Not able to run games in Windows

[kunalyadav]

I have installed Need for speed game in my windows XP (VMware fussion ) on my MAC X 10.5.4 , But as soon as try to run this game it says "Unknown problem initializing Graphics"

When I go to Desktop properties

Display Properties --> Setting --> Advance --> Adapter It shows Adapter type as "VMware SVGA II"

Please help me how can run games in windows .

[asatoran]

The video card in the virtual machine will always be a SVGA II video card. So your OS is detecting correctly. Have you installed VMWare Tools? This will give you the proper drivers for the virtual video card. And make sure 3D acceleration is enabled in the virtual machine settings.

If that doesn't work, then realize that video performance in a virtual maching is not going to equal a physical machine. Take a look at about 3/4 way down in the section on virtual hardware.

[Technogeezer · Accepted solution]

Virtual machines have a virtual graphics adapter of VMware SVGA II and have no direct access to graphics cards or hardware graphics acceleration - see for details on why.

What is probably happening is that Fusion's virtual graphics adapter is not providing the DirectX support that your game needs. Check the game's hardware requirements to see what graphics hardware it requires.

There is experimental support in Fusion for DirectX 9.0 (without shaders) which may allow some games to run. If your game requires DirectX 9.0c or higher, though, you may be unable to run it under Fusion. Your alternative is to install Windows under Boot Camp and run your game while booting natively into Windows.