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garbled text in Windows 10 after upgrading to VB6

Posted: 14. Feb 2019, 21:40
by ZenJim
Hi

I'm having a problem with garbled text in Windows 10.
Running on iMac with Virtualbox 6.0.4
screenshot and logs attached.
seems to affect all text in all windows.

Re: garbled text in Windows 10 after upgrading to VB6

Posted: 14. Feb 2019, 21:59
by andyp73
VBox.log wrote:
00:00:01.732024   VMSVGA3dEnabled  <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
00:00:01.732025   VMSVGAEnabled    <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
00:00:01.732025   VRamSize         <integer> = 0x0000000008000000 (134 217 728, 128 MB)
This looks like you are using the new VMSVGA vGPU. This is meant mainly for Linux guests and has a few teething troubles anyway. Does the situation improve if you change this back to VBoxVGA (no S).

-Andy.

Re: garbled text in Windows 10 after upgrading to VB6

Posted: 14. Feb 2019, 22:14
by ZenJim
that was it! thanks so much for the speedy fix! :D

Re: garbled text in Windows 10 after upgrading to VB6

Posted: 15. Feb 2019, 08:26
by socratis
Glad you got it going, marking as [Solved].