Comments on: VirtualBox is pretty awesome

By: shabtronic

shabtronic — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:33:48 +0000

you need to take ownership of the d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll files before u can raise the permissions. it’s done the same way – i.e. right click->Properties->Advanced->Owner->Edit click on your user then apply. Then ok all the dialogs and u can right click again to raise permissions.

By: Micah

Micah — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:46:01 +0000

I’ve tried following these steps, but was unable to raise permissions for d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll…?? Any thoughts?

By: Your name (required)xxx

Your name (required)xxx — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:57:01 +0000

In x64 win 7 something went wrong… some programs (like dxdiag) just throw me “Error: could not load BLAHBLAH.dll” … and I noticed that wined3d did not place its .dll files into system32 like its output

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:40:32 +0000

Just for those, who might get stuck with it. If you cannot change permissions to full (greyed out) you have to switch the owner via the advnaced settings button.

By: Kael

Kael — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:22:11 +0000

WineD3D allows you to run hardware-accelerated Direct3D applications inside the emulated OS, like games and 3D modeling tools. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good.

By: Tabor

Tabor — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:22:23 +0000

I just installed Virtual Box on a MacBook Pro today and I am running Windows XP and XUbuntu on it. What is the purpose of installing WineD3D?