VBox 7.0.10 and DX9 3D acceleration

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Sass Drake
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VBox 7.0.10 and DX9 3D acceleration

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I have issue running Neverwinter Nights 2 in VBox 7.0.10 when 3D acceleration is enabled in VM settings and issue is present in bith W10 x64 and W11 guest. NWN2 crashes on startup without giving error message. If I disable 3D acceleration, NWN2 runs but it uses Microsoft Basic Display Driver which means low FPS.
In order to remove NWN2 as potential culprit I've installed 3DMark03 and 3DMark06 in guest. 3DMark03 tests runs normally and they indeed utilize my RTX 3070. However, 3DMark06 give this error message (see attachments). Now I'm not sure why VBox can't run test altough it reports SM 3.0 support.

Host specs:
AMD Ryzen 5800X
32 GiB DDR4-3600
RTX 3070 with driver 536.99 DCH
Windows 10 x64 22H2
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mpack
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Re: VBox 7.0.10 and DX9 3D acceleration

Post by mpack »

As far as I can tell, the D3DXCreateTextureFromFileInMemoryEx function should be supported in D3D9. Though perhaps it is something that can't be translated into OpenGL.

What happens if you run 3DMark06 on the host?

If the same test app works on the host then perhaps you should raise a BugTracker ticket. Attach one zipped log file (not five), and you should link to this topic too.
Sass Drake
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Re: VBox 7.0.10 and DX9 3D acceleration

Post by Sass Drake »

mpack wrote: 17. Aug 2023, 15:46 As far as I can tell, the D3DXCreateTextureFromFileInMemoryEx function should be supported in D3D9. Though perhaps it is something that can't be translated into OpenGL.

What happens if you run 3DMark06 on the host?

If the same test app works on the host then perhaps you should raise a ticket. Attach one zipped log file (not five), and you should link to this topic too.

Both 3DMark06 and NWN2 works correctly on host. I've raised bug ticket (21811).
Last edited by mpack on 17. Aug 2023, 17:01, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: Add link to ticket.
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