DX10 through a VM?

[Glitch4583]

I did some looking through the forums and didn't find a direct answer for this, so hopefully somebody can enlighten me.

Been looking at making Ubuntu my main OS but I'm a gamer at heart with 2 8800GTXs running and a copy of Vista on the the way in order to make DX10 work. My question is, if I pop Vista into a VM runing on Ubuntu, such as parallels, would my DX10 still work within that or would I be safer just going for a duel-boot?

[Tyke91]

go for a dual boot. Virtual machines rarely ever handle 3D graphix

(sad isn't it? It wont even do starcraft... so i play with the wierd black battle.net screen on wine)

[cogadh]

Also bear in mind that a VM doubles the system requirements for running the OS. You would need enough RAM and processor to run Ubuntu and Vista as well as whatever DX10 game you were running.

[Citizin]

Your better off dual booting, never try gaming in a VM, it just dosn't work out right.

[Glitch4583]

Good to know :) Thanks for the quick answers. Well, I was gonna have 64-Bit Vista running on 4GB but it looks like I should stick with duel-boot.

[Citizin]

Yeah 64 Bit Vista in a VM would run, but don't try gaming on it, and dare not turn Aero Effects on :)