Dangerous Waters and Virtual Box

zakarpatska · 12-08-10, 09:40 PM

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 · 12-14-10, 11:09 AM

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

Pisces · 12-14-10, 06:11 PM

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:

Quote:

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 · 12-14-10, 06:13 PM

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

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

Krabb · 12-16-10, 01:10 PM

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

zakarpatska · 12-18-10, 06:03 PM

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

12-08-10, 09:40 PM	#1
zakarpatska Loader Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 88 Downloads: 127 Uploads: 0	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.

12-14-10, 06:13 PM	#4
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	Well I guess I'm wrong somehow. I forgot I responded there. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ht=Virtual+Box __________________ My site downloads: https://ricojansen.nl/downloads

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12-14-10, 11:09 AM	#2
Krabb Navy Dude Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 172 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Try setting color depth to 16-bit in VirtualBox. Do you have Guest Additions installed?

12-16-10, 01:10 PM	#5
Krabb Navy Dude Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 172 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	You forgot about experimental features: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-3d.

12-18-10, 06:03 PM	#6
zakarpatska Loader Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 88 Downloads: 127 Uploads: 0	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