![]() ![]() As you can see from the overview screen shot, the graphics provide an amazing experience.įigure 12: Civilization IV: Colonization, Overview of game running on PC It's essentially a modern re-make (Firaxis calls it a re-imagining) of the classic Colonization game Sid Meier created in 1994, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a conversion of the Civilization IV engine into a game experience in which players lead a European nation on their quest to colonize and thrive in the "New World." Players are challenged to guide their people from the oppressive motherland, discover a New World, negotiate, trade and fight as they acquire great power and battle for their freedom and independence. Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the Civilization IV series. This is a relatively new game built on the well-established Civilization IV engine. There are very few games that fit all of these parameters, but we were able to find two. And, you'd want to test a game that isn't available on the Mac (otherwise, why wouldn't you just run it there?) And, of course, you want to test games that people are eager to play. After all, you'd want to look at games that run on both platforms (even though both virtualization products support slightly different graphics capabilities). One of the most frequent questions that we were asked after our last virtualization benchmarks was "What about games?" Choosing games to test in virtualized environments is extremely difficult. Given the 720p results, we didn't bother attempting them under Vista. They played well under both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion running XP. The 1080p videos also came from the above Microsoft site. Play Windows Video High Definition, 1080p VMware Fusion stuttered on the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and iMac, but was able to play it fine on the Mac Pro. Parallels Desktop was unable to play it at all. To test HD Video, we used the movies on Microsoft's web site at We found that 720p movies played quickly and smoothly in both environments under XP.įor Vista, however, it was entirely differently. This is not the case for the virtualization products mentioned here, where it works fine. ![]() Specifically, "You may notice that the built-in NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics subsystem does not appear in the Device Manager and cannot be used with Microsoft Windows XP or Vista." (See ). ![]() One thing to note about the differences between BootCamp and virtualization products: According to Apple's tech note, when it comes to the new MacBook Pros with multiple graphics processors, there are issues with graphics support when running Apple's BootCamp. Second, the common metric, frames per second, is a poor method for measuring this. First, in some cases, the performance on both platforms was so good there was nothing that we could measure. When we first started out to test 3D and HD Graphics, we were looking for ways to measure in a benchmark setting. VMware Fusion (cont.) How do VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop for Mac stack up?īy Neil Ticktin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher 3D and HD Graphics Tests VMware FusionĬolumn Tag: Virtualization Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. Educational Institution and Student Discounts.
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