Minecraft runs fine on my computer, around 100 FPS on maxed settings. I like the look of windows xp, so I got a virtualbox and installed windows xp on it. I can install java and stuff, but when I open up minecraft, it says, "bad video card drivers." anyone know how to fix this/install my graphics card on my normal pc in the vb?
Virtualbox, VMware, virtualPC and XP mode are not meant for this kind of thing. Thus it will not work.
This is because there is no "video card" and there are no "drivers" for it. The game runs and sees that there is no graphic device, so it does not run.
How? I'm running windows xp pro in the vb and it says bad video card drivers when I open and load minecraft.
He means run it normally, without using a VM.
You cannot run minecraft inside a virtual machine.
You cannot run most games inside a virtual machine for that matter.
Even if you could, you shouldn't, most games unless they are a decade old or more, will run like garbage.
It says bad video card drivers because the VM does not have a graphics device, it does not have a video card. Thus, it has no drivers, thus the game does not detect any way to project graphics.
If you like the XP theme so much just use an XP skin on windows 7.
It says bad video card drivers because the VM does not have a graphics device, it does not have a video card. Thus, it has no drivers, thus the game does not detect any way to project graphics.
Virtual Machines have graphics devices. Either they emulate a existing Display Adapter hardware (Microsoft Virtual PC emulates a "S3 Trio" of some sort). Or they 'invent' an adapter. VMWare has "VMWare SVGA II".
I don't know what VirtualBox has. It has supported OpenGL since Version 2.1.0 and I think it's no 4. something or other now.
You do however need to install the drivers. VMWare requires you to install the "VMWare Additions"; these are essentially drivers that and utility software designed to work and interface with VMWare itself to allow things such as dragging back and forth as well as features like unity:
Minecraft will not run in a VM, as you yourself just demonstrated.
You cannot run minecraft inside a virtual machine.
My VirtualBox is an old install and it only has Windows 3.1 as a Guest OS so I don't know what is needed to run MC or other games that use OpenGL/Direct3D under it. However, it sounds to me like the drivers (Guest Additions/Utilities/whatever VirtualBox calls it) aren't installed.
The VirtualBox Guest Additions contain experimental hardware 3D support for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests.[19]
With this feature, if an application inside your virtual machine uses 3D features through the OpenGL or Direct3D 8/9 programming interfaces, instead of emulating them in software (which would be slow), VirtualBox will attempt to use your host's 3D hardware. This works for all supported host platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris), provided that your host operating system can make use of your accelerated 3D hardware in the first place.
I can't find any specifics on VMWare's OpenGL Support but the images above were made with VMWare so evidently they have support at the very least in version 9.
OpenGL and Direct3D have been capable and are well virtualized in most virtualization Software for a while now.
Now I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my installs. VB, VMWare, Virtual PC and XP mode won't run the game when I attempt it, even with guest additions, either the bad video card driver error comes up, or one telling me there is no graphics device, the same goes for other games of varying ages.
I had always assumed it to be a product of the emulation.
Now I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my installs. VB, VMWare, Virtual PC and XP mode won't run the game when I attempt it, even with guest additions, either the bad video card driver error comes up, or one telling me there is no graphics device, the same goes for other games of varying ages.
I had always assumed it to be a product of the emulation.
No clue. Could be an outdated version? Virtual PC and XP Mode not working makes sense though; to my understanding the graphics are virtualized as an "S3 Trio" card, which doesn't have any 3-D capabilities, in Virtual PC. I believe XP Mode is based off of Virtual PC (iirc).
Also it seems there must be some hardware-or host-specific thing, because there are some forum posts on VMWare and VPC forums where people are able to have 3-D on one system but not another and can't figure out why.
Bear in mind that Virtualization != Emulation in all cases. In this case the 3-D capabilities are virtualized- not emulated, which means the Virtualization software is actually passing on the work to the actual hardware. I'm not 100% on it but I think there are even CPU features to assist with this sort of virtualization. This is compared to, for example, "Bochs" which is a full-on x86 Emulator. (I think qemu is as well).
