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A collection of VirtualPC speed tips
Authored by: balthisar on Jan 29, '04 03:37:24PM

I use both VPC6.1 as well as an older version of Microsoft's Remote Desktop (never thought to upgrade it, but it doesn't give me problems. I'm interested in the full-screen you all mentioned, though).

Of course Remote Desktop is faster -- you're running the real PC at full speed, and you see the screen image in near real time. I've never tried any type of FPS games, though, and don't expect it'd work very well. The only real problem I have is I remote into the real PC box using "faster" settings, and then they stick when I physically log into the real PC box. Oh well.

VPC is great for the PowerBook, which isn't always near the real PC to connect into it. Also, when the wife is on the real PC, and I need to use a PC-only program, it's good to be able to fire up the virtual PC.

As cheap as commodity PCs are these days, it's almost cheaper just to buy a PC box and remote into it.

Oh, I forgot to mention -- I also have Linux (Suse 8.2) installed on the PC. It's kind of nifty doing a remote X session on the Mac to the PC.

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--Jim (me)



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