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Guest additions direct 3d do not work
Posted: 12. Jul 2014, 11:50
by Herû
I have an old game I would like to run (Hype - the time quest). But it gives me the error "No D3D hardware driver found, please reinstall Direct X". I have intalled Guest additions, with Direct 3D, checked the 3D checkbox in the Display settings, reinstalled Direct X and reinstalled the game several times. But get the same Message (the game finds the graphic card to virtualbox howewer).
So what are I missing?
Play the game in Windows XP guest because I have read guest additions not work in Windows 98/95. But now I have come longer to play the game on the Host (because it will play on my Windows 8.1, but since it 64 bit, it would not install probably, so it would not load, but it can play the videos before it loads (the guest can't do that)).
Re: Guest additions direct 3d do not work
Posted: 12. Jul 2014, 12:07
by mpack
Moved to "Windows Guests" as the question is not relevant to "Windows Hosts".
What version of DirectX does the game require?
Did you install the GAs in safe mode?
Post a VM log file. See
Minimum information needed for assistance.
Re: Guest additions direct 3d do not work
Posted: 12. Jul 2014, 12:37
by Herû
The game require Direct x 6.1 or newer (it says 9.0 (that I have installed on the guest) is ok).
I installed Direct 3D in safe mode, and reinnstalled (if it do that) the rest.
The log is the Attached file (the last thing I did was to go in the guest and tried to play the game).
Re: Guest additions direct 3d do not work
Posted: 12. Jul 2014, 14:17
by socratis
Only DirectX 8/9 is supported by VirtualBox, and that not fully (AFAIK). You might be better off if you dual-boot (if you can). A virtual machine's forte is NOT the graphics performance.
Re: Guest additions direct 3d do not work
Posted: 13. Jul 2014, 13:18
by mpack
As far as I can tell from the log, 2D/3D acceleration is enabled, and the GAs are installed and working. You might have to check with other game users about its requirements: it could be that it's doing other checks and making invalid assumptions, e.g. by checking available GRAM.
Re: Guest additions direct 3d do not work
Posted: 12. Jan 2015, 06:35
by FastGarrett
I love this game and I have great news for you. I hope it is not too late.
It works fine when you install nGlide, then restart and chose 3DFX in the UbiAssistant.
Have Fun!
Re: Guest additions direct 3d do not work
Posted: 12. Jan 2015, 10:50
by mpack
FastGarrett wrote:It works fine when you install nGlide, then restart and chose 3DFX in the UbiAssistant.
I hadn't heard of nGlide. Apparantly it provides a "Voodoo Graphics" compatible API that many games recognize, and translates them into DirectX 9 calls. Certainly worth a try, if the game is old enough to recognize the Voodoo API (the website mostly seems to touch on the DOS/Win95 intermediate era).