Plebby: The games I'm referring to aren't necessarily high-demand games by todays day and age there's no reason I shouldn't be able to run Dungeon Keeper II, Thief or Carmageddon II from within a VirtualBox guest. Are there any guides to getting these games working in VirtualBox guests? This problem seems fairly global for GOG games. Thief III doesn't draw anything on the screen I have to press combinations of ALT+F4 and ALT+TAB to get my mouse/system stability back. Other games just crash entirely, for example I see a blank screen and hear audio in Thief, and the patches (cam_ext or otherwise) don't work. Please make sure you have DirectX8 installed correctly.' I applied the Pure Faction patch which allows me to play with the submarine as intended (among many other patches), however even with that patch I still see 'CreateDevice failed. Red Faction has a nasty bug in your version where the submarine explodes on impact with the water due to a race condition, for example.

I've tried patching those that have patches, installing DX8 drivers (Windows 7 comes with DX11 preinstalled, by the way), and installing Visual C++ 2008 runtime drivers. So far the only luck I've had has been Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and let's face it, there's only so long you can play any one game for, especially that game. The games I'm referring to aren't necessarily high-demand games by todays day and age there's no reason I shouldn't be able to run Dungeon Keeper II, Thief or Carmageddon II from within a VirtualBox guest. I have Windows 7 32-bit running as a VirtualBox guest, and it seems most games are having problems loading.

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