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I have been having trouble on running older games like Turok Dinosaur hunter and Turok 2 on Windows XP using VirtualBox. I did install all of the drivers and windows updates and also I did install the VirtualBox extension files and guest files. According to my device manager it looks like all drivers are installed. I did check the box for Direct3D when I installed the guest files but for somereason when I launch the game it says no Direct3D hardware acceration detected on both games. Does anyone know why it doesn't work? I did max out the video settings to 128mb and enable 2D and 3D, etc. My system specs exceed what the game needs.

Vbox isn't really a platform for games but
Did you boot the XP guest in safe mode before you installed the guest additions?

Yes I did since at first I tried doing it in normal mode but when I ran setup and checked the Direct3D box it said it needed to be in safe mode to install it so I rebooted the computer and ran safe mode and then installed it then it installed the Direct3D with the other guest files.

The sole use I am making of VirtualBox is to play games under Windows.

I am really at a loss in diagnozing the source of the problem. Hardware acceleration is functional on the host, I would assume?

You could also test if other 3D games of that era are working. I never have been running into the kind of problem you are experiencing.

EDIT: check if modern-times DirectX-9 runtimes are installed on the guest system -- I wonder if that might help in such a case.

What do you mean modern times DirectX 9? I did install the latest DirectX files basicly even the optional ones. I did try to install Thief: The Dark Project demo and see if it works and it loads the menu and stuff but when before the actual game starts where I play the game doesn't respond and I have to quit the game. There was a shareware version of Quake and it's the one that doesn't need DOS for somereason but that game runs fine. Turok Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2 Seeds of Evil doesn't load since it can't find a 3D acceleration card graphics card for somereason. I was trying to find a software to emulate Direct3D but I can't find one. I tried using 3d analyzer but since I don't really know how it works it didn't work right. Eatherway I didn't think that program will emulate Direct3D since most forums say that you have to buy a 3D acceleration card.


I do know that I always had the problem of running Quake on XP since it was a DOS game but the shareware version that is a exe program that I found on google makes it so it will run for somereason.

So I guess there is no way to fix this problem since no one is replying. I also kinda wonder the reason the game doesn't work it since it doesn't reconize the graphics card name. Since it's named like virtual graphics card and not like ATI or GeForce or Intel it maybe assume that the card can't do Direct3D.

Play games native. Or use WINE under Linux. VMs are not made for gaming, as written above.

So I guess there is no way to fix this problem since no one is replying. I also kinda wonder the reason the game doesn't work it since it doesn't reconize the graphics card name. Since it's named like virtual graphics card and not like ATI or GeForce or Intel it maybe assume that the card can't do Direct3D.

Thats a "virtualizer". Every guest on every machine has the same virtual hardware, no matter, what the host really has.