Performance on a virtualized Windows?

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I can tell you that Direct3D won't work great in VMWare. My favourite PC game, Populous the Beginning, can use Direct3D for better graphics but this function does not work in any Windows OS newer than XP. So I have been trying running the game using Direct3D in my Windows XP Professional virtual machine, using the latest version of VMWare workstation with VMWare tools and everything. Games that use Direct3D will keep flickering, as did Populous do. Running the game using no Direct3D made it run perfectly. That brings me to the conclusion that Direct3D support in VMWare isn't very good, actually not good at all.

Have not tested Dolphin using either Direct3D or OpenGL; but if someone gets Direct3D to work in VMware please let me know how you did it so I can hopefully play my favourite game with Direct3D graphics.

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