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by TazeTSchnitzel 4494 days ago
>The same OSX graphics driver is used in both cases

Are you sure? I'd think it isn't passing function calls, but rather direct hardware access. I might be wrong.
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archagon 4494 days ago
Not 100% sure, but I was under the impression that unlike Windows (?), OSX simply does not allow you to have direct hardware access. (Plus, if Parallels was accessing the hardware directly, how would you be able to run the VM in a window while still doing OSX stuff underneath?)

Either way, there's clearly a way to make the game run significantly faster on OSX, but Valve isn't doing it for some reason.

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gizmo686 4494 days ago
I can't speak to OSX, but on linux I know that virtualbox likes to install kernel modules into the host. If your VM does that, then it should be able to get direct hardware access.
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TazeTSchnitzel 4492 days ago
VirtualBox on OS X uses an installer, instead of being a .app you can drag to your Applications folder, so I assume it does as much.
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lucian1900 4493 days ago
VM software will not ship with drivers for all potential GPUs.

They use the platform graphics APIs like any other app.

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