Re: Cannot play Counter Strike

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Virtual PC doesn't emulate a graphics card and doesn't use the Mac's
in-built one. This mean you can NOT play any games on Virtual PC that
need a graphics card.
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I suspect this was a typo, but that's not entirely correct. Virtual PC
DOES emulate a video card... a S3 Trio 32/64 video card, which does not
have 3d hardware support.

To be fair, this isn't JUST a Microsoft issue. Virtual PC has never had
*direct* 3d hardware support. VPC 2 and 3 had support for 3dFX video
passthrough cards, but Voodoo is long dead, and as far as I know, no
one makes standalone 3d accelerator boards any more.

And yes, labelling would be nice, but having worked retail, people
would still buy it and wonder why it didn't work.

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