...then I remembered that DirectX support has been disabled for XP guests since 6.1
Will we EVER get proper DirectX support on XP guests?
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World Domination Studios
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Will we EVER get proper DirectX support on XP guests?
I was happy to see that 7.0 was adding better DirectX support...
...then I remembered that DirectX support has been disabled for XP guests since 6.1
...then I remembered that DirectX support has been disabled for XP guests since 6.1
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scottgus1
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Re: Will we EVER get proper DirectX support on XP guests?
Probably not. The decision was made by the powers that be, starting in 6.1, to provide 3D acceleration with associated DirectX support only to Windows 7 and later.World Domination Studios wrote: ↑3. Jul 2023, 12:01 Will we EVER get proper DirectX support on XP guests?
The only way XP can get modern DirectX is if some enterprising user rolls their own XP Guest Additions. Virtualbox source code is available to figure out how to do this for those whose eyes don't glaze over when they see C.
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Re: Will we EVER get proper DirectX support on XP guests?
Exactly what scottgus said.
Basically the reason why the old hardware acceleration was removed was due to big security concerns.
Currently Windows XP only supports the old legacy VBoxVGA which is kept in place only to provide a basic desktop for backwards compatibility reasons, but it's not hardware accelerated.
Businesses which are actually paying for the Oracle support have no interest in having hardware acceleration on XP, so it's very unlikely we'll ever see the devs introducing XP support for VBoxSVGA... unless it comes from the community.
Since we're talking about an open source project, anyone can contribute and make drivers for the new SVGA virtual GPU which includes the newer, safer and more reliable hardware acceleration (if one enables it, that is). This is exactly what the community has done for Windows98 (to some extent) as you can see from my post here: viewtopic.php?t=33359&start=165
The new, community maintained, Windows98 graphics driver supports both VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA with the latter being hardware accelerated (if the tickbox is ticked).
Basically the reason why the old hardware acceleration was removed was due to big security concerns.
Currently Windows XP only supports the old legacy VBoxVGA which is kept in place only to provide a basic desktop for backwards compatibility reasons, but it's not hardware accelerated.
Businesses which are actually paying for the Oracle support have no interest in having hardware acceleration on XP, so it's very unlikely we'll ever see the devs introducing XP support for VBoxSVGA... unless it comes from the community.
Since we're talking about an open source project, anyone can contribute and make drivers for the new SVGA virtual GPU which includes the newer, safer and more reliable hardware acceleration (if one enables it, that is). This is exactly what the community has done for Windows98 (to some extent) as you can see from my post here: viewtopic.php?t=33359&start=165
The new, community maintained, Windows98 graphics driver supports both VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA with the latter being hardware accelerated (if the tickbox is ticked).