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Any real experience running heavy games like AOE3, NFS Underground 2/MW, SimCity 4, City Life, etc. I don't expect run Crysis on a virtual machine but some old games. Is it possible run these kind of games smoothly and detailed on a virtual machine?

What VM softwre is recommended? Any hardware specification to achieve this goal?

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Related/Dupe superuser.com/questions/199664/… – Sathya♦ Oct 16 '10 at 23:38
Related, yes, dupe, I don't know. Do not hesitate to close the question if it is exact duplicate – bigown Oct 16 '10 at 23:48
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That's not a duplicate at all. This is about performance of games. The other is about Steam. – Christian Mann Oct 17 '10 at 4:56
@Diago: Where I can ask this? I asked about software and hardware. My question has not to do about games. Gaming.SE explicitly suggest to ask here. – bigown Oct 17 '10 at 15:42
@bigown. I stand corrected. I never saw your comment here. To answer your question, reprhase the question more specifically around the abilities of the graphics card provided in a virtual software, rather then being focussed on games, and this will happily be re-opened. The problem with leaving it in it's current state, any future gaming questions we close, will point to this one because we left it open. – Diago Jan 29 '11 at 11:10
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I wouldn't recommend running anything requiring 3D acceleration. If your CPU supports virtualization technology, you might be able to get some games to work, but no matter what, the virtualized OS isn't going to be able to use your graphics card to its full extent, thus most games (especially recent 3D games) will be choppy at best. This is based on my experience trying the exact same thing.

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VMWare Fusion 3.1 and Parallels 6 both claim to offer good support for 3D games in a virtualized environment on OS X, I'd assume that VMWare Workstation would offer similar levels of functionality on Windows and Linux.

From my experience the performance has been noticeably less than running on a native system but some games will still be playable.

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