Performance on a virtualized Windows?

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Well VMWare Player is giving me a much friendlier experience. I installed my Windows XP Professional in both VirtualBox and VMWare, and VMWare's Windows XP was way better in graphics and screen resolution. Could just be because it uses other settings, I don't know (does not have to mean VMWare is better). Populous the Beginning 3D went flickering on both so it does not make quite a difference for my Direct3D usage.

@AnyOldName3: Populous the Beginning does require DirectX 6.0 or higher, whether you use hardware (Direct3D) or software acceleration. I run Populous the Beginning Software on DirectX 11. Works fine. I understand that it is confusing when host and virtual OS use different DirectX, yet I don't fully understand your explanation (I still am and will be a newbie, sorry). Don't know myself where Populous' problems with Direct3D lie. I read on the Populous Reincarnated forum that it a has to do with newer graphics cards, and that depending on the card, using a few other .dll files fix the Direct3D problem. So yeah, it probably uses an older version of Direct3D. Now I want to know if it would work with VMWare if the hosts also uses ancient Direct3D .

@Gir: Populous the Beginning 3D does not work in Windows 8, just as some other old games I have for the PC (still have my very very old Windows 98 computer with Intel Pentium 4 863 MHz and 512 MB RAM ).

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