Hello I've installed windows 7 in Sun's xVM VirtualBox.I keep running into a problem when i try to run FFXI The lag time sucks. I also have XP installed in it too and I have no problems But I'm getting off the subject. windows7 boots fine I can surf the net play the games that came installed on itbut whenit comes to FFXI it lagsand the sound is chopy the screen takes forever to load and it dont load right if it ever do load. Also I've installed the Sims 2 base game and it wont even load dose anyone have this problem or had the problem and if so how did u fix it Yours Truly Darkfirelion02

Did you install the guest additions for the Virtual Machine? Also, DirectX is not support as part of the 3D acceleration of Virtual Box. Only OpenLG. See Here.Joe

yes i installed the guest additions. Also i did not know that direct x was not supported as part of the 3d acceleration. Is there a virtual machine that has DirectX 3d support? Or is openLG one? thank you for your help

By "guest additions" are you talking about the "Integration Services Setup Disk?"Since everything seemed to work I didn't think Integration Services was necessary.

i believe vmware supports directx9.0c but it's also not free. did you say you can run ffxi in winxp as virtualbox guest? because it still wouln't support directx. i use winxp host to play games and use VMs to setup test environments were 3d is not necessary.

Darkfirelion02 said: yes i installed the guest additions. Also i did not know that direct x was not supported as part of the 3d acceleration. Is there a virtual machine that has DirectX 3d support? Or is openLG one? thank you for your help The latest version of VMware Workstation 6.5.x (not free) and VMware Player 2.5.x (free) supports guests using DirectX 9c on both Windows and Linux hosts.