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3d acceleration

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 01/21/2009
From: theclyburns
Message:

I installed virtual pc on my win xp pro 64 computer so that i could install
win 98 in order to play games that are only compatible with win 98. However,
some of the games require 3d acceleration and will not function. I have a
great graphics setup on my computer but for some reason virtual pc will not
access it apparently. how do i get virtual pc to access it?

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Re: 3d acceleration

Sent: 01/21/2009
From: "Steve Jain [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:03:01 -0800, theclyburns
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

No VM solution will give you direct access to your physical GPU.

VPC provides no 3d hardware acceleration.
VMWare provides limited DX9 support, you could try that.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

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>I installed virtual pc on my win xp pro 64 computer so that i could install
>win 98 in order to play games that are only compatible with win 98. However,
>some of the games require 3d acceleration and will not function. I have a
>great graphics setup on my computer but for some reason virtual pc will not
>access it apparently. how do i get virtual pc to access it?

Re: 3d acceleration

Sent: 01/21/2009
From: Grand_Poobah <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

--->

You don't. Your virtual PC uses emulated hardware and the video 'card'
is only a Trio S3 with 8Mb of RAM. It is possible to increase the RAM
to 16Mb by editing the VMC file, but that still won't get you 3d
acceleration.

You have to think of a virtual PC as a completely separate physical machine.

GP

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> I installed virtual pc on my win xp pro 64 computer so that i could install
> win 98 in order to play games that are only compatible with win 98. However,
> some of the games require 3d acceleration and will not function. I have a
> great graphics setup on my computer but for some reason virtual pc will not
> access it apparently. how do i get virtual pc to access it?

Re: 3D acceleration

Sent: 01/21/2009
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"theclyburns" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

The reason is that, apart from the CPU, all virtual hardware inside a
virtual machine is emulated - the host machine's physical hardware is
completely irrelevant:
http://vpc.visualwin.com/ngfaq.aspx#8

You can't...

--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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> I installed Virtual PC on my Win XP Pro 64 computer so that I could
> install
> Win 98 in order to play games that are only compatible with Win 98.
> However,
> some of the games require 3D acceleration and will not function. I have a
> great graphics setup on my computer but for some reason Virtual PC will
> not
> access it apparently.
> How do I get Virtual PC to access it?

Re: 3d acceleration

Sent: 01/22/2009
From: (email address - cut out)
Message:

On Jan 21, 2:03=A0pm, theclyburns
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:
ll
er,
ot

Vmware 6.5 3D Support is actually pretty good if you have a fast CPU
and a fast GPU. It's not perfect but it's the best out there right
now. (If your running Vmware on Windows though your still better off
running the game in host Windows).

VirtualBox supports OpenGL acceleration but not Direct3D. (Direct3D
support will be in a future release)

The above two products only support D3D or OGL acceleration in Windows
XP+ guest. So with 9x your SOL unless you use software video emulation
like Swiftshader.

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> I installed virtual pc on my win xp pro 64 computer so that i could insta=
> win 98 in order to play games that are only compatible with win 98. Howev=
> some of the games require 3d acceleration and will not function. I have a
> great graphics setup on my computer but for some reason virtual pc will n=
> access it apparently. how do i get virtual pc to access it?

Re: 3d acceleration

Sent: 01/23/2009
From: asdfgh <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Steve Jain [MVP] wrote:

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> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:03:01 -0800, theclyburns
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>> I installed virtual pc on my win xp pro 64 computer so that i could install
>> win 98 in order to play games that are only compatible with win 98. However,
>> some of the games require 3d acceleration and will not function. I have a
>> great graphics setup on my computer but for some reason virtual pc will not
>> access it apparently. how do i get virtual pc to access it?
>
> No VM solution will give you direct access to your physical GPU.
>
> VPC provides no 3d hardware acceleration.
> VMWare provides limited DX9 support, you could try that.
>

RE: 3d acceleration

Sent: 03/05/2009
From: "Bian Xi"<(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Anybody tried VMGL? Don't know whether better.

http://blogs.sun.com/SunIntern3D/entry/3d_acceleration_in_vmware_virtual

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> I installed virtual pc on my win xp pro 64 computer so that i could install
> win 98 in order to play games that are only compatible with win 98. However,
> some of the games require 3d acceleration and will not function. I have a
> great graphics setup on my computer but for some reason virtual pc will not
> access it apparently. how do i get virtual pc to access it?

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