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I currently have a 32-bit Win10 preview VM installed using 4.3.20. The host is Win7 32-bit with nVidia GeForce 8600GTS and the latest drivers (340.52). The 3D acceleration doesn't really work right. Many programs end up going black or blank. If I disable 3D, then everything works, but that is because Windows reverts to basic drivers, not the GA driver. Device Manager says the GA driver failed or something like that. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the GA. When I've done that I CANNOT deselect the 3D driver install.

I plan on trying a fresh VM install. Just what settings should I use? I have 3D acceleration enabled and video memory set to 256M. Should 2D acceleration also be selected, or leave it off? When I install the Guest additions, is there anything special I should do? Do it in safe mode? Any options to try or not try? Or even if I can't get 3D working, how can I get it to at least use the GA driver in one form or another?

I had tried the 8.1 preview last year, and it worked pretty well. At that time, VB didn't support 3D acceleration for Windows, so it ran in only 2D mode, but was mostly usable. So far, Win10 isn't being as nice.

I also experimented with some Linux (Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and the latest Ubuntu). They generally seemed to work OK, but when I tried a little game (some penguin Kart game), it wouldn't start and doing it from a command line gave some weird repeating OpenGL error. I don't know if that is a VB issue, or some issue with my video.

I'm not going to comment on Windows 10 since it's been covered quite a bit already.

andyross wrote:…I also experimented with some Linux (Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and the latest Ubuntu). They generally seemed to work OK, but when I tried a little game (some penguin Kart game), it wouldn't start and doing it from a command line gave some weird repeating OpenGL error. I don't know if that is a VB issue, or some issue with my video.

however, the "little game (some penguin Kart game)" which I assume is SuperTuxKart has these System Requirements according to the developers.

Hardware requirements

Recommended

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher
CPU: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster.
At least 1 GB VRAM (video memory).
Disk space: 400MB

Minimal (the game might be slow)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx, ATI Radeon HD 4xxx or Intel HD Graphics 2000 (no shawdows and no global illumination) or higher
You should have a CPU that's running at 1GHz or better.
You'll need at least 512 MB of free VRAM (video memory).
Disk space: 400MB