Project heading into road blocks, performance woes.

[Zigeris]

I have Madden 08 PC and I am trying to run it on my VM.

It plays, but is choppy as all hell. Even with 3d acceleration at 256mb and 4 cores with 4gb RAM.

My specs are FX8350, 16GB DDR3, GTX760, and I even have additional card to put in, a ATI 512mb which I am trying to dedicate solely for the VM.

It's a Windows 7 VM as some of the other programs I will use will need Win7.

[BillG]

If you want to see the benefit of your video card specs, run the program in the host, not the guest. The vm cannot see it (or them). It sees only its own emulated card, which is not really games capable.

[Zigeris]

Yes, well I need some way to get my secondary card to be recognized by the VM as a viable option. I read somewhere it was doable.

[Perryg]

It is possible albeit really difficult but it requires a Linux host as that is the only architecture that allows VirtualBox to pass through PCI devices.

[mpack]

"Using VirtualBox" is not an appropriate forum for this discussion - you don't seem to be having a usage issue with the host software. Moving you to "Windows Guests". The appropriate host forum would probably be even better, if you hadn't neglected to mention what it was.

Please post a VM log file. With the VM fully shut down, right click it in GUI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (ONLY) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.