[macvoiceover] Re: Having trouble making the switch from windows
- From: Tyler wood <tcwood12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:23:16 -0500
Hey there
Under the virtual machine menu, go to network, then I think network mode and
select the bridged option. The default is nat.
hth
On 2011-03-30, at 5:30 PM, James Dean wrote:
> Where do I go to set it to "bridged mode?"
>
> Fix the sound delay by doing the following:
>
> 1. Go to users/yourname/documents/virtual machines/VMName.vmwarevm. Note: you
> may have to interact with the file browser for this next step depending on
> the view you have set.
>
> 2. Press VO+shift+M and navigate to "show package contents." A new window
> opens.
>
> Find the .vmx file associated with the virtual machine.
>
> 3, Open the file in Text edit and add the following line exactly as shown to
> the very bottom and save.
>
> pciSound.PlayBuffer = "14"
>
> James A. Dean
>
>
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Tyler wood wrote:
>
>> I beg to differ on the top speed thing.
>>
>> I've hosted it just fine. Set fusion to "bridged" mode, and windows will get
>> an IP from your router independant of the mac...
>>
>> And also, though I forget how I did it, I made the sound delay pretty much
>> go away in fusion. (anyone else know how to do this for future reference)?
>> So I can play top speed perfectly.
>> On 2011-03-30, at 10:09 AM, James Dean wrote:
>>
>>> I use VMWare Fusion, because I too cannot totally convert to Mac. Most
>>> notably when solving captious or mudding because one of the muds I play has
>>> a sound pack, and the sound pack is written specifically for a windows
>>> client. Fusion lets you run windows directly alongside OSX and it is just
>>> like you have a little windows machine hanging around. I have a podcast
>>> that details how to set up an XP Virtual machine and using a hotkey utility
>>> called "SharpKeys." The podcast is located at www.blindcooltech.com.
>>>
>>> I have a bootcamp option as well, although i only use that to run a
>>> topspeed server. You cannot use VMWare fusion to do this because the
>>> virtual machine uses a bridge of sorts to connect to the internet, which
>>> has the annoyance of not letting windows have a proper internal router IP,
>>> even though OSX does, such as 192.168.1.4, which of course means that port
>>> forwarding is impossible, because it will forward the port to OSX. If it
>>> weren't for this, I'd rather make my bootcamp partition go away. Oh, one
>>> more thing, there is a nintendo 64 emulator, called project 64 that I can't
>>> get to work with the Virtual Machine. I get a graphics driver error and the
>>> program won't work. It runs fine on Bootcamp though. There are things I use
>>> on Mac that I will never go back to using on Windows, such as Adium in
>>> place of Miranda-IM, and Mail in place of Outlook/Outlook express, because,
>>> well, Mac Mail is just that simple and to use anything else is just a shame!
>>>
>>> James A. Dean
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Kimberly wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I got my Macbook a few weeks ago and, though I've been a computer user
>>>> for many years, I'm having a lot of trouble making the switch from
>>>> windows to mac. I think it's mostly the arrangement of the elements on
>>>> the screen -- what is where and how to get from one place to another
>>>> so I can do the things I want to do. Truthfully, it's been pretty
>>>> frustrating and I find myself returning to the windows environment
>>>> more often than I'd like.
>>>>
>>>> I've read through the online VO guide and I have David Pogue's book
>>>> (recommended by someone on this list). I've even thought about going
>>>> for the one on one training offered at my apple store, though I don't
>>>> know how helpful this would be given the lack of knowledge they
>>>> exhibited with regard to VO.
>>>>
>>>> So my question, can you recommend some other resources (articles,
>>>> podcasts, online tutorials) that might make my transition smoother?
>>>>
>>>> Any help is much appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
>>>>
>>>> Kim
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