I'm a sad panda because I cannot emulate OS/2. Stupid CPU-Virtualization features not present on Q8200 CPUs....
On an interesting side note: The 'virtualized' copy of Minecraft runs just as fast as the MC on the host OS, surprisingly enough.
No clue. Could be an outdated version? Virtual PC and XP Mode not working makes sense though; to my understanding the graphics are virtualized as an "S3 Trio" card, which doesn't have any 3-D capabilities, in Virtual PC. I believe XP Mode is based off of Virtual PC (iirc).
That makes a bit of sense..... Or well, sort of. I have been able to run some old 3D games on VPC but not XP mode (lego island for example, granted, the VPC I used was win98, not XP like XP mode). Maybe it's 3D support is just severely limited?
Also it seems there must be some hardware-or host-specific thing, because there are some forum posts on VMWare and VPC forums where people are able to have 3-D on one system but not another and can't figure out why.
That could explain it. Even after reinstalling VMware/VBox and the VMs themselves it still is not cooperating. There is no graphics device detected at all.
Bear in mind that Virtualization != Emulation in all cases. -snip-
Is the graphics device not emulated? I should have clarified, I wasn't talking about the VM itself.
I'm a sad panda because I cannot emulate OS/2. Stupid CPU-Virtualization features not present on Q8200 CPUs....
Never too late to upgrade. Though personally I'd wait for Broadwell or later, C2Qs are still alright for what they are.
On an interesting side note: The 'virtualized' copy of Minecraft runs just as fast as the MC on the host OS, surprisingly enough.
Surprising indeed, although MC's performance between different machines in general is very hit or miss for seemingly no reason.
This happened to me with Virtual Box and I just added more video memory. Sadly though the mouse is really ed up so I decided to only use my windows virtual machine for web development tools. (I have a mac)
I still don't understand why you're trying to run it in a VM when you can just run it outside of a VM.
Just to test out the theory though, I installed Java SE Runtime Environment 7 Update 25 on a barebones install of Windows XP Pro SP2 on a VMware VM. Downloaded a fresh Minecraft.exe and Minecraft Launcher 1.2.1 started right up, downloaded everything fine, and then BOOM! Video driver errors.
I clicked the button to try and fix it, and it said the error was because "Pixel Format Not Accelerated" and showed me some steps to find my video manufacturer. It ended up showing VMware, Inc -- VMware SVGA II. So unless you have some crazy workaround to use something other than VMware drivers on a VMware machine, not sure how it would've ran for you.
It's not a theory. "Minecraft should be able to run in a VM" is not theoretical, because it is possible.
I installed Java SE Runtime Environment 7 Update 25 on a barebones install of Windows XP Pro SP2 on a VMware VM
VM->Install VMWare Tools. Seriously. Install the drivers.
and it said the error was because "Pixel Format Not Accelerated" and showed me some steps to find my video manufacturer. It ended up showing VMware, Inc -- VMware SVGA II.
The virtualized/emulated hardware will still report it's name to inspection software. You didn't have the VMWare Driver installed. VMWare doesn't install it magically.
So unless you have some crazy workaround to use something other than VMware drivers on a VMware machine, not sure how it would've ran for you.
The crazy workaround is installing VMWare Tools. I can tell you don't have them installed in the screenshot, since it displays a Notification Icon.
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Virtualbox, VMware, virtualPC and XP mode are not meant for this kind of thing. Thus it will not work.
This is because there is no "video card" and there are no "drivers" for it. The game runs and sees that there is no graphic device, so it does not run.
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How? I'm running windows xp pro in the vb and it says bad video card drivers when I open and load minecraft.
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You cannot run minecraft inside a virtual machine.
You cannot run most games inside a virtual machine for that matter.
Even if you could, you shouldn't, most games unless they are a decade old or more, will run like garbage.
It says bad video card drivers because the VM does not have a graphics device, it does not have a video card. Thus, it has no drivers, thus the game does not detect any way to project graphics.
