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Mogget128723
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Post subject: The Ultimate Solution?  Posted: February 22nd, 2011, 5:55 am |
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Joined: February 20th, 2011, 7:54 am
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Location: British Columbia, Canada
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I own a laptop that runs an ATI graphics chip and an Intel i5 processor. After a lengthy battle, I've become convinced there is no way to force my computer to use the graphics chip integrated into the processor, but I've come up with another solution that might solve all the problems.
Battlezone and Red Odyssey run fine on Windows XP, right?
I'm downloading a program called VMware that runs what is essentially a second computer inside the first, with whatever operating system you can procure. If you have a fast computer and a copy of some sub-vista version of Windows lying around, then this is looking like a viable solution for people who have an ATI card and no way to access their integrated chip. My copy of XP is out of the house right now, but I'll make another post here tomorrow when I have the test results.
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Sporkinator
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Post subject: Re: The Ultimate Solution? Posted: February 22nd, 2011, 7:36 am |
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If it were that easy, I think everybody would be playing BZ in a virtual machine running older versions of Windows. I've never used a virtual machine, but I'm sure hardware mode won't be playable in virtual Windows. The "Ultimate Solution" is Ken's 1.5 patch. Why run a virtual Windows XP when you can dual boot with "real" Windows XP? Good luck with your experiment anyhow. 
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psyko
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Post subject: Re: The Ultimate Solution? Posted: February 22nd, 2011, 8:23 am |
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Location: Behind your recycler
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Try post some screenshots if possible and yeah 1.5 is the boss homey. Wish i could run 1.4 hardware.
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Mr. Spock
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Post subject: Re: The Ultimate Solution? Posted: February 22nd, 2011, 10:54 am |
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Location: Zagreb, Croatia
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Yup, VMware allows SW mode only. I tried it while ago.
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Mogget128723
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Post subject: Re: The Ultimate Solution? Posted: February 22nd, 2011, 10:54 pm |
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Location: British Columbia, Canada
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Blast it, this one was looking so promising...
EDIT: Right, desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm dedicating 15 gigs of my hard drive to an XP partition so I can play The Red Odyssey.
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