Does my graphic card support shader model 3.0
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Because in a virtual machine, there is no real hardware and the graphics card is virtualized. What I wanted to see is how GPU Caps Viewer works in the virtual machine.
#DOES MY GRAPHIC CARD SUPPORT SHADER MODEL 3.0 WINDOWS#
My host machine is an AMD X2 3800+ / 2Gb RAM / GeForce GTX 280 + ForceWare 190.15 / Windows XP SP2 32-bit. To understand what VirtualBox 3.0 brings in OpenGL, I started my experimentations with the previous stable release: VirtualBox 2.2.4. – Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests – Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental) – Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only) Here are the main features of VirtualBox 3.0: More exactly, VirtualBox 3.0 supports OpenGL 2.0 and Direct3D 8. Wait a minute… why did I decide to test VirtualBox? Because all news claimed VirtualBox 3.0 BETA has now an improved… OpenGL support.
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Your physical computer is called the host, while the virtual machine is called the guest.
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What does it mean? With VirtualBox, you can run unmodified operating systems (including all softwares installed on these operating systems) directly on top of your existing operating system, in a special environment called a virtual machine. VirtualBox is a virtualization technology for x86 hardware. VirtualBox is a virtual machine like the famous VMware or VirtualPC (although VirtualPC seems to be limited to run different Windows versions in Windows). And until yesterday I didn’t know this software. VirtualBox… Since somes days, the web is flooded with news about the new major version of VirtualBox (3.0 beta).