Unable to use hardware acceleration!

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daydr3am3r
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Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by daydr3am3r »

Hi guys,

I've been using Virtual Box for quite some time now, without any problems.
However, about 1 and a half months ago I noticed I cannot use any machine with 3D enabled.
No matter what I do I get this: Image
Since I was able to use it for years and I haven't made any changes to Windows and BIO (virtualization is on)S, my guess is this is somehow related to an update.
I can use any machine as long as I disable 3D acceleration.
Right now I am using 4.3.12.
Ideas?
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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by mpack »

If you were using 4.3.14 then the cause might be different, but to get this problem with 4.3.12 I can only assume that your host's OpenGL drivers have been broken somehow. You look for a driver update and/or reinstall the existing drivers for your host graphics card.
daydr3am3r
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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by daydr3am3r »

Thanks. I am using 4.3.12. VBox says I have the latest version though.
I reinstalled the driver twice and install an update as well. I will install the latest driver and 4.3.14 to see what happens.

LE:

OK, now this is weird. I just installed 4.3.14 without any errors. However, when I run VBox I get these 2 errors and I have to click OK 20 times each.

Image
Image

After this, I get this error:

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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by mpack »

daydr3am3r wrote:I will install the latest driver and 4.3.14 to see what happens.
I did not suggest that you should install 4.3.14, nor do I recommend it. Do look for that host graphics drivers update.
daydr3am3r
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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by daydr3am3r »

OK. Doing a clean Virtual Box install with 4.3.12.
LE:
I uninstalled VBox 4.3.14 and did a clean install of 4.3.12. I also did a clean install of NVidia drivers (340.52) but the problem is still there.
daydr3am3r
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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by daydr3am3r »

Really? No one has any idea how to fix this? :(
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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by mpack »

As I mentioned in my first post, the most likely cause is broken host OpenGL drivers. Reinstalling VirtualBox will do nothing to help that. Updating your host graphics drivers might. Since I don't recognize it as a VirtualBox problem I do doubt you'll get much help here.
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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by scottgus1 »

Everything was working up to about 1.5 months ago. What changed then? Can you do a System Restore on your host to roll back to a couple months ago and see if that fixes it?

Alternatively, try a complete uninstall of Virtualbox (not the guests, just the program itself) and your video card drivers. Do a couple reboots to get the host completely used to 640x48 resolution and 4 colors :) (You see I remember what Windows ME looked like before drivers were installed). Then put the video card drivers from two months ago on, then Virtualbox. See what happens. If you get everything running, try installing one update at a time, testing your guests each time to see if and when a break happens.

If none of this works, you could have a problem with your video card. Things do break on occasion. :(

Consider, by the way, not letting updates just happen. I run Virtualbox on an "If it ain't broke don't fix it" basis - only update when I need to, not every time a new update is available. Sometimes the update breaks stuff. Similar with Windows updates, under most conditions wait a week to see if the internet explodes with "Microsoft Breaks 30 Million PCs on Update Tuesday" headlines before letting the updates happen. It saves me some trouble.
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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by daydr3am3r »

@scottgus1 - I did uninstall VBox and the drivers and performed a reboot to let Windows install generic drivers and reinstalled the drivers after that. I also performed a system restore some time ago due to an .NET 4 framework problem and I don't recall any changes.

VMware Player works fine with 3D on and so are the Android Emulators. Also, no problem in games.

And I don't update automatically. I wait about 2-3 weeks to see if there is any news about the updates. I had my share of problems back in the XP days so I learned my lesson.
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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by daydr3am3r »

Is there really no fix for this? :| I tried everything(except reinstalling Windows) so far and nothing :| This is really stupid.
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Re: Unable to use hardware acceleration!

Post by loukingjr »

daydr3am3r wrote:Is there really no fix for this? :| I tried everything(except reinstalling Windows) so far and nothing :| This is really stupid.
According to your previous post there is a fix…
VMware Player works fine with 3D on and so are the Android Emulators. Also, no problem in games.
use VMWare Player. :) easy.
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