Counterstrike on the Mac with VMware Fusion
As we’ve talked about on this blog from time to time, one of the things that we really focus on here on the Fusion team is high performance 3D acceleration for virtualized apps. VMware Fusion 2 leads the industry in support for DirectX 3D acceleration support, having shipped support for DirectX 9 Shader Model 2 back in April of 2008 with VMware Fusion 2 Beta 1.
One of our systems engineers here at VMware emailed me with this great video that his little brother threw together of Counterstrike Source running on his Mac with VMware Fusion.
Essentially, he’s running CS:S in a Windows XP SP3 VM, sporting 2GB of RAM, on his 2.8ghz MacBook Pro. Not sure what GPU it has, but guessing the NVIDIA GeForce 8600.
The results? It looks like he was getting around 30 frames per second even while running the screen capturing software. Without the screencap software running, he was logging frame rates of 48 fps.
Pretty awesome stuff! Here’s the video in question:
And here are some other fun videos of 3D games running in VMware Fusion 2
Just to clarify, the GPU in the new MacBook Pro is a nVidia 9600M GT!
Posted by: Oliver Clements | January 27, 2009 at 06:58 AM
How u get CS Source working ?
I'm having latest vmware fusion and get black screen when running CSS.. :(
Posted by: Bob Ershov | February 12, 2009 at 04:07 AM
Yes, I have the same issue, just a black screen.
Posted by: HesaPesa | June 06, 2009 at 06:13 AM
I wish there was a page dedicated to the settings.. i have a mac book pro, 2g ram, nvidia 8600 and the game lags sooo bad. Its not the internet connection, because it lags when playing locally against bots. I have all the settings on low, and tried to force it to use directx 8 and directx 9, both with the same issue. Resolution at 800.
Posted by: Anthony | July 06, 2009 at 03:03 PM