Running VirtualBox on your PC

[seanbro33]

mine says illegal system DLL relocation and shell32.dll

[Miyuki]

in the guest os or host pc.

[Vallard]

Originally Posted by Miyuki

Note: virtualization =/= real computer, and also Direct3D acceleration in VirtualBox probably won't work on most computers as well, since it's just experimental, yet.

Also, going to generate a list of 'compatible and incompatible h/w for Direct3D acceleration list'...so going to ask you guys if you guys have any of these settings =)

Intel


Nvidia


AMD ATi


Include your current PC specifications if possible...

Thanks~

I have a ATI HD5850 black edition, and the acceleration doesn't works, so, isn't compatible with 58xx. =P

Just to contribute. x3

[seanbro33]

thatd be in the guest os
sigh miyuki ive been searching for 4 whole days to play trickster but this just really sucks

[Vallard]

I'm getting this error when I try run trickster in VB, anyone knows how solve it? ~

Spoiler!

[IRJustman]

Originally Posted by Vallard

I'm getting this error when I try run trickster in VB, anyone knows how solve it? ~

Spoiler!

Removed for brevity's sake...

Did you make sure to install the VirtualBox additions while in SAFE mode (in the GUEST os, i.e. the virtualized copy of XP)?

Also, this appears to have been recently rendered academic. I have been able to confirm that the newest releases of Trickster, presently 2.54.1, works just fine under both Windows 7 i386 (32-bit) and Windows 7 x86-64 (64-bit) Windows on three different computers. If you download a fresh installer, you may have to run updates several times. If it's an existing install, one update should work fine. Once it says "2.54.1" or "client is up to date", you should be good to go.

Enjoy.

--IJ.

[seanbro33]

mine says check if graphic driver is the latest and directx for latest
then my direct3d acceleration thingy isnt available

[IRJustman]

Originally Posted by seanbro33

mine says check if graphic driver is the latest and directx for latest
then my direct3d acceleration thingy isnt available

There's your problem right there. There's no Direct3D support loaded.

You need to install the VirtualBox guest additions, and you must do it in safe mode. If you didn't do it at all or did it in normal mode, that will be a problem. Reboot your guest OS and hit F8 and select "Safe Mode". That and make sure you tell it to install the experimental Direct3D support.

Also, if you are running Windows 7, this has been rendered irrelevant (unless you are running a different host OS that VirtualBox supports that has full hardware 3D acceleration (for example, Mac OS X and Linux (I've made it work under Linux))). GameGuard has been removed. Miyuki and I have both confirmed this.

--IJ

[Miyuki]

Well, not just for TO alone, you can actually performs some "experiments" on the virtual OS, like "wreak havoc" on system configurations, or maybe try out some those antivirus software as well [just be careful]

[IRJustman]

Originally Posted by Miyuki

Well, not just for TO alone, you can actually performs some "experiments" on the virtual OS, like "wreak havoc" on system configurations, or maybe try out some those antivirus software as well [just be careful]

Oh, I do that all the time, though most of my normal day-to-day virtualization takes place on two VMware vSphere (formerly known as "ESXi") boxen. I run tests on changes I plan to implement on my main production servers there (plus I run several VMs which handle my e-mail, DNS, routing, and phone system locally). Smaller-scale stuff that doesn't necessarily need to be on the vSphere boxen, I do on my desktop using VB, like putz around with different OSes as well as have a bridge back to a Windows environment if I'm running a Unix-like system as a VM.

That said, I have several "builder" VMs whose sole purpose is for me to make sure crap doesn't break when I go to implement. If it works, great. If it breaks, I can figure out how to fix it to make it work, figuring what kind of "gotchas" might be in store so I can be ready when I do go live with those changes.

And I meant "irrelevant" in that one doesn't have to worry about putzing with Windows XP guest + drivers for Trickster's sake, now that the game can now be played directly under Windows 7 on the (hopefully) "bare metal" of the machine. Virtualization, as you and I astutely observe, is still very handy.