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Deciphering Video Requirements for Games under Parallels
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rockville, MD
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How do I figure out if my iMac can run certain PC games? I know it has a Radeon X1600 card in it, but what does that mean if a InVidia card is the minimum requirement?
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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It won't run on Parallels. Parallels does not do virtualization of the hardware accelerator for graphics. It has a simple VGA accelerator so anything asking for DirectX, OpenGL, or specific graphics hardware will simply not work. You have to run BootCamp to let Windows get access to the hardware for games.
Radeon is ATI. GeForce is NVidia, btw.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Originally Posted by alex_kac 
It won't run on Parallels. Parallels does not do virtualization of the hardware accelerator for graphics. It has a simple VGA accelerator so anything asking for DirectX, OpenGL, or specific graphics hardware will simply not work. You have to run BootCamp to let Windows get access to the hardware for games.
Oh, good! I have BootCamp already installed. Why didn't I think of that?
Radeon is ATI. GeForce is NVidia, btw.
I know. What I don't know how to do is to compare that apple to that orange. In other words, if the requirements say GeForce is required, does the Radeon fulfill that requirement or fall short of it?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Generally, it depends on which GeForce card.
But in your case, the X1600 will run any game that's out there today because it supports/implements DirectX 9.0c and SM 3.0.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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You have a game that doesn't list a minimum ATI requirement? They must have been paid by Nvidia.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
You have a game that doesn't list a minimum ATI requirement? They must have been paid by Nvidia.
Scout's honor. See for yourself.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2006
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See where it says:
ATI Graphic Driver
Microsoft DirectX
Nvidia Graphic Driver
the website is misleading in it's system requirements, but clearly an ATi card should work fine.
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