3D Acceleration Support

pcjason · Post by **pcjason** » 17. Dec 2008, 21:43

Sasquatch wrote:I just tested it with Compiz-Fusion. That's a no-go. Got the white screen. It does rotate however. It probably needs some tweaking.

Can you elaborate on this? From the release notes it appears that OpenGL is only supported in Windows-based guests. If there is some way to get OpenGL support in linux-based guests I would love to hear it!

Post by **Sasquatch** » 17. Dec 2008, 22:30

pcjason wrote:
Sasquatch wrote:I just tested it with Compiz-Fusion. That's a no-go. Got the white screen. It does rotate however. It probably needs some tweaking.
Can you elaborate on this? From the release notes it appears that OpenGL is only supported in Windows-based guests. If there is some way to get OpenGL support in linux-based guests I would love to hear it!

Oh, must have misread it then. Thought it was also available for Linux Guests. Well, that explains it at least

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Wiz · Post by **Wiz** » 17. Dec 2008, 23:23

Just tried Half-Life 1 into a windows guest. Linux 64 bits host with a no real graphic card : "Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM 20061102"

The game is playable at 640x480, 15~30 fps. But mouse is going anywhere so I was not able to get far in the game (and had to pause the game to screenshot).
Screenshot here : http://uppix.net/d/3/b/69089886e55252b1 ... 6f134.html

Leonid · Post by **Leonid** » 17. Dec 2008, 23:32

Wiz wrote:Just tried Half-Life 1 into a windows guest. Linux 64 bits host with a no real graphic card : "Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM 20061102"

The game is playable at 640x480, 15~30 fps. But mouse is going anywhere so I was not able to get far in the game (and had to pause the game to screenshot).
Screenshot here : http://uppix.net/d/3/b/69089886e55252b1 ... 6f134.html

Disable mouse pointer integration.

Wiz · Post by **Wiz** » 18. Dec 2008, 00:22

Leonid wrote:Disable mouse pointer integration.

What an idiot. Thank you

AlGaN · Post by **AlGaN** » 18. Dec 2008, 13:27

Hi all,

Just one question about OpenGL support in a Windows XP guest on Linx host (Ubuntu 8.04).

I'd love to get OpenGL support for developing apps, but in my XP guest it seems that 3D is only working fullscreen (e.g. XP screensaver 3D examples). If I try to execute a Qt OpenGL example in a window I only get empty widgets/labels in the app, showing the backgroud of the desktop.

So is there only fullscreen OpenGL support or is it meant to be working in window mode, too?

Thanks for any hints,
AlGaN

Leonid · Post by **Leonid** » 18. Dec 2008, 13:48

AlGaN wrote:Hi all,

I'd love to get OpenGL support for developing apps, but in my XP guest it seems that 3D is only working fullscreen (e.g. XP screensaver 3D examples). If I try to execute a Qt OpenGL example in a window I only get empty widgets/labels in the app, showing the backgroud of the desktop.

So is there only fullscreen OpenGL support or is it meant to be working in window mode, too?

Thanks for any hints,
AlGaN

Should work in windowed mode too.

Technologov · Post by **Technologov** » 18. Dec 2008, 22:26

>So is there only fullscreen OpenGL support or is it meant to be working in window mode, too?

Windowed mode work fine. - Running "Serious Sam 1" OpenGL in Windowed mode - it is one of the _very_ few games that allow windowed mode playing.

cb88 · Post by **cb88** » 19. Dec 2008, 08:35

well glest is windowed might wanna test that one

homeworld:cateclysm has an opengl renderer (which i will test sometime in jan 09 when i get time) works in wine

also does this work? http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... e_id=36841

doorknob60 · Post by **doorknob60** » 21. Dec 2008, 22:42

pcjason wrote:
Sasquatch wrote:I just tested it with Compiz-Fusion. That's a no-go. Got the white screen. It does rotate however. It probably needs some tweaking.
Can you elaborate on this? From the release notes it appears that OpenGL is only supported in Windows-based guests. If there is some way to get OpenGL support in linux-based guests I would love to hear it!

I'm running Cruchbang Linux (Based on Ubuntu 8.10) as a guest in Virtualbox 2.1.0 in Arch Linux 64 Host, and I can run glxgears and glxinfo says that I have direct rendering. I of course installed guest additions. So it seems like OpenGL is supported on Linux too, because I certainly wasn't able to do this before.

Leonid · Post by **Leonid** » 22. Dec 2008, 09:47

doorknob60 wrote: I'm running Cruchbang Linux (Based on Ubuntu 8.10) as a guest in Virtualbox 2.1.0 in Arch Linux 64 Host, and I can run glxgears and glxinfo says that I have direct rendering. I of course installed guest additions. So it seems like OpenGL is supported on Linux too, because I certainly wasn't able to do this before.

It's certainly not supported on Linux, yet.

Post by **The MAZZTer** » 23. Dec 2008, 03:38

IIRC the VirtualBox CHM says Linux OpenGL accel is really really slow ATM. Probably best just to pretend it doesn't exist until it gets faster in a future release.

Leonid · Post by **Leonid** » 23. Dec 2008, 04:08

The MAZZTer wrote:IIRC the VirtualBox CHM says Linux OpenGL accel is really really slow ATM. Probably best just to pretend it doesn't exist until it gets faster in a future release.

There's no opengl 3d acceleration support for Linux guests provided by virtualbox at the moment. Slow or fast, whatever.
If something works it means you're using software renderer.

sannysanoff · Post by **sannysanoff** » 25. Dec 2008, 00:09

Seems to draw quickly enough (not immediately, but after 10-15 seconds - JIT?), but now I am unable to select face(plane) by clicking. Still I can select the whole object using rectangular selection. Switching off hardware acceleration in Sketchup's options helps, but drawing goes back to slow.

Ubuntu 8.04 i386 + Windows XP + VBox 2.1.0
Sketchup 7 build 8657

Any ideas?

Alex.

Post by **The MAZZTer** » 7. Jan 2009, 23:35

Leonid wrote:
The MAZZTer wrote:IIRC the VirtualBox CHM says Linux OpenGL accel is really really slow ATM. Probably best just to pretend it doesn't exist until it gets faster in a future release.
There's no opengl 3d acceleration support for Linux guests provided by virtualbox at the moment. Slow or fast, whatever.
If something works it means you're using software renderer.

Sorry I was thinking of Linux HOSTS. Just checked the CHM and realized I had gotten a little confused.

virtualbox.org

3D Acceleration Support

Google Sketchup with 3D acceleration enabled