Virtual Machine with full Direct 3D support?

synnchan · Jul 17, 2015

I want to run a game that needs Direct 3D inside a virtual machine. Here is the system requirements for it:

System Requirements said:
OS
Windows XP/2000 or higher (requires DirectX)
CPU
Pentium 1.5GHz or higher
Main Memory
256MB or more
Graphics
Direct3D-compatible video card faster than VRAM64MB
Sound
Environment that supports Direct Sound
Free space during installation
350MB or more

This is my VM's information. (I use VirtualBox)

This is my host PC's information.

As you can see, I have more than enough power to run this particular game. But the only thing that's preventing it from working on the VM is the Direct 3D. VirtualBox's Direct 3D support is only experimental, so it's pretty bugged and D3D 7 isn't even supported at all. (The game works 100% perfectly at full speed on my host PC, though)

But I need to make it work in a VM because I want to do a few things with it. So I was wondering... is there any Virtual Machine with full Direct 3D support? I've heard about something called "VGA passthrough" or whatever, but I don't even know how it works. I'm also willing to pay for a VM that is able to do what I want if necessary.

So that's it. Can someone help me?

jimmysmitty · Jul 17, 2015

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualization-3d-support-vmware.html

I suggest reading that and looking into VMWare. From what I know VMWare is the best. In fact we use it for our servers at my work and are able to create full sets of hardware in them.

synnchan · Jul 18, 2015

Two questions:

1) Does VMWare have a Dynamic HDD option as well? VirtualBox has this. It's basically an HDD that expands automatically whenever necessary, instead of having a fixed size. This is pretty important for me.

2) Are you ACTUALLY sure that VMWare's Direct 3D support is really reliable? VirtualBox can emulate D3D 9 and D3D 8 (somewhat bugged), but it fails on the D3D 7 test. I just want to make sure VMWare will pass on all Direct 3D tests (D3D 7, D3D 8 and D3D 9).

jimmysmitty · Jul 20, 2015

For Dynamic HDDs:

https://communities.vmware.com/message/2307574

For the D3D, according to the article the version of GPU was equal to a Geforce 2/4 and a Geforce 2 supports D3D7. I have no way of saying 100% yes it will work for D3D 7, you are asking to emulate a very old D3D standard. I just know that VMWare is one of the better VM setups out there.

gamerk316 · Jul 20, 2015

I believe VMWare has support for HW based Direct X now. I think everything up to DX11 is supported. Might just be for workstations though.

EDIT

http://pubs.vmware.com/fusion-7/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.fusion.help.doc%2FGUID-C0E9FDAC-BC40-4A6B-8940-013597CA5E5B.html

jimmysmitty · Jul 20, 2015

^I was going to say I just saw an article showing support for DX11 has finally come to VMware.

As I said, VMWare is one of the most used VM products by IT professionals. It gets a lot of love.

synnchan · Jul 21, 2015

@gamerk316:

Isn't this VMWare Fusion 7 just for Mac OS X? My OS is Windows 7 64 bits. Will it work here?

jimmysmitty · Jul 21, 2015

Yea Fusion is for Mac but then again what would you need a VM with DX11 support for? You need older D3D levels which should be possible in the current VMWare for Windows.

synnchan · Jul 30, 2015

Can you point me to the download link of the version I should get? Because it seems that they have so many products I'm confused on what I need.

jimmysmitty · Aug 1, 2015

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/7_0

I think that is the version you need. There are a lot of them in there. I have never personally used it, the closest I ever got was using Microsoft's Hyper-V.

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