Game graphics in WM?

[mark-n4]

I want to play a ten years old game (GTA 1) on my laptop with Windows XP and nvidia graphics card 8400g m. The game's menu looks fine, but when I start a new game, the graphics get so deformed I can't see anything. Now here is the strange thing: if I ran it under virtual machine with Windows XP installed, it works fine, there's no deformation at all!

Can anyone explain this? What is the thing that makes it work properly under WM?

[Freyr]

If you have the dos version try using dosbox.
http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?sho ... 3&letter=G

Also you can download for free a version of this game, if you sign up for their newsletter over at rockstar's website. Going by their site they updated them to work better on more modern Operating Systems.
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/?id=1

Also you can get it off steam but only as a bundle it seems,
http://store.steampowered.com/app/12170/

[mark-n4]

I already tried many different versions of the game and nothing worked. In GTA 1 forums it's a well known problem on the computers with nvidia graphics cards (series 8 ). The only known solution by now is to run it under virtual machine (but that way the network mode is not possible because of the problems with synchronization of different operating systems).

So I'm trying to discover what makes it work under WM. Is it some optimized drivers or something ... ?