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Accelerated 3-D Limitations

Experimental support for Direct3D applies only to Windows 2000 and Windows XP guests, on hosts running Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Linux.

Experimental support has the following limitations:

  • Workstation accelerates DirectX 8 applications, and DirectX 9 applications that use only the subset of DirectX 8.
  • Support for 3-D applications is not optimized for performance.
  • OpenGL applications run in software emulation mode.

    • Not all aspects of 3-D acceleration are enabled. The following 3-D features are not accelerated:

  • Pixel and vertex shaders
  • Multiple vertex streams
  • Hardware bump-mapping, environment mapping
  • Projected textures
  • Textures with one, three, or four dimensions

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