Dangerous Waters and Virtual Box

[zakarpatska]

Hi All,

Does anyone have "Dangerous Waters" running under Virtual Box? When trying to run "Dangerous Waters" in a Virtual XP machine I get the following error messages:

"Failed to initialize the graphics display" and then "Context Create Error : -2147467259"

Does anyone know what these error messages mean and if it is possible to resolve them? Any help would be appreciated.

I have "688i" installed on the same virtual XP machine and it works fine.

Thanks.

[Krabb]

Try setting color depth to 16-bit in VirtualBox. Do you have Guest Additions installed?

[Pisces]

Dangerous Waters requires accelerated graphic hardware with 64MB video ram, and DirectX 9.0b. Straight from Sonalyst (http://www.sonalystscombatsims.com/dangerous_waters/sysreqs.html)


According to the Virtual Box manual (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.12/UserManual.pdf), page 39:

Graphics. the VirtualBox graphics device (sometimes referred to as VGA device) is, unlike
nearly all other emulated devices, not based on any physical counterpart. It is a simple,
synthetic device which provides compatibility with standard VGA and several extended
registers used by VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE).

So, it's pretty basic simulated hardware. I think that was all that i688 needed back in those days.

[Pisces]

:oops: Well I guess I'm wrong somehow. I forgot I responded there.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=159671&highlight=Virtual+Box

[Krabb]

You forgot about experimental features: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-3d.

[zakarpatska]

Hi All,

Thanks for the replies. I do have "Dangerous Waters" working now in VirtualBox using the guest additions. As reported in the other thread it is quite slow however and when I try to change the resolution of the game to 1024x768 the the VirtualBox machine crashes. :-(

On the brighter side I tried the VirtualBox 4.0 Beta 3 and the performance with D3D was better than the current release of VirutalBox, but still too slow to be playable.

I guess I'll keep chasing the VirtualBox Betas and hope for a dramatic performance improvement.

Thanks,
Zakarpatska