On Jun 24, 10:37*am, John Smith wrote:
Andy wrote:
the OpenGL acceleration support in Parallels
generates 3D graphics performance that is noticeably faster and
smoother than Fusion.

What does this mean, is it standable or not? What hardware was used?

Standable? You mean tolerable? I think on any current Mac or MacBook
you can use SeeYou under VMware Fusion or Parallels. For 3D there is
no comparison Parallels is much faster. And had it running on a modern
13" MacBook (the aluminum one just prior to the current 13" MacBook
Pro). It seems very usable and smooth. However I won't be switching
any time soon for reasons (and biases) previously mentioned. And again
this issue is one of accelerating OpenGL graphics that SeeYou uses.
Fusion and Parallels will hardware accelerate some DirectX graphics,
only Parallels hardware accelerates some OpenGL graphics - enough to
make a significant difference for SeeYou 3D. SeeYou is one of the rare
Windows apps that uses OpenGL.

For me, the more impressive thing than either Fusion or Parallels was
how dramatically better the Wine support on Mac has gotten since I
last looked. Andy had a copy of CodeWeaver CrossOver on an modern iMac
and it seemed to run quite well except There is no 3D support at all.
You just get a message in SeeYou that 3D is not available. Personally
if I did not have lots of other uses for real Windows on a Mac I would
abandon all that complexity, and the need for a Windows license and
start with CodeWeaver CrossOver. (Yes a 180 degree turn from the
earlier post). But then I just don't use the 3D graphics in SeeYou
much at all. The other think you need to do in SeeYou is write data
out for PDAs or other devices. With the ability to write SD cards and
not need to use Microsoft ActiveSync things start to get interesting
as well for not needing a copy of Windows. I am not sure if Andy has
checked this out but I'd be pretty surprised if SeeYou running under
CrossOver has any problems writing out data files etc. to an SD card
(or at least to disk so you can just drag them over). BTW ActiveSync
is broken at the best of times, and does not run on CrossOver AFAIK,
but the good thing nowadays is you often can get away without it. But
you may need to find a real Windows PC to do things like software
updates on the PDA etc.


Darryl