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I thought I will try to give 3D accel. a run with 3.1 and see if this game from 2004 (Prince Of Persia) will run. It just doesn't let me launch the game. It errors out with "Unsupported Graphics Card.". Is there a way to tell VB to advertize itself as nvidia geforce4 card just to fake out the game? I am pretty sure if this hurdle is passed, VB can play this game with good frame rates...

Games usually checks for certain features. Did you install the Guest Additions in safe mode?

Sasquatch wrote:Games usually checks for certain features. Did you install the Guest Additions in safe mode?

yeah. I did.

I think its not checking for any specific features (only direct X version). Its just checking for certain names which were valid cards at that time. If we can fake the name somehow, I think it will work.

Only possible if you know what it's looking for and where that check is. Since that is a form of hacking/cracking, we can't discuss that here.

This game works fine under wine (but its an additional 4 GB wasted) but the goal was to see if VB can play it from the native install of XP with 3D enabled with decent frame rates. This is an i7 system with 920 running at 4Ghz, so the hardware should be capable even if under a VM.

What do you mean with "additional 4GB wasted"? Wine isn't that big. If it's PoP, why not just run it directly with Wine, instead of installing it again?

Sasquatch wrote:What do you mean with "additional 4GB wasted"? Wine isn't that big. If it's PoP, why not just run it directly with Wine, instead of installing it again?

I need to reinstall it under wine because if I try to run the one from my Windows partition, it keeps cribbing about "path not found" and exits. So, its 4 GB of previous disk space on SSD wasted.

With "Path not found" errors, is it the game path itself? If so, you can easily fix that by using winecfg to add the proper paths, given that you originally installed the game on a different drive than C:.

Else, get cracking and find out how to fix it (use google on the error about incompatible card).

Yeah, I had originally installed it at X: because C: did not have much space, so I pointed the mount point to X: in winecfg and launched it like: wine x:\Program\ Files\...

I tried googling the incompatible card error but did not get much.

Is it even possible to rename the graphics card adapter in VB configuration somewhere?

Unless you modify the source code and compile it, you can't.

I just reinstalled the game in the VM. It went past that unsupported card thingy but did not work because it failed to load the CD. Its the original CD but it says put the original CD in and restart. So, VB is not emulating some APIs which provide the DRM related secure locking.

I wonder why does it allow me to install if it thinks its not the original CD.

I reboot into Winxp natively and the game works fine with the same CD in.