder? When I installed W7/64 back in April, I set up a dual-boot configuration and to be honest I booted up XP about 5 times since then.
AlphaOneSix Posted December 25, 2010 Posted December 25, 2010 If I remember correctly (not a guarantee) DCS A-10 is unplayable in a virtual OS. Trying to run it in a virtual OS will result in an error message that you can't play it in a virtual OS.
mavyalex Posted December 25, 2010 Author Posted December 25, 2010 By the way: why is Beta 4 much slower to load than Beta 3? Even when going to the Options menu I have to wait so long, whereas before it used to pop up almost immediately? I know I run Windows XP, but still with Beta it ran fine...I justa made a clean reinstall of Beta 4 from scratch. "Always check your 6 o'clock if you want to live!"
Purg Posted December 25, 2010 Posted December 25, 2010 3D graphics has improved but is still reasonably limited in a virtual environment. If you did get it to run, I'd expect it to be a slideshow.
Kula66 Posted December 25, 2010 Posted December 25, 2010 I'm pretty sure that it is not possible to run W7 in a virtual environment on XP. It works the other way around, but even then you have no 3D acceleration on your virtual XP = not meant for gaming. Why would you even do that, I wonder? When I installed W7/64 back in April, I set up a dual-boot configuration and to be honest I booted up XP about 5 times since then. Perfectly possible - do it all the time on VMWare. However, graphics speed is not a strong point!
Rhinox Posted December 28, 2010 Posted December 28, 2010 (edited) Hello,Would DCS A-10 work in a virtual environment? Quick answer: no, and yes! I suppose, with DCS:A10C it is the same, as with LO:FC 2.x: ED tried silently to prevent it, without even single notice anywhere about LO:FC 2.x not being allowed to run on virtual machines (and I have to emphasize this!), but there are "certain ways" how you could circumvent this. And at least in case of LO:FC 2.x, I can say now, it was not very difficult... Without going deep into detail, check my topic concerning LO:FC 2.x running on virtual machines (which forum moderators were so kind to close & lock before I could eventually reveal too much :-) ): http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=56356 Edited December 28, 2010 by Rhinox
Gadroc Posted December 28, 2010 Posted December 28, 2010 It will run under Parallels on an iMac, although as has been noted I wouldn't actually want to fly it this way as FPS and graphics suck. It is fine for testing I was doing with LUA export scripts.
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