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GamerE Korthos Resident Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 13 Joined: Mar 15^th, 2015	DDO under VirtualBox Mar 19^th, 2015 at 7:55pm	Print Post
	Has anyone run DDO in a VirtualBox? I am attempting and when I run DDO, I get the login screen. After I log in and choose my server, I get the error: Could not initialize Direct3D. Please ensure that DirectX9.0c [Dec 2005] or higher is installed. [105] Now, when I run a DxDiag on my virtual machine, it shows that I am running DirectX11. Under VirtualBox settings for this VM, I have enabled 2D and 3D, given the virtual video card 164M RAM (out of 256 Total). I have also installed the Extension Pack, and tried enabling the 3D in that is optional therein, both answering "Yes" and "No" as the second option. And yes, installing in safe mode to boot. This is all on the latest version of VBox - 4.3.26-98988. As for the OS for the VM, I am running Win7x64Pro, all SPs are up to date, MS Security Essentials and DDO. That is ALL that is installed on this VM. Any help or recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!


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Arkat Chonus Christ Offline Hola Bienvenido Posts: 12345 Location: Wyoming Joined: Jul 13^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: DDO under VirtualBox Reply #1 - Mar 19^th, 2015 at 9:00pm	Print Post
	You MUST have DirectX 9.0c installed. It doesn't matter whether you use it when playing, you still have to have it. It acts as a "default" for the game in case there's a problem with any later version of DirectX.
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GamerE Korthos Resident Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 13 Joined: Mar 15^th, 2015	Re: DDO under VirtualBox Reply #2 - Mar 20^th, 2015 at 8:46am	Print Post
	Thanks, I will try that. I am having to rebuild the VM from scratch. So, while doing that I have 1 more question. do you know if I need to install the extra 3-d ability via the extension pack or is enabling the 2D and 3D under the normal settings enough to get DDO to run? Thanks again!


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Arkat Chonus Christ Offline Hola Bienvenido Posts: 12345 Location: Wyoming Joined: Jul 13^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: DDO under VirtualBox Reply #3 - Mar 20^th, 2015 at 10:54am	Print Post
	GamerE wrote on Mar 20^th, 2015 at 8:46am: Thanks, I will try that.� I am having to rebuild the VM from scratch.� So, while doing that I have 1 more question. do you know if I need to install the extra 3-d ability via the extension pack or is enabling the 2D and 3D under the normal settings enough to get DDO to run?� Thanks again! I do not know. All I can tell you is that when I installed DDO, I installed the version with the Hi-Res stuff. This was not in a Virtual Machine though so I do not know exactly what you must install beyond the normal DDO Client and DirectX 9.0c.

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noamineo Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline All men fear time, but time fears the pyramids Posts: 9183 Location: Titan Joined: Jul 2^nd, 2014	Re: DDO under VirtualBox Reply #4 - Mar 20^th, 2015 at 11:15am	Print Post
	I'm always very curious about running games inside VMs(when I was screwing around with it, this wasn't possible) so if you get it running, please share!

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ElAndroide Korthos Resident Offline I Love ... Experiments!! Posts: 26 Joined: Apr 10^th, 2014	Re: DDO under VirtualBox Reply #5 - Mar 20^th, 2015 at 1:25pm	Print Post
	First of all, I haven't used virtualbox. At far as I know, the game needs a minimum of graphic memory to run, and that might be the error you are seeing. I think Windows 7 and windows 8 runs some kind of DirectX version on its core, so, if DirectX is not running ... well, this could be a problem on that graphic memory not enough. Remember to check if the virtual graphic adapter is not the typical 16mb memory. For example, in VMWare Workstation you can tune how much to apply to the virtual graphic adapter, to, let's say 512MB of RAM video, and with that ... you can run DDO. If you can't get working virtualbox, try with workstation.


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noamineo Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline All men fear time, but time fears the pyramids Posts: 9183 Location: Titan Joined: Jul 2^nd, 2014	Re: DDO under VirtualBox Reply #6 - Mar 20^th, 2015 at 3:29pm	Print Post
	Is VMware workstation free? I haven't messed around with it, just did VB.

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ElAndroide Korthos Resident Offline I Love ... Experiments!! Posts: 26 Joined: Apr 10^th, 2014	Re: DDO under VirtualBox Reply #7 - Mar 22^nd, 2015 at 11:54am	Print Post
	It is not. But, as far as I know, if you register on vmware web, you can get a free trial of 30 days. You can try if this is working for you, and get a full version serial on google/your preferred torrent portal.


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Osharan Tregarth Horoluth Raider Offline I'm an ass... Deal with it. Posts: 2663 Location: Fresno Joined: Aug 23^rd, 2011 Gender:	Re: DDO under VirtualBox Reply #8 - Mar 24^th, 2015 at 4:02pm	Print Post
	noamineo wrote on Mar 20^th, 2015 at 3:29pm: Is VMware workstation free? I haven't messed around with it, just did VB. VMWare workstation isn't free, but the VMWare player is(for non-business purposes). I'm not sure if it would meet your needs or not though.

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