[NTLUG:Discuss] VMware 5.0 (linux) supports DirectX in a Windows guest

[brad angelcyk]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

Try VDMSound out.  I know it is basically for sound, but it got a lot
of my old DOS games working (fixed graphics problems too) under 2000
and XP back before I switched.

Brad


On 4/19/05, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> It actually works pretty good.  But like wine it's limited to
> pretty much DirectX 7 for the most part.  Unlike wine, it
> will pretty much handle anything that is purely DirectX 7.
> 
> I have some games that do weird DOS-isms... that won't
> work.. but that might be an XP thing.
> 
> VMware timing problems prevent being able to run all
> of 3Dmark2001, but you might have better fortune on that
> than I (it's pretty configuration dependent).
> 
> My daughter has a copy of LEGO Island2 that I used as
> my test... it ran flawlessly.
> 
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