Minor caveat, I live in the UK, and I can get a 250GB drive for £50 or so, but that's £50 that I don't have to throw at the system. Heck, it already needs a new Video card, and I'd like to put in a DVB-T card so I've got Mythtv as an option, so there's another £50, so to get the system where I'd ideally want it, I'd need over £300 so.. um yeah money I don't have. Might do after the move is finished and we're settled, but that's going to take a while.
I've not really considered the Vmware player route. I suppose it could work, but I guess I'll need to do some reading about how to get vmware player to actually install WinXP. I've got Cedega for DirectX, and as I don't play that many games anyhow, I don't need to keep up a transgaming subscription.What I've got works fine under Cedega... well, worked until my card blew out it's 3d core or something weird like that... It still displays fine and at my preferred resolution (1280x1024, any higher res hurts my eyes), but 3d doesn't work anymore. Weird that. -Richard On Wednesday 21 June 2006 22:04, Gary Thornock wrote: > --- Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, any better ideas or more interesting ideas? I'd also like to > > hear a few crazy ideas if you've got them. > > Short of picking up a new drive (you can get 250 GB for $100 at > Sam's Club these days), my suggestion would be to go with one of > the RAID arrangements you've listed, install Linux, and run your > Windows + PAF in VMWare within Linux. Given that you can get > either VMWare Player or VMWare Server for free, and it's fairly > easy to find or create a blank virtual machine where you can > install your Windows, that should take care of things well. > > There is one caveat, of course: as far as I know, VMWare still > doesn't support DirectX for gaming. Neither does any other > virtual machine system. But if you're really just using Windows > for PAF and maybe some school work, that shouldn't be an issue. > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
