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rich82fox
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May 18, 2006, 05:54 AM
 
hi


I have a G4 (agp) powermac with a ati rage 16mb agp card

I am using virtual pc 6 with windows xp and under device manager - it lists an S3 Trio garphics controller

is there any way to get virtual pc to recognise my ati card?

rich
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8GZ, 2GB RAM, 150 & 300 GB Internal Hard Drives, AGP Geoforce 5200 64MB Graphics Card, Superdrive.
     
Maflynn
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May 18, 2006, 06:15 AM
 
No, since VPC runs under OSX it cannot access the hardware directly. That also means implications with direct-x (doesn't work).

This has been one of the long running complaints about VPC and if you need to do any serious work with a PC it was always recommended that you buy a cheap PC, now of course with bootcamp and the mactels that argument is thrown out the window (pun intended)
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