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    Discussion in 'Archives' started by totbx, Jan 21, 2011.

    1. totbx

      totbx New Member

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      Has anyone attempted to run WoW in a VMWare instance? Had any luck with it?
       
      totbx, Jan 21, 2011
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      I did look into this, as far as I could find VMWare didn't have the 3d rendoring available to it to run games like Wow.
       
      HSBen, Jan 21, 2011
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      The latest version of VMWare workstation supports 3D, and wow will open and run inside the vm.
       
      hiddenlol, Jan 21, 2011
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      Virtualbox works fine as well.
       
      patryark, Jan 21, 2011
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      I used VMWare Workstation 7 and it worked fine. The graphics card I had in the machine was pretty terrible so it wasnt great, but it worked and HB had no issues with it.
       
      verbo, Jan 21, 2011
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      same here - i think you need VM Workstation 6.5 or newer to get a '3D' graphics driver to support running WoW.
       
      ordy, Jan 21, 2011
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      Nice. I've got 7.3. Gonna try this out tonight. Anyone have any tips to maximizing the number of instances running on a single box?
       
      totbx, Jan 21, 2011
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      7.3 - are you sure its Workstation? I believe they are only up to 7.1. Regardless, I run 3 OS instances, each with 1 proc and 640 MB RAM configured. I run a single 'low resource' WoW in each running on a stripped down Win XP. That takes about 25% of my PC's CPU and memory to keep up.
       
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      npittas, Jan 23, 2011
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      Whoop! It's 7.1.3. I've got it running in a guest OS now. Good stuff. :)
       
      totbx, Jan 23, 2011
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