How well does the 3D acceleration in VirtualBox work?
 

Does the emulated graphics card in vbox work just like a comparable physical card?

I'm wondering because there's a couple games I'd like to install in my guest OS that won't run in wine, and they have a minimum requirement of 64mb graphics card, recommended 128 (I keep vbox at 128mb). Can I expect them to run just as well as they would on a real computer with all the same numbers as the virtual machine?

Why don't you try it out and then you tell us how well it works?

Because I won't have the discs for a couple more days.

Why on earth do you take this question from the Zero Reply List with such a useless answer?


@Cultist: I have tried it with XP Professional on a 64 bit host and with Windows 7 Enterprise on a 32 bit host, and could not get 3D acceleration to work, both times tested with dxdiag.

It does work with 32 bit XP and Vista guests.
Since it's using Wine code (wineD3D) for DirectX, it will not add much extra for games though (unless they're using OpenGL).

Hey, man . . . read the origional question.

It's kinda like sitting at a table with a plate of food in front of you and asking a passer-by, "Hey, is this food any good? Do I like it?"

I don't know . . . why not taste it and let me know.

So the OP has a reason to ask. If you can't give a useful answer, don't post. At most if you take someone from the Zero Reply List.


@jens: How did you get it working?

After enabling 3D in VB, boot your Windows guest in safe mode (F8).

(Re-)install the guest additions and you'll see an extra option for Direct 3D.

Thanks, that worked.