Has anyone tried running games in Virtual PC 2007 under XP?

[Golgatha]

Just wondering what kind of limitations I would be facing by installing Virtual PC 2007, installing WinXP 32bit on it, and then installing games on the virtual PC. Do you get 3D acceleration and are there any compatibility problems I should be aware of? Don't really want to dual boot anymore, because there are just a handful of games that don't work. Also, I've been thinking of setting up a virtual machine and installing a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI for some retro gaming under either Win2k or Win98SE. It would be very helpful to know if 3D acceleration works or not.

Thanks in advance.:beer:

 

[AnnonUSA]

Virtual PC uses generic video drivers.

 

[JasonCoder]

No 3D acceleration in a virtualized environment. At least in VPC and I'm almost 100% sure VMWare.

 

[child of wonder]

No 3d acceleration.

I have used it to install Win98 and MW2 and it runs great.

 

[Czar]

VMware workstation 6.5 which is currently in beta supports Directx9 acceleration.

 

[BFG10K]

Does it support OpenGL too?

 

[Bateluer]

Not all games require any 3D acceleration though. You could easy play some of the old Ultima or M&M games on a Virtual PC with generic video.

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: Czar
VMware workstation 6.5 which is currently in beta supports Directx9 acceleration.

That's pretty sweet. No surprise really... VMWare has been the market leader for... ever I think.

 

[CP5670]

Virtual PC is pretty hit or miss with old games. I've gotten some games that wouldn't run on XP to work, but not others. I mainly use it for listening to midis, through an old Yamaha software synthesizer that only works on 98/ME but makes most midi files sound very good (it came on an old Asus CD).

I tried the free version of VMWare a while ago but couldn't get it to emulate a sound card properly. I didn't spend much time with it though and may have just missed something obvious.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: CP5670
Virtual PC is pretty hit or miss with old games. I've gotten some games that wouldn't run on XP to work, but not others. I mainly use it for listening to midis, through an old Yamaha software synthesizer that only works on 98/ME but makes most midi files sound very good (it came on an old Asus CD).

I tried the free version of VMWare a while ago but couldn't get it to emulate a sound card properly. I didn't spend much time with it though and may have just missed something obvious.

Ok, now I wish that VMware had firewire support so I could use my old video editing software, which is not compatible with Vista.