DVA7338
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Joined on May 17 2009
"Thou shalt maintain thy airspeed."
Faridabad, Haryana India
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Posted onPost created on
May 07 2011 11:40 ET by Gurmeet Arora
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Hello Team,
It's been a while. I wonder if I can get some suggestions:
Objective : Run FS 2004 on Linux x64 and achieve acceptable performance (15+ fps). Installation successful with VMWare Player 3.1.4 hosting Windows XP / Windows 7 and FS runs, but performance not satisfactory.
Current bottlenecks : Not achieved more than 2-3 frames / sec.
Background :
Around 2 years back shifted to Linux Ubuntu completely [as the primary and only environment] after around 7-8 years of occasional use for server / development / testing use. Linux fits every known purpose and need (for me) including occasionally running MS Office applications though Crossover. FS is the only application left that needs Windows. Power supply and load shedding issues prevent from installing on a Desktop machine. Tried multiple ways and products for virtualizing Windows over Linux. VMWare player stood out to be the best light weight, no frills and a productive toolset. Issues is VMWare installs it's own driver. Don't know how to leverage graphics capabilities of installed card and frame rate achieved is very very low.
Infrastructure : HP DV6500 Laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 with 383 MB nVidia 8400M GS card.
2 GB installed DDR2 RAM, 5400 RPM Seagate HDD
Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 running 2.6.35-28-generic on x86_64 (can upgrade seamlessly to 2.6.37 mainline)
VMWare player 3.1.4 running the latest patches and add-ons.
Suggestions : Welcome
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