From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the enterprise
Date: 2000/09/28
Date: 2000-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8r0054$d3m$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8qt1cn$7hu1@news.cis.okstate.edu
In article <8qt1cn$7hu1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:17:25 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote:
> >everything Chris mentioned), while running under Windows. The
> >only significant piece I'm missing is gprof. And I seriously doubt
> >vmware can run Diablo II.
>
> Why? It's a general CPU virtualizer running a real copy of Windows on
> a partially simulated chip. It should run anything that Windows can.
See http://www.vmware.com/products/productfaq.html#games
One issue they *don't* mention is that most commercial games are written
as if they are going to be the only application running on the machine.
That means even if the emulation was great, you'd probably need loads
more memory and CPU to get the same performance. On my Win2k machine, I
had to upgrade to 256Meg of RAM to get rid of D2's disk swapping during
network games when loads of enemies are on the screen (just when you
*need* it to be running smoothly). The slowdowns were literally killing
me. It'd probably need loads more memory and a faster CPU if it also had
a second OS to deal with.
--
T.E.D.
(aka: Gonad the Barbarian, level 26, Normal)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-28 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-12 18:27 urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the enterprise DC
2000-09-13 0:00 ` bill
2000-09-12 0:00 ` DPH
2000-09-25 4:31 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-25 0:00 ` peter
2000-09-26 0:00 ` DPH
2000-09-26 20:55 ` Chris Miller
2000-09-26 0:00 ` nospam
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-27 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-10-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-27 0:00 ` nospam
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Michael S. Simpson
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Greg Gorman
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