Thread: Modern Warfare 2 on VMWare Fusion 3

Quote: Originally Posted by Zortrium Bashing the 3D capabilities of VMware and Parallels is in vogue right now, but while it's true that MW2 wouldn't run acceptably, saying that their 3D capabilities are worthless is overblown. Half-Life 2 is perfectly playable in Fusion 3 on my iMac at close to maxed settings. It has always been the way. As someone who runs both Bootcamp and Parallels, no. The 3D capabilities are quite worthless....

OK. I have COD4 Mac version and it runs fine on my Mac. What I am gathering from most of these responses is to run MW2 from Boot Camp and use my higher video settings. I have the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT card. I am hearing not to bother with running MW2 in VMWare Fusion 3. Am I right?

Quote: Originally Posted by raggedjimmi (when its out). that would be 2 days before the day after tomorrow

Quote: Originally Posted by SteinMaster Anyone installed and ran Modern Warfare 2 on VMWare Fusion 3? I just installed the new VMWare version and wanted to know how Modern Warfare 2 runs before I purchase the PC version of the game. VMWare Fusion 3 is supposed to improve PC gaming. I have a MBP UB late 2008. 2,53ghz; 4gb ram; stock graphics card. I am running Windows XP as my guest OS. Thanks There is no chance in hell that it would run at...

I was wondering whether this would run using BootCamp with Windows XP (same hardware, I think. 15 -inch Macbook pro 2.53 GHz, 4GB RAM, 9400M only). I looked at the system requirements, and the hardware setup does pass the minimum specs (or, so I think). And since BootCamp is a straight-up dual boot, wouldn't it work better? Has anyone actually tried running this on a Macbook pro with this config?

Of course it would run better in Boot Camp. But you still have toy hardware on those notebook computers that is nowhere near the requirements of current games. The smart thing is to stop playing hardware-catch up with the game industry and buy an Xbox 360 or a PS3 instead. You're guaranteed to enjoy Modern Warfare 2 on an Xbox 360. And you are also guaranteed to have an extremely lousy experience on -any- notebook with that game. It...

Quote: Originally Posted by Winni Of course it would run better in Boot Camp. But you still have toy hardware on those notebook computers that is nowhere near the requirements of current games. The smart thing is to stop playing hardware-catch up with the game industry and buy an Xbox 360 or a PS3 instead. You're guaranteed to enjoy Modern Warfare 2 on an Xbox 360. And you are also guaranteed to have an extremely lousy experience on...

Upgrade your graphics card and it'll work fine.

Ignore my other skepticism... Out of curiousity I booted my Win 7 partition in Parallels 5. Ran Dragon age on very low settings and low res and whilst it was still choppy - it was playable (just). I was more surprised that it even worked at all to be honest. Virtualization has come a long way. Whether MW2 will even work we just don't know yet, but I'd suggest really going bootcamp if you want to play it properly at all.

Quote: Originally Posted by Winni The smart thing is to stop playing hardware-catch up with the game industry and buy an Xbox 360 or a PS3 instead. You're guaranteed to enjoy Modern Warfare 2 on an Xbox 360. And you are also guaranteed to have an extremely lousy experience on -any- notebook with that game. It might not even be fun to play on a standard Mac Pro. Garbage. Stuff the hobbled console version, your machine will be ok with MW2,...