Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 16:08, David Liebman<[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm trying to get a Windows XP Guest on a Linux Host to use 3d >> acceleration. Is there anywhere I can find a document showing what the >> minimum host requirements are? I have a laptop with a ATI graphics card. >> I use the radeon driver and I can get compiz to work to some degree, so >> I thought I'd try 3d on vbox. >> >> I have a working XP guest and a certain application that I'd like to see >> run (a game) but it never runs. I get a pop-up on the screen that says >> that drawing surfaces cannot be initialized, and that I should change my >> resolution to something lower, but the game still doesn't work at the >> lower res. I think the message is specific to that program, not to XP. >> >> I have tried changing the "video memory" to 128, and though the vbox >> still runs, the game does not. I am using vbox 3.0.2 and the >> VBoxGuestAdditions that came with that version. I have tried updating >> directx. Maybe I have misunderstood the entire problem. If so hopefully >> I have come to the right place and someone can set me straight. >> > > To get DIrect3D working on a Guest (assuming thats what you have) you > need to install the guest additions in safe mode. Exactly ... > After that run directxdiag (or something like that) from start -> run > and see if the direct3D tests run. Thats "dxdiag". Also, Direct3D7 is not supported. There, you always get the "out of memory" message, even when checking from dxdiag. Neither are D10 and D11, of course.
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