Emulation: 3d Mark 2001 running on VMWare 5.5

3d benchmarking on VMWare 5.5
Host system 3.4Ghz Pentium IV with 2Gb ram and AGP Nvidia 6600GT graphics card running Windows XP
Client running Windows XP (with Vista theme) and 512Mb ram

Unlocking 3D hardware from within a virtual machine is very possible and has been implemented more or less in various VM software packages.

For VMWare add the following to the configuration (.vmx) file for the virtual machine:
mks.enable3d = TRUE
svga.vramSize = 67108864
vmmouse.present = FALSE

-Virtual Box supports 3D openGL acceleration on Linux guests but your Linux distro needs to be compatible with the 'extras' you need to install.
-VMWare supports D3D to a certain extend on Windows XP guests - I've actually made a couple of old videos showing this off. I've got an older version of 3D Mark up and running and also the game Need for Speed Hot persuit. There are quite a bit of graphics errors but it is definitely hardware accelerated. In order to 'activate' the 3D support you needed to edit one of the configuration files of a specific Virtual Machine running XP. It is cumbersome and not very compatible still. On the Mac side 3D support is more solid but I haven't run VMWare on Mac for a while.
-Virtual PC doesn't support any hardware acceleration whatsoever.
-On the Mac there's Parallels which does support 3D hardware acceleration to a greater extend actually allowing you to run games accelerated either in a Window or full screen.
-Wine / Crossover / Cider - implementations of Windows32 API allowing Linux, OSX and other OS-es running on x86 cpus to execute Windows applications. On the Macintosh Crossover games really does a great job directX 9 support D3D. Quite a few steam games actually run on Crossover Games. Games like Halflife, Outrun2006 run great. Also another Windows based racing game Toca3 runs great this way. Need for Speed hot persuit also functions rather well.
-DOSBox - great way to run older dos games. It is even possible to install Windows 3.1x and run games on it - provided you install the right drivers. I've made a little video on that as well. It is also possible to get Windows95 up and running albeit very very buggy. Made a video about that as well - quite a while ago with a link to a website providing all the information to get people started (Vogons).

So you don't necessarily need virtual machines in order to play 'older games'. There's quite a bit of software out there that might suit your needs.

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[thegumoletta]

no meu amd athlon 1.6 single core com 2gb ram ddr2 800 e com a ati radeon hd 3200 fica com o dobro de fps do que a sua 6600 usando configuração low. aqui em high definition 1366X768 tudo no high e com aa em 4x fica em torno de 60 fps no primeiro trste(da caminhonete q passa no meio das pernas do robo)

[markvergeer]

@thegumoletta Muito bom! Deve ser a ATI-card!

[UberWolfGeist]

whats the name of the truck game?

[markvergeer]

@UberWolfGeist It is not a game it is part of the 3D Mark demo simulating a game!

[UberWolfGeist]

what's the name of that game with the red car????

[markvergeer]

@UberWolfGeist There's no real games in this 3D Mark benchmark program just approximations of a game.

[markvergeer]

Could very well be - 3D support was at the early stages when I made the video (2 years ago). Todays Virtual machine-solutions are much faster and most modern day cpus support hardware virtualization creating an even faster performance.

Parallels on Mac

VMWare on Windows are prime examples that today will give a more solid performance. I'm able to play Geometry Wars at full speed on a 2.4Ghz Core2Duo on Parallels running Windows7 within a Virtual machine on Snow Leopard.

[HatlabuFarkas]

lo0ks like pentium 1 with an voodoo 3 3000 agp

[TheDADDY20007]

he says he gets 3927..

The liar only got 3926.....

lol..

[drifter198807]

god... if that's an old game machine (3.4 gig processor?!) then mine must be ancient, lol