Games Within Virtual PC?

[deadman_uk]

I have an old game here which crashes after 10 minutes of play in Windows Vista and 7. It's called Jimmy White's Cueball World. I was hoping to run it in a virtual machine under windows XP. I installed Virtual PC and Windows XP SP3. I managed to install the game and the patch, but when I run the game, it opens and then closes immediately.

Do I need to install my video card drivers within the virtual machine? I noticed Virtual PC uses a simulated graphics chip. This is all new to me so please help!

 

[nessus]

It depends on what type of graphics accerleration the game uses. The emulated video card in Microsoft virtual PC is not particularly advanced. I don't think it will emulate DirectX 9, which is a really old standard.

VMware Player has DirectX 9 support. It is free as well. You should be able to use VMware converter to make your current Windows Virtual PC VM into a VMware Player VM. then it should just be a matter of installing the VMware Plyer guest additions.

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

 

[deadman_uk]

Thanks nessus, I shall try out your suggestion