Windows 7 Guest - Graphics Question

[Hamadyne]

Hello,

I am currently running Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise on a Mac OS X Lion host , but I seem to be having issues with the graphics while playing games on there.

For example, I am trying to get Dragon Age: Origins to work. One issue is the fact that the entire screen flickers when I attempt to play. The menus and opening cinematic work just fine, but the next (and my most frustrating) issue occurs after; the program hangs whenever I get to the character creation screen.
I have tried various resolutions, including forcing it to play in windowed mode as opposed to full screen, but the same result keeps happening.

My current VM layout is this:
Version 4.1.2 (for Mac OS X)
2 GB RAM (1067 MHz DDR3)
2 core processors (3.06 GHz Intel core Duo)
256 MB video memory (2D and 3D acceleration enabled) - Graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT (512 MB)
Guest Additions installed

So, am I missing something in this setup? I've looked at the working games thread, but haven't seen anything relating to Dragon Age there. I did a search, but it was for an older version of Virtualbox.

[stefan.becker]

Mostly games does not work in a VM. The 3d functionality its not comparable to native access.

[Hamadyne]

Mostly games does not work in a VM. The 3d functionality its not comparable to native access.

So the 3D acceleration doesn't work properly yet on a VM? I see. Do you know if better functionality is in development?

[adelaide887]

So the 3D acceleration doesn't work properly yet on a VM? I see. Do you know if better functionality is in development?

i also have this question.


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[stefan.becker]

3d works properly in some testcases / environments. For example now Aero on Vista/Win7 works. For some (old) games look into a sticky thread in the windows guest area.

But its a rudimentary solution.

This has nothing to do with vbox, vmware has the same problems.

Through the concept you can not get full access to hardware. There are some new ways for pci-passthrough. Xen has this, VMWARE ESX (AFAIK), KVM and VBOX on linux hosts. But this will only work, if you have another vga card, that can be passed to the guest.

Why do you want this? Use games native. A VM always costs performance.