Online Gaming Help

[hogyoku]

Hello,

I recently downloaded and installed VirtualBox onto my Mac OSX with Leopard today. I had some troubles initially with the installing of my guest, Windows XP, but I eventually worked it all out. Now, the whole reason I wanted to use VirtualBox was so that I could download MMORPGs and play online games. Once I was using Windows XP with VirtualBox, I downloaded and installed an online game called Neo Steam. It downloaded and installed just fine. Once I tried to start the game though, Windows XP gave me a blue screen with quite a lot of text on it for about the blink of an eye before restarting back to normal. I've already posted on the game board hoping that it's a problem at their end, but I have a feeling it's not. Any advice or help would be appreciated. I can supply more information if needed.

Thank you.

[Sasquatch]

Check http://neosteam.gamigo.com/support/support2/ where it states you need DirectX. VB does not provide that, only experimental OpenGL.

[hogyoku]

I've installed DirectX now and it still is shutting down. Thanks for trying. Does anyone else have any ideas?

[macvboxuser09]

I think he means that because the games you want to play REQUIRE DirectX you can't run them at all. Even if you download the DirectX software, the Virtual Box itself is not able to talk to your host computer's graphic hardware using Direct X.

I've had the same problem, trying to setup up an Age of Empires game. (Running Vbox on Mac).

I'm thinking there might be a way to make the game play in OpenGL, the video acceleration that is supported with Virtual Box. I'll get back to you if I find something!

[Entegy]

DirectX is not supported in virtual machines. Make a Boot Camp partition and use that for games.

[ajmas]

If you look in the "windows guests" forum there is a thread on how to install WineD3D. It should be noted that like OpenGL support, on which it depends, it is a work in progress. This means that some stuff may run and dome stuff may not.