[Ti] VPC for games

[Chris Rock]

Hmm wierd, are you running LW on VPC?? any reason why besides maybe plugins?

I run 7.5 on OS X and it is SPEEDY, though I am mainly Maya user and it 
too flies on my PB 17"

- Rock

John B. Crane wrote:

> On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 03:08  AM, Rick Banuelos wrote:
>
>> Would VPC6 run 3D accelerated games like EA sports games, etc?
>
>
> I'd not expect much from it. It may not even run. I don't know what 
> kind of hardware requirements these new games have, as in what kind of 
> video support they require, and what VPC emulates out of the box.
>
> One of the main reasons I'll buy VPC is to be able to run Win-only 
> translation software in the field. I can run LightWave on my BigAl and 
> it does pretty well as an on-site tool (when I'm in the office I use 
> my Intel workstations). The OpenGL performance on BigAl is respectable 
> for small-to-medium tasks, but chokes in the poly-count goes too high.
>
> All of this to say, it just depends: it may run, but in terms of 
> performance might be akin to getting that first "plop" out of a new 
> bottle of ketchup ;-).
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John B. Crane
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