v1.1b DirectX 9 graphics - post your results here

[aanhorn]

Has anyone tested out any games yet with the new DirectX 9 experimental support? Post your results here -

Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind - loads and runs with choppy sound, displays turns black when you enter first building.

Resident Evil 4 : loads and runs with graphic corruption (pretty much unplayable)

Hundred Swords : loads and runs like a charm

tested on a 20" C2D iMac (late 2006), Radeon x1600 256mb, Windows XP Pro SP2

[aliasme]

Does this support Aero in Vista?

I'll assume no since there is no shader support.

What version of DX 9.0 specifically?

Thanks!

[aanhorn]

Aero requires DX 9.0L and shader support

Fusion supports DX 9.0 without shaders

Fusion doesn't support any graphics acceleration in Vista VMs in any case

so no Aero, yet.

[SMB1]

FFXI doesn't crash fusion any more.

Textures are too messed up to run the game though, but it's getting better.

[resistor]

Guild Wars changes resolution and then crashes VMWare Fusion 1.1b. It works, with significant graphical issues, when passing it the flag to force use of DirectX 8.

[Pat_Lee]

This is a great thread to start. One thing that would be helpful for us to know at VMware for each post:

1) Mac used

2) Graphics card in the Mac

3) Guest OS and version (XP SP2, ...)

Pat

[resistor]

My Guild Wars experience was on a Mac Pro with a Radeon X1900, running the most recent Leopard seed. The guest operating system was XP SP2.

[admin]

It might also be good to turn this into a open document with formatting similar to the following:

Application (Version)	Mac type (graphics card)	Notes

Possibly sorted into Working/Working with Issues/Not Working tables

As an open document, everyone could edit it and it'd be easier to glance over instead of reading through a bunch of messages.

[vonbrownz]

I don't see an option to enable DX9 in settings. All it has is DX8. An XNA game will compile but not run. "No suitable device found". Maybe because I don't have DX9 enabled?

MacBook Pro Core Duo 256MB ATI 1600

[admin]

The explanatory text got overlooked; experimental 3D support is for DX9. You need to update Tools, of course.

[stevex]

Sims Life Stories still doesn't work - same problem as before, red glowing walls. The game actually works quite well, except for this one graphic glitch, but it's a big glitch.

[admin]

It'd be nice if we could all put information into one document:

[Mr__Macwin]

CITY OF HEROES and CITY OF VILLIANS still crash with refs to vid card errors on Intel iMac. We wait and hope.