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Hello Everyone,

New to VirtualBox and has some specific questions VirtualBox's use.

I really want to install my old PC games on VirtualBox I have a large collection of Games spanning from Win95 to Win10 which requires use of different versions of DirectX to support them so I was wondering if it was necessary for me to install DirectX drivers on each guest OS/virtual machine or should/can I use the host machines version of DirectX (if that's even possible?)

I'm using Win10 as host machine and the latest version of VirtualBox, also is there any source/help/tutorials/tips on setting up/and making the most use out of VirtualBox for old PC Games.

Thank you so much!

Warm regards to all, MikeG65.

You can't install your own DirectX drivers because they are specific to the graphics card, in this case the virtual card installed in a virtual machine: and you won't find drivers for those outside of the VirtualBox install.

To get DirectX in a VirtualBox VM you have to install the Guest Additions, and it will be Direct3D 8/9 level support only - so you can forget about Win10 games unless they are backwards compatible with XP!

Basically, VMs are not ideally suited to running graphics heavy games, they are designed for applications where the overhead of running a VM is not important, e.g. apps such a spreadsheets which spend most of their time waiting on user input. That said, with the GAs installed I can run some 3D accelerated CAD apps, view YouTube videos of reasonable size etc - I'm not personally in to playing games.