All right, how do I enable Direct3D acceleration in Windows 2000? Whenever I try, I get "The VirtualBox Direct3D support is not available in Windows 2000". Has anyone found a way around this yet?
Thank you.
Windows 2000 Direct3D
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mpack
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Re: Windows 2000 Direct3D
What exactly have you tried?
From what I can tell, only early flavours of DirectX are available in a Win2K guest, which limits how useful the Direct3D drivers will be.
From what I can tell, only early flavours of DirectX are available in a Win2K guest, which limits how useful the Direct3D drivers will be.
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Matt Hazard
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Re: Windows 2000 Direct3D
What have I tried? Oh, I've tried EVERYTHING! I've tried installing the VirtualBox additions in Safe Mode, I've tried manually extracting the driver files as was pointed out here (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25937), I've tried the DirectX wrapper (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxglwrap/), I've tried updating to the latest supported Windows 2000 Direct X (DirectX 9), I've tried the VirtualBox control commands in the command prompt, I tried to make VirtualBox think my guest OS could support Direct3D, I've even tried basic registry "hacks". Nothing seems to work, and to make matters worse, I've found a few more problems with Virtual Box that I probably wouldn't have noticed before if I wasn't trying all this crazy stuff.mpack wrote:What exactly have you tried?
From what I can tell, only early flavours of DirectX are available in a Win2K guest, which limits how useful the Direct3D drivers will be.
But you know what? All of this headache....ALL OF IT could go away if I just dropped $250 on VMware Workstation. They have nearly PERFECT virtualization of Direct3D....but at a price. And that's sadly one of the few things VirtualBox is missing. And it is one of the only major things VirtualBox is missing. If I could just figure out how to get Direct3D to run in Windows 2000 in VirtualBox, then a great victory over VMware is won! But if I can't, than all of this is for naught.
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This is what I see:
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Matt Hazard
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Re: Windows 2000 Direct3D
SOLVED
Just installed VMware Workstation 10. Works perfectly.
Just installed VMware Workstation 10. Works perfectly.