Virtual Machines and armada

posted on September 15th, 2008, 10:02 am

hi all i have installed a XP VM on my vista laptop but i can not play armada 2 on it keeps coming up with it not detecting a directx device is there away to sort this

posted on September 15th, 2008, 11:44 am

Ehrm... maybe try to install DirectX on your VM?

posted on September 15th, 2008, 1:41 pm

thanks installed directX but still failed

the error message is :

Star Trek Armada II:Initialization Failed

Graphics Initialization failed. No compatible Direct3D8 hardware accellerator detected.

posted on September 15th, 2008, 2:02 pm

i think the VMWare virtual grafikcard does not support DirectX Acceleration.

But lets try this: Have you installed the VMWare Tools or only a Standart VGA Card (take a look in the Hardware Manager of your VM to see that)

If their is a standart VGA Card, install the VMWare Tools

Also you can check your Graficcard with dxdiag and see if its supports 3D.

posted on September 15th, 2008, 2:49 pm

hi blade
please check the technical support section and look at my topic
i have shown people how to fix it with vista
cheers
paul

posted on September 15th, 2008, 2:57 pm

is your fix for fo3pr or fo2 because i'm trying to get fo2 working

posted on September 15th, 2008, 3:02 pm

its for the latest version

posted on September 15th, 2008, 3:04 pm

ah thx already got fo3pr working but thx for your help

[Anonymous]

posted on September 15th, 2008, 7:03 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on September 16th, 2008, 8:50 am, edited 1 time in total.

ok i got FObeta2 working on Vista but the noxter AI will not work

EDIT

ok got the noxter AI working all good