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Anyone able to get direct 3d acceleration working in virtualbox in winxp guest?

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First post, by Xenphor

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I'm trying to play some old games like Motocross Madness, Midtown Madness, Need for Speed, etc. in Virtual Box in a winxp guest but have only been able to get software rendering. I installed the Virtual Box guest additions under safe mode to enable 3d acceleration but no game I've tried so far has detected it. Oddly enough, I can run nglide and get acceleration that way with glide based games like Unreal so I think it's working maybe? Has anyone gotten this working?

I also tried using Dgvoodoo2 to perhaps get something working with direct3d but games still didn't detect anything.

Reply 1 of 5, by Zup

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Did you install virtual extensiones in fail safe mode (and enabling 3D support)?

Keep in mind that it only accelerates DirectX 9 and Open GL.

If you run dxdiag, you'll find that it fail DX7/8 tests, but DX9 tests works. So those old DX6 games will fail.

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Reply 2 of 5, by Xenphor

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I see. I ran the tests and it did pass both direct3d 8 and 9 but not 7.

Reply 3 of 5, by teleguy

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VMWare Player supports DirectX 7.

Reply 4 of 5, by Xenphor

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teleguy wrote:

VMWare Player supports DirectX 7.

Ok. I tried Midtown Madness and it actually detected VMware SVGA II as a renderer but was unable to get into an actual game without corruption.

Reply 5 of 5, by Xenphor

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Ok I tried Motocross Madness 2 and that actually seemed to work ok with some slight performance issues.

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