mazzortock on 29/12/2008 at 23:12
I've seen the news about the support of the 3D hardware acceleration (openGL) for the Virtualisation software Virtualbox ( (
http://www.virtualbox.org) www.virtualbox.org ). Someone tried Thief under a WindowsXP virtualized?
I found this news very interesting because i have my machine with a dualboot: i use Ubuntu for everyday purpose and my work, and the partition with Windows *only* to play the games not supported under Wine. The bad news is that Thief it's not supported well on Wine, so a virtualized OS can be a good, cool and clean alternative to avoid this damned dualboot option. The good news is that for the future Thief generation, we have the great DarkMod that is perfectly compatible with Linux (Doom 3 Engine) :cheeky:
Some taffer there has passed some test about these new possibilities for the LinuxUsers?
It's there any other taffer interested like me on the play Thief1/2 on a Linux machine?
eddy on 30/12/2008 at 09:24
Thief runs fine with wine for me (using wine 1.1.10)
Snakebite on 30/12/2008 at 11:10
Why don't you add Thief 3 to the poll?
jay pettitt on 30/12/2008 at 22:29
Quote Posted by eddy
Thief runs fine with wine for me (using wine 1.1.10)
what he said.
sNeaksieGarrett on 31/12/2008 at 00:25
Quote:
I've seen the news about the support of the 3D hardware acceleration (openGL) for the Virtualisation software Virtualbox ( (
www.virtualbox.org) ). Someone tried Thief under a WindowsXP virtualized?
But thief is D3d not OpenGL.:confused:
Griffin Bain on 30/1/2009 at 00:12
thief 1 ans 2 ran well for me on ubuntu 8.04 but dromed ran like piss and I could not add patches or the ddfix patch even after trying every terminal command ever posted on this site or the ubuntu site. I had wine 1.5 or something, pretty recent but I've had to swithc back over to XP sp2 in order to use a tv card so I can use dromed now. I think I will look into virtual box in the furture
lost_soul on 21/7/2009 at 16:53
I gave this a shot yesterday, and it didn't fly. There were two problems I encountered:
The first was that I had to disable the mouse integration, or the game would become unresponsive in the menus. I couldn't even load a mission to see if it ran, until...
I disabled the integration and the menus worked fine. When I tried to start a mission though, the game just hung. I have not found a solution for this. I tried using software and hardware (D3d) rendering, but it always just hung.
I wonder... should we report this to Sun as a bug? I know they don't make bundles of cash from businesses running games in a VM. They *HAVE* included D3D and OpenGL support though, so perhaps they'd be interested in fixing it.
Just for the hell of it, I downloaded the ut99 demo and tried it in D3D mode in the VM and it worked. I am now downloading the Thief 3 demo to see if it will run in the vm.
bikerdude on 16/8/2009 at 15:14
Has anyone instaled Vbox under windows Xp/Vista(host), then install Xp(guest) and then tried to get T2 to run.... Ive gotten as far as thief telling me the gfx card isnt compatible..
Ive seen screenshots of Vbox under a windows host running max payne 1(Im downloading the demo now...) on a WinXp3 guest, so if it can do that then it should bne able to play T2...!?
See the thread on vbox forum - (
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21350)
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lost_soul on 17/8/2009 at 00:22
I just tried Deadly shadows in Virtualbox again. It starts up, goes to the main menu, and then promptly dies. The sound just repeats its self and I cannot even see the "new game" option to test the performance. I'll bet this has to do with the same bug that affects T1/2 in virtualbox. Menus in games don't seem to work for some reason.
Also, if you want to test the D3D support, you have to install the guest additions in safe mode. Installing them through normal means does not install D3D support (only opengl). I know I've got the D3D working, because I ran Sonic Adventure DX in there to test it. I also ran Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force (opengl) and that worked too.
