Help - VMWare Fusion, Macbook Pro, Vista, Graphics Cards & Games

Help, please ... We just purchased a new MacBook Pro with an NVida 8600M graphics card. The operating system is up-to-date.
I installed the latest version ov VMWare Fusion. Then installed Windows Vista Basic, and it is up-to-date with Service Patch 1. All the basic Vista services appear to work as it would on a PC.
Next, I installed the game Sims 2. When I try to run the game, I get an error message that says:
"... did not detect a hardware capable of running DirectX 9.0 ..."
I checked NVida and the 8600M is capable of running DirectX 10.0.
Does anyone have any idea on how I can get this game to work????
Thanks

VMware is software emulation and at this point cannot use your graphics card. You need to install Vista using bootcamp and run it through there to have access to the graphics card. remember to install the boot camp files and all drivers after you install Vista

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