VMware Fusion for Windows XP

Hello MacBook Community,
I recently bought a MacBook Pro (the one for $1199 with I think the 250G harddrive) after being a PC all of my life. I just finished my senior year of high school, so I will be going to college and find more uses for the MacBook once I get there, but in the meantime I want to play games. Yes, I know that is a problem and that is why I asked around and found out that I could use windows on the boot camp. I partitioned my MacBook for 36G of windows XP and took all of the necessary steps. When I tried installing the first game, everything went well, but when I tried actually playing it, it said that my 3d hardware was insufficient and that my directX wasn't good enough. I gave up with that game and installed another and got it installed and loaded it up and when it got to the load screen it force closed with no explanation.
Someone suggested that I try the VMware Fusion for WIndows XP, so I installed it and got better general XP results, but got the exact same results for the games. I downloaded the latest Direct3d and installed it and still nothing.
What do you think is the problem?
What do you suggest that I do?
How can I fix this?
Much thanks.

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The premium price of an eight-core or 12-core is so large that you could buy another complete Mac Pro for the same price, and use them separately or as a compute-farm.
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