SC4 and VMWare Player

[cody426]

Is anyone using VMWare player to run SC4?  I have the last few days and have had great results with smaller cities, but im worried larger ones may not perform so well.  One thing I have noticed is that laying trees on a new city tile is much faster, as is zooming in and out and moving around the tile.

If you have used this setup let me know what you think.  So far im pretty impressed. 

Physical Hardware
Core i-7 920
6GBs RAM
Nvidia GTX 580

Vmware Player Version 5.0.1 build-894247

Go NAM team! (couldn't help it)
-Cody

[Swordmaster]

What is VMWare?


Cheers
Willy

[cody426]

What is VMWare?

It allows you to virtually run an OS within an OS.  I use VMWare ESX and vSphere at my jobsites on servers so we can have one physical box that can run multiple virtualized server Operating Systems.  It is very efficient for that, but I never though it would run a game.

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

Whats nice about it, is its extremely easy to move virtual machines to new hardware and it allows me to run XP on my win 7 machine.  I actually run my XP installtion within the virtual machine off of a seperate SSD Drive.  If I want to move that to another PC I can hook up that drive, Instal VMWare player and im ready to go.  I can also move my simcity to my laptop quickly if im going to be out of town for a while and want to play.

-Cody

[Swordmaster]

That's very interesting, I'm going to bookmark this. Thanks for sharing.


Cheers
Willy

[wouanagaine]

That is one way of running old software that don't run anymore on newer OS or easy way to test new OS without loosing the current one
Or for people making software, it allows to test the software on multiple OS without the need to have one computer for each
But last time I checked VMWare had some problems with GPU rendering, not sure anymore

[FudouMyrrah]

You could try VirtualBox. It was made by Sun Microsystems, the creators of Java until they got bought by Oracle. It's free and is rather easy to use, easier than VMWare in my opinion.

http://virtualbox.org