Windows XP on my IMac

re: Windows XP on my IMac

kadowd — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:20:25 GMT

I'm running Century of Flight on a VM under VMware Fusion on a second screen attached to a MacBookPro15".

Slight issue with video card recognition ( doesn't show anything under the "Settings->Display->Hardware" dialogue. Still working on that. But I was able to run in Full Screen mode ( 1600 x 1200 ) after manually editing my FS9.cfg file.

I'm never going to do BootCamp. Fusion works very well, thankyou.

I'll post "fix" to the lack of video hardware listing, if I can work that out.

re: Windows XP on my IMac

NickWhittome — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:35:09 GMT

That will not work, as that is a "Virtual Machine" type effort.

You need to use Bootcamp:

http://www.apple.com/bootcamp

re: Windows XP on my IMac

Mark — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:05:23 GMT

Installed emulator (parallels) and can't seem to get flight simulator to work. States graphics card incompatible, any thoughts?

re: Windows XP on my IMac

NickWhittome — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:20:21 GMT

Hi David,

The graphics performance is not as good as the X850XT I have in my main PC, but it aint bad at all. 25FPS with the standard scenery and aircraft with settings medium high.

It is not an emulator, this is Windows XP on a seperate partition. This is possible now because of the Intel Processor in the Imac. (Dual Core etc).

Flight Simulator on a Mac

Random Thoughts — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:47:29 GMT

Kudos to Nick Whittome, Flight Simulator MVP, for trying out Flight Simulator on a Mac under Windows XP and the newly released BootCamp. Hehe - no port needed :-) On a sidenote, I picked up a 2.16GHz, 2GB, 100MB/7200 rpm...

re: Windows XP on my IMac

David Voogd — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:06:42 GMT

Hmm... looks like some serious blurries going on there... lol

So are you running Windows XP on the Mac, or a windows emulator within MacOS and windows programs on that?

re: Windows XP on my IMac

denez — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:50:53 GMT

and with good performance ! Thanks a lot Nick !

re: Windows XP on my IMac

denez — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:57:28 GMT

oh yes, tell us what about fs on it !
But FSX sounds so like mac os X, no release for Tiger, i mean macintel version ?