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Hi - I wanted to run my old MS flight simulator 98, So I thought using a VB Guest with Win 98SE would be good.
But - the Flight simulator needs 256 colours and when I install Win98 second edition the VGA only offers 2 or 16 colours and a fixed screen resolution.

Is there any way to "upgrade the video card" in a virtual machine?
or get it to offer some more options?

So far I tried just changing the adapter to SVGA under the Windows settings - that crashed.

I'm running Virtual box 5.010 on Win 7 64 bit machine.

Thanks

VirtualBox emulates a VESA compatible graphics card, so yes, you can install a VESA graphics driver. Please see the "Howtos and Tutorials" section. I prefer the BearWindows Universal driver, as the Display Doctor one is trialware and you can never register it now.

Note that the original URL for downloading the Bearwindows driver will no longer work. It is currently available from http://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/.

dlharper wrote:Note that the original URL for downloading the Bearwindows driver will no longer work. It is currently available from http://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/.

Thanks, but I'm pretty sure I changed the tutorials in mid year to correct the broken BearWindows links (edit: yes I did).

Some of the links have indeed been changed (possibly most of them) but some still point to the old address. I noticed the one in Section 10 of viewtopic.php?f=28&t=59559. I have not been through all of the tutorials in detail, so this may be the only one left, as far as I know.

I see, thanks. I don't really care for that tutorial - too much sprawling detail packed into one post - so I've never done more than skim content. Link fixed now.