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C Jkr · 11-12-2008, 10:36 AM

Sigh. I guess people are not really understanding the original poster's point. The point is that the place he bought the game from is actively forbidding him through their code from even *trying* to run the game under a VM.

This is far from saying that the games are not supported. And let me also state, that I am successfully running many adventure games from the late 90s (Broken Sword, Blade Runner) under VMWare Fusion. When VMWare Fusion says it supports DirectX 9, remember that DirectX is a set of COM interfaces and is therefore always backwards compatible at least at the binary level. So those games that were written for DirectX 5 should at the very least succeed in their API calls to DirectX 5 interfaces, even running on a DirectX 9 card.

So yeah, to the OP, this is highly annoying and it's even worse that they failed to mention this. If I bought it on credit card I would have contested the purchase.

So now for the big question, does the AdventureGamer shop also have this restriction? It would be a true shame. I've had a lot of success running even DX 8 games under VMWare Fusion.

11-12-2008, 10:36 AM	#7
C Jkr Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 30	Sigh. I guess people are not really understanding the original poster's point. The point is that the place he bought the game from is actively forbidding him through their code from even trying to run the game under a VM. This is far from saying that the games are not supported. And let me also state, that I am successfully running many adventure games from the late 90s (Broken Sword, Blade Runner) under VMWare Fusion. When VMWare Fusion says it supports DirectX 9, remember that DirectX is a set of COM interfaces and is therefore always backwards compatible at least at the binary level. So those games that were written for DirectX 5 should at the very least succeed in their API calls to DirectX 5 interfaces, even running on a DirectX 9 card. So yeah, to the OP, this is highly annoying and it's even worse that they failed to mention this. If I bought it on credit card I would have contested the purchase. So now for the big question, does the AdventureGamer shop also have this restriction? It would be a true shame. I've had a lot of success running even DX 8 games under VMWare Fusion.