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Using Games with Virtual PC Virtual PC contains a number of enhancements for playing PC games on your Mac, including DirectX game enhancement, and the ability to use 3Dfx graphics accelerator cards and joysticks. NOTE: All the Virtual PC drive images with Windows 95 and 98 contain the original 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics drivers pre-installed. If you have a Voodoo2 card, you must install the drivers; see instructions below. DirectX game enhancements Microsoft's DirectX technology is used in many popular Windows games. Virtual PC includes a custom video driver to improve performance in DirectX games. A fast PowerPC processor is required for DirectX games (G3 recommended.) 3Dfx graphics accelerator cards Virtual PC directly accesses 3D graphics accelerator cards that are based on the 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics or Voodoo2 chip set, such as TechWorks’ Power 3D card or Voodoo2 Game Wizard from Micro Conversions. The card must handle 3D graphics only; it cannot be a combined 2D/3D hardware card. You must have a Power PC-based Mac with PCI slots to use these cards. NOTE: If you install Windows 95 on a new drive image. you need to install the 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics or Voodoo2 drivers from the Extras drive image located on the Virtual PC CD-ROM. If you install Windows 98 on a new drive image, you need to install the Voodoo2 drivers from the Extras drive image located on the Virtual PC CD-ROM. If you install the Voodoo Graphics card, you do not need to install the drivers separately; Windows 98 detects the hardware and installs the correct drivers from the Windows 98 CD-ROM. Using Games with Virtual PC 1 Installing Voodoo2 drivers for Windows If you are using a Voodoo2 card (the second generation), you must install the drivers. NOTE: there are two versions of Voodoo cards currently in general use, Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2. You cannot use both a Voodoo Graphics and a Voodoo2 card at the same time. If you install a Voodoo2 card, you must remove the original Voodoo Graphics card. To install the Voodoo2 drivers, first install the card, then do the following: 1. Launch Virtual PC while holding down the Option key (this brings up the Preferences dialog box). 2. In the Preferences, select Extras 95 or Extras 98 as the D drive. 3. Press the Restart button in the VPC Preferences. Windows automatically detects the new hardware (PCI Multimedia Device). A dialog box appears, asking What do you want Windows to do? 4. Click the radio button Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended) and click Next. The dialog box prompts that Windows search for new drivers in its driver database. 5. Check the Specify a location check box. 6. Change the drive location by typing the following in the box: D:\Voodoo2 7. Click the Browse button. The dialog …