VPC 2007 and video drivers

After installing VPC2007 under WinXPPro and installing Win98SE on the VPC, my
virtual BIOS won't even let me use the AGP card on my motherboard - leaves me
with a 4MB video memory (a generic Trident video driver)... how can I
install the Win98SE drivers for my video card on the virtual Win98SE... the
Add New Hardware wizard, nor the Win98SE install app for the video card don't
work.....

 

Thanks for the rapid response... so how does that affect gaming and other
graphic-intensive apps? Am I stuck with the S3 Trio graphic memory? (my
mistake... NOT Trident)

 

sooo.... how do I increase the VIDEO memory on the VPC...

 

You can manually edit the .vmc file:

<video_adapter>
<vram_size type="integer">8</vram_size>
</video_adapter>

Change the 8 to a larger number, although I don't think you'll get a
VM to recognize anything past 16MB, regardless of the number you put
in.

 

I tried the edit you suggested and found that the value was ALREADY 8mb, so
I bumped it to 16 thinking that the 4mb I get from DirectX and Display may
have gotten trimmed down a bit. No change in my video memory. Is there
anything else that could be causing the 4mb to be fixed like that?
Thanks,
exIBMer

 

Why do you want to do this?

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I'm trying to run an old video game that needs more than 4 mb of video ram.
The product specs for Virtual PC 2007 say that 8 mb is Standard but I'm only
getting 4 mb for this machine. Steve had posted a method for editing the .vmc
file to expand the amount of video ram. When I tried it, the file already
said 8 mb
so I did an edit to make it 16 mb, thinking that may do something. It
didn't.
Which gets me back to my original question, which is now 2 questions. #1:
is there something else that needs to be done to make the edit take effect.
#2: why am I getting 4 mb when the file says 8 in the first place?
So far, VPC works fine except for the video ram problem which is what I see
from
a lot of the posts on this "problem".
Thanks,
exIBMer

 

Did you edit the file with VPC2007 closed down?

Did you shut down the guest machine before you edited?

I don't think you can change any hardware setting on a virtual machine
while it is running or in a saved state. It must be completely shut
down for this to be possible.
And the video depth change may also need VPC2007 itself to be
completely shut down in order to have any effect.

 

<snip>

None of what you posted really answers the original question.

To the OP, you can't install the drivers for the video card that is
installed in your host computer as the guest won't see that adapter. The
only card your guest will see is the emulated S3 card. Check out the
hardware section in Virtual PC's help files for more details.

 

That's the beauty of Virtual Machines, they aren't hardware specific so they
will run on pretty much any hardware platform. What that means is you don't
get access to your physical graphics card, just the generic Trident driver.

 

Installing the Virtual Machine Additions should load the video driver for
the emulated video card.