DirectX and DirectShow supported at native speed?

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guyfox

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When running XP on a Mac Intel, is DirectX and DirectShow fully supported and native? Otherwise, XP games, multimedia aps and 3D aps will not run or will run too slowly for any acceptable use.
I haven't been able to find a definitive answer here, but sorry if I'm asking a redundant question.
 
guyfox said:
When running XP on a Mac Intel, is DirectX and DirectShow fully supported and native? Otherwise, XP games, multimedia aps and 3D aps will not run or will run too slowly for any acceptable use.
I haven't been able to find a definitive answer here, but sorry if I'm asking a redundant question.
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DirectX and DirectShow are supported at the maximum speed, available for non-accelerated emulated video card. Guest system does not "see" your real hardware, that is why performance of 3d-applications would not be "native".
 
So in other words, games could not be played or would suffer too great a performance hit? How does this impact playing media on the guest system? Are XP applications such as Nividia PureVideo decoder and FFDshow supported?
 
guyfox said:
So in other words, games could not be played or would suffer too great a performance hit? How does this impact playing media on the guest system? Are XP applications such as Nividia PureVideo decoder and FFDshow supported?
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In fact, this means that games that heavily rely on hardware graphics acceleration will be really slow (it's not a good idea to run Half-Life inside any VM, at least for now ;)
But, for a great number of applications hardware acceleration is not so vital - video playback, 3D-modeling, different kind of media apps will work just fine.
The generic recommendation is - try it and you will see whether or not VM can satisfy your needs. :)
 
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