If you like the XP theme so much just use an XP skin on windows 7.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows xp skin for 7But I too really like how XP looks
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Being he is also not giving any instructions, and not moving the window around, it's pretty obvious this is fabricated.
Don't take everything you see in random youtube videos as fact.
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Doesn't Windows 7 have a built in XP-Emulator/VM?I remember setting C&C First Decade to something like that with a right-click.Edit: It was XP compatability mode.
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Virtual Machines have graphics devices. Either they emulate a existing Display Adapter hardware (Microsoft Virtual PC emulates a "S3 Trio" of some sort). Or they 'invent' an adapter. VMWare has "VMWare SVGA II".
I don't know what VirtualBox has. It has supported OpenGL since Version 2.1.0 and I think it's no 4. something or other now.
You do however need to install the drivers. VMWare requires you to install the "VMWare Additions"; these are essentially drivers that and utility software designed to work and interface with VMWare itself to allow things such as dragging back and forth as well as features like unity:
My VirtualBox is an old install and it only has Windows 3.1 as a Guest OS so I don't know what is needed to run MC or other games that use OpenGL/Direct3D under it. However, it sounds to me like the drivers (Guest Additions/Utilities/whatever VirtualBox calls it) aren't installed.
VirtualBox, from here:
I can't find any specifics on VMWare's OpenGL Support but the images above were made with VMWare so evidently they have support at the very least in version 9.
OpenGL and Direct3D have been capable and are well virtualized in most virtualization Software for a while now.
I had always assumed it to be a product of the emulation.
No clue. Could be an outdated version? Virtual PC and XP Mode not working makes sense though; to my understanding the graphics are virtualized as an "S3 Trio" card, which doesn't have any 3-D capabilities, in Virtual PC. I believe XP Mode is based off of Virtual PC (iirc).
Also it seems there must be some hardware-or host-specific thing, because there are some forum posts on VMWare and VPC forums where people are able to have 3-D on one system but not another and can't figure out why.
Bear in mind that Virtualization != Emulation in all cases. In this case the 3-D capabilities are virtualized- not emulated, which means the Virtualization software is actually passing on the work to the actual hardware. I'm not 100% on it but I think there are even CPU features to assist with this sort of virtualization. This is compared to, for example, "Bochs" which is a full-on x86 Emulator. (I think qemu is as well).
I'm a sad panda because I cannot emulate OS/2. Stupid CPU-Virtualization features not present on Q8200 CPUs....
On an interesting side note: The 'virtualized' copy of Minecraft runs just as fast as the MC on the host OS, surprisingly enough.
That could explain it. Even after reinstalling VMware/VBox and the VMs themselves it still is not cooperating. There is no graphics device detected at all.
Is the graphics device not emulated? I should have clarified, I wasn't talking about the VM itself.
Never too late to upgrade. Though personally I'd wait for Broadwell or later, C2Qs are still alright for what they are.
Surprising indeed, although MC's performance between different machines in general is very hit or miss for seemingly no reason.
Pretty sure that was proven false later on, particularly in my post that shows Minecraft running in a VM.
Just to test out the theory though, I installed Java SE Runtime Environment 7 Update 25 on a barebones install of Windows XP Pro SP2 on a VMware VM. Downloaded a fresh Minecraft.exe and Minecraft Launcher 1.2.1 started right up, downloaded everything fine, and then BOOM! Video driver errors.
I clicked the button to try and fix it, and it said the error was because "Pixel Format Not Accelerated" and showed me some steps to find my video manufacturer. It ended up showing VMware, Inc -- VMware SVGA II. So unless you have some crazy workaround to use something other than VMware drivers on a VMware machine, not sure how it would've ran for you.
It's not a theory. "Minecraft should be able to run in a VM" is not theoretical, because it is possible.
VM->Install VMWare Tools. Seriously. Install the drivers.
The virtualized/emulated hardware will still report it's name to inspection software. You didn't have the VMWare Driver installed. VMWare doesn't install it magically.
The crazy workaround is installing VMWare Tools. I can tell you don't have them installed in the screenshot, since it displays a Notification Icon.