Hi, is there any way to run this edition on VMWare or VirtualBox without the video card incompatibility error? It occurs regardless of my hypervisor version. Neither using 3D-Analyze, SwiftShader or WineD3D help.
MCE 2005 runs fine in VMWare Workstation, I have it running on a Windows 7 x64 host. I never received any video card incompatibility error, it installs the default SVGA driver. You need to install guest additions if you want hardware acceleration AND your CPU needs to support hardware virtualization. Even if your CPU supports it you may need to enable it in BIOS, I had to do it on my Thinkpad.
Norton Commander wrote on 2026-03-26, 15:16:MCE 2005 runs fine in VMWare Workstation, I have it running on a Windows 7 x64 host. I never received any video card incompatibility error, it installs the default SVGA driver. You need to install guest additions if you want hardware acceleration AND your CPU needs to support hardware virtualization. Even if your CPU supports it you may need to enable it in BIOS, I had to do it on my Thinkpad.
The incompatibly error appears when I run WMC. My virtualization is obviously enabled.
Obviously not.
You should be seeing VMWare SVGA II as the adapter in the MCE guest after you install guest additions and all the Direct3D/DirectX tests should pass in dxdiag.
I also got it working in PCEM if you want to go that route.
I 'm using WMWare Workstation 25H2 on my Windows 10 x64. I see the error "Your video card or drivers are not compatible with Media Center.". It appears in Media Center only. I've tested previous version of this hypervisor or VMWARE Tools and there hasn't been any change so far.
Patch the ehshell.exe.config file to remove the GPU check.
Its been a long time since I used XP MCE, I seem to remember it was a matter of just commenting out the Video Render validation.
ElectroSoldier wrote on 2026-03-26, 21:46:Patch the ehshell.exe.config file to remove the GPU check.
Its been a long time since I used XP MCE, I seem to remember it was a matter of just commenting out the Video Render validation.
How to do it?
I 've seen that ehsell.exe.config doesn't regard the video card compatibility.
Finally 've solved this issue. You need to add DisableDxCheck and DisableDx9CapsCheck values into Windows registry and copy all the .dll files from WineD3D archive apart from ddraw.dll. Therefore, it's a bit tricky, isn't it?
