[Audiogames-reflector] Tips for gaming on a Mac in VM Ware Fusion
Tips for gaming on a Mac in VM Ware Fusion Introduction:This article is written to give some tips on how to make gaming on a virtual Windows pc the best experience ever. Some people say you can't play Windows games effectively on a virtual machine on a Mac, but I tell you this is not true. There are a few games where the virtual machine doesn't react fast enough, but I have played most audio games with success on a virtual machine, and I would like to share my experiences on how to do that.I assume you have installed a working Windows on a virtual machine on your Mac running Fusion and you know how to start and stop your virtual machine. I'll not go into details on how to do that, but might mention you need to do that to access some important settings in Fusion.If you have any comments, any tips, any problems by doing some of the stuff I'm mentioning in the article, any typos, any grammatical stuff you want to have changed or anything else to say, then feel free to drop me a mail by clicking the mail link in this post or in my profile to get in touch with me. Please don't send me private messages using the forum. I always forget to check those, and the forum doesn't alert by a mail or any message when you get a new private message.Well, let's get started. Enjoy a pretty long article:Switching between Fusion and the other programs on your Mac:Yeah, you already know how to do this I know, but I'll mention this anyway, because there is something which might have pissed you off for a while which I'll try to explain:As you properly know, command tab switches between your open programs or applications. However, when switching from an application to Fusion and your virtual machine, you might experience some weird lag. This is normal. Don't panic and don't press any button for at leased 3 seconds or so, because that'll make the lag even more worse. Instead, just wait 3 seconds, and it should react normal again.In a virtual machine, the alt key is the option key, which means you have to press option tab to do alt tab. This might take some time to get used to, when command tab switches between the applications on your Mac, and option tab switches between the opened windows on your virtual machine. You already properly know that if you've installed your Windows, but just mentioning for others who don't know this.I'll always recommend you to turn off Voiceover when using a virtual machine. Please note that the command key is your Windows key in Fusion, so what happens when you do command f5 to turn off Voiceover? Voiceover will be turned off on your Mac, and you'll open up the start menu in Windows, and get the focus away for whatever running game you might have in focus. So, for that reason, I sometimes first turn off Voiceover, and then switches to Fusion by pressing command tab to avoid this. However, that requires you fully understand how command tab works on the Mac, which I'll describe very shortly with an example.In Mac OSX, you can easily arrange in what order your applications are in. That means if you have iTunes, VLC player or whatever media player running in the background, you can kind of put this away, if safari and Fusion only is what you need to work with for now.So, to rearrange your apps you can do the following:1: Hold down the command key and press the tab key to safari, and then release the keys.2: Hold down the command key again, and press the tab key to Fusion, and then release the keys.Now, when you quickly press command tab, you'll only switch between Safari and Fusion. Really handy trick if you wanna work with safari on your Mac, while doing other stuff on your virtual machine. this is also very handy if you wanna stop Voiceover before switching to Fusion. In this way, you know you'll switch to Fusion when pressing command tab, instead of switching to whatever other random application.Full screen mode:It's always a good idea to run games and your virtual machine in general in full screen. Please note full screen reacts differently on different computers. If the machine doesn't run in full screen, you might experience focusing issues.For some reason, the full screen mode suddenly change how it reacts on my computer. That means when I switch back to Fusion after having worked with other programs on my Mac, my focus is not on the virtual machine but in the list of virtual machines. Then I choose single view instead. Others are experiencing that differently, so you might have to play around with this a bit. Then, suddenly, my Fusion reacts differently, and then I switch back to the full screen view again.You can choose between the different views by going to the menubar (VO m,) open up the view menu and either choose single window or full screen. There are other ways to do that as well, but mentioning all those ways might just end up in confusion. If you can't press VO m to open up the menubar in Fusion, you can press ctrl f2 or ctrl FN f2 instead, depending on your keyboard settings on your
[Audiogames-reflector] Tips for gaming on a Mac in VM Ware Fusion
Tips for gaming on a Mac in VM Ware Fusion Introduction:This article is written to give some tips on how to make gaming on a virtual Windows pc the best experience ever. Some people say you can't play Windows games effectively on a virtual machine on a Mac, but I tell you this is not true. There are a few games where the virtual machine doesn't react fast enough, but I have played most audio games with success on a virtual machine, and I would like to share my experiences on how to do that.I assume you have installed a working Windows on a virtual machine on your Mac running Fusion and you know how to start and stop your virtual machine. I'll not go into details on how to do that, but might mention you need to do that to access some important settings in Fusion.If you have any comments, any tips, any problems by doing some of the stuff I'm mentioning in the article, any typos, any grammatical stuff you want to have changed or anything else to say, then feel free to drop me a mail by clicking the mail link in this post or in my profile to get in touch with me. Please don't send me private messages using the forum. I always forget to check those, and the forum doesn't alert by a mail or any message when you get a new private message.Well, let's get started. Enjoy a pretty long article:Switching between Fusion and the other programs on your Mac:Yeah, you already know how to do this I know, but I'll mention this anyway, because there is something which might have pissed you off for a while which I'll try to explain:As you properly know, command tab switches between your open programs or applications. However, when switching from an application to Fusion and your virtual machine, you might experience some weird lag. This is normal. Don't panic and don't press any button for at leased 3 seconds or so, because that'll make the lag even more worse. Instead, just wait 3 seconds, and it should react normal again.In a virtual machine, the alt key is the option key, which means you have to press option tab to do alt tab. This might take some time to get used to, when command tab switches between the applications on your Mac, and option tab switches between the opened windows on your virtual machine. You already properly know that if you've installed your Windows, but just mentioning for others who don't know this.I'll always recommend you to turn off Voiceover when using a virtual machine. Please note that the command key is your Windows key in Fusion, so what happens when you do command f5 to turn off Voiceover? Voiceover will be turned off on your Mac, and you'll open up the start menu in Windows, and get the focus away for whatever running game you might have in focus. So, for that reason, I sometimes first turn off Voiceover, and then switches to Fusion by pressing command tab to avoid this. However, that requires you fully understand how command tab works on the Mac, which I'll describe very shortly with an example.In Mac OSX, you can easily arrange in what order your applications are in. That means if you have iTunes, VLC player or whatever media player running in the background, you can kind of put this away, if safari and Fusion only is what you need to work with for now.So, to rearrange your apps you can do the following:1: Hold down the command key and press the tab key to safari, and then release the keys.2: Hold down the command key again, and press the tab key to Fusion, and then release the keys.Now, when you quickly press command tab, you'll only switch between Safari and Fusion. Really handy trick if you wanna work with safari on your Mac, while doing other stuff on your virtual machine. this is also very handy if you wanna stop Voiceover before switching to Fusion. In this way, you know you'll switch to Fusion when pressing command tab, instead of switching to whatever other random application.Full screen mode:It's always a good idea to run games and your virtual machine in general in full screen. Please note full screen reacts differently on different computers. If the machine doesn't run in full screen, you might experience focusing issues.For some reason, the full screen mode suddenly change how it reacts on my computer. That means when I switch back to Fusion after having worked with other programs on my Mac, my focus is not on the virtual machine but in the list of virtual machines. Then I choose single view instead. Others are experiencing that differently, so you might have to play around with this a bit. Then, suddenly, my Fusion reacts differently, and then I switch back to the full screen view again.You can choose between the different views by going to the menubar (VO m,) open up the view menu and either choose single window or full screen. There are other ways to do that as well, but mentioning all those ways might just end up in confusion. If you can't press VO m to open up the menubar in Fusion, you can press ctrl f2 or ctrl FN f2 instead, depending on your keyboard settings on your
