Dangerous Waters and Virtual Box
 

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.

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

Dangerous Waters requires accelerated graphic hardware with 64MB video ram, and DirectX 9.0b. Straight from Sonalyst


According to the Virtual Box manual, page 39:

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

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

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ht=Virtual+Box

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

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