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Games won't run on Guest XP.
Posted: 24. Feb 2014, 21:10
by PorscheCarrera96
I am trying to run some 3d games on my guest XP, but they all crash right away and one gives me the message: 3d graphics hardware could not be initialized. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks,
John
Re: Games won't run on Guest XP.
Posted: 24. Feb 2014, 21:19
by socratis
Virtual machines will never be as powerful as the host, specially on the video side. Applications that have high requirements on the GPU (drawing, 3D, games) are expected to not work as good as on the real hardware.
Re: Games won't run on Guest XP.
Posted: 27. Feb 2014, 17:15
by PorscheCarrera96
The games I am trying to run do not need that much power. I have a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 6GB of RAM(4GB allotted to Guest), and an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128 MB video card. I am trying to run Need for Speed 5 Porsche Unleashed which does not need very much power at all. Is there a driver or something that I need to install?
Re: Games won't run on Guest XP.
Posted: 27. Feb 2014, 20:05
by mpack
You are allocating 2/3rds of host RAM to a VM intended to run a game? That doesn't sound like a good idea. If host performance suffers because it's starved of resources then the guest also suffers - it is after all simply an application running on the host. It's an XP VM - it should be delighted with 1GB.
If it's a video game then those usually don't work well. I suspect you don't have any idea how much data those things have to shift.
If you've already installed the GAs, with 3D acceleration, and it still doesn't run well, then there's nothing else you can do.