![]() ![]() My hat is off to the people who code \wine, but they are scrambling just to keep pace with MS on a handful of office applications that require next to no special software technology, and they are doing it the hard way by trying to actually replace the MS executable code. We may all be dead and gone before Wine can run contemporary level DirectX anything. Thus it is not yet possible to run Alibre within Virtualbox.įorget about Wine. ![]() VirtuualBox has recently succeeded in achieving significant support for DirectX 8 and 9, but fails in DirectX 7. VMWare 7 is specified to support Windows 7, so I think it is reasonable to assume that support of whatever DirectX level is found in Windows 7 is, or will be, supported. Only VMWare has succeeded in providing support for DirectX 7,8,9 and (Guessing, since I managed to avoid Vista) 10. ![]() Of course, Microsoft gets the credit when this works and the graphics system provider gets the blame when it does not. Alibre also worked with VMWare 6.5 and XP.īecause Alibre is a graphics and calculation intensive application there is a noticeable performance hit, probably due in equal parts to the fact that the program is being executed by a virtual (simulated) computer and that it makes heavy use of DirectX 3D calls which require optimized support from your (in this case also virtual) graphics system driver.Īs I understand it, Microsoft forces the graphics card vendor to provide the meat of the code used to execute DirectX functions and procedures as part of its driver, if they want to be able to handle programs that use DirectX. I frequently run Alibre 12.1 on Linux (Suse 11.1, but the particular flavor is not especially critical) using VMWare 7 to run XP.
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