Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2009-02-28 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:08:44 +0200 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:08:10 +0200 > "Alexey Eremenko" wrote: > > > Buying 2x GeForce 8 is never an option - too pricey. 500$ for each > > card So, I will still prefer dual boot to this kind of > > virtualization. This is

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-28 Thread Daniel Spies
> Reading that page, Titans Quest is indeed supported: > > http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=4396 One star out of five is probably similar to: Nothing works except installing. > And about the anticheat programs, maybe as they're not games per se they > aren't listed there.

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-26 Thread Dmitriy Kazimirov
Parallels Workstation for Mac use wined3d for emulation of Direct3D via OpenGL calls(not whole wine, just it's d3d->opengl translator) Looks like once VirtualBox's OpenGL will become stable this is simplest way to get d3d acceleration working. p.s.Last time I checked Cedega it didn't work with Pun

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-26 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 16:38:53 Daniel Spies wrote: > > Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a license for cedega? US$60 dlrs/year > > instead of $500 for each card. cedega runs most of the windows games, > > including the latest ones: > > > > http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb/ > > > > Cheers, > > N

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-26 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Well, at least the OpenGL layer can function stable... in the future... the Direct3D discussion is still open. Having good OpenGL support will make about half of the games run. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@v

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Spies
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 22:40:56 Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:07:58 Daniel Spies wrote: > > A nice guy from the Xen mailing list gave an interesting > > hint. It should be possible to fully assign a graphic > > adapter to the guest OS. Probably the best way is

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Spies
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 03:08:10 Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Buying 2x GeForce 8 is never an option - too pricey. 500$ for each > card So, I will still prefer dual boot to this kind of > virtualization. This is exactly the card used by gamers. The > non-gamers doesn't care about 3D anyways

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-26 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:07:58 Daniel Spies wrote: > A nice guy from the Xen mailing list gave an interesting > hint. It should be possible to fully assign a graphic > adapter to the guest OS. Probably the best way is a > dual screen/graphic card, one for each OS. > > This means native speed

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-26 Thread Alexey Eremenko
> Sorry to correct you: I am a complete non-gamer, still I need OpenGL support > for a topographic software. I tried to install it on a XP guest, but it > complained about missing OpenGL support. OK > What can I do? > Not very much, unless you can program that feature yourself. -- -Alexey Erem

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-26 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:08:10 +0200 "Alexey Eremenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Buying 2x GeForce 8 is never an option - too pricey. 500$ for each > card So, I will still prefer dual boot to this kind of > virtualization. This is exactly the card used by gamers. The > non-gamers doesn't car

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-25 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 9/25/07, Daniel Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A nice guy from the Xen mailing list gave an interesting > hint. It should be possible to fully assign a graphic > adapter to the guest OS. Probably the best way is a > dual screen/graphic card, one for each OS. > > This means native speed with

Re: [vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel Spies
A nice guy from the Xen mailing list gave an interesting hint. It should be possible to fully assign a graphic adapter to the guest OS. Probably the best way is a dual screen/graphic card, one for each OS. This means native speed with native drivers. More detailed this means Pixel Shader 4.0 and m

[vbox-users] 3D acceleration questions

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel Spies
Hi List, At the moment I'm searching for a solution to get 3d Acceleration in a MS Windows guest OS. I already checked some thing with XEN, and am trying to find the best way... I read http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/475 and http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=16 and now I ask myself