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Date:      Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:04:26 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox 2D acceleration
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010010957140.69213@thor.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <201009291929.52476.lobo@bsd.com.br>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009252014010.37904@thor.farley.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009291626380.30543@thor.farley.org> <9b2994ac03546972fd1c0d1a4ae64dfa@ringofsaturn.com> <201009291929.52476.lobo@bsd.com.br>

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On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Mario Lobo wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 September 2010 19:09:03 Rusty Nejdl wrote:

*snip*

>>  Just found the enable 2d acceleration checkbox.  I only works for
>>  Windows clients that you have installed the 2d acceleration drivers.
>>  Using it for Diablo II has a noticeable improvement.  No mouse
>>  stuttering that I have seen since then.
>
> Just found something.
>
> On a win 7 guest. When I tried to refresh the "Windows Experience 
> Index", the VM was summarily closed midway through the process. No 
> crash or abort warnings of any kind. No host disturbance whatsoever 
> however.
>
> Without the 2d enebled, the refresh runs without problems.

It looks like a known bug even when the host is Windows 7: 
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5236

> FreeBSD amd 64 8G Ram
> Nvidia driver 256.52

I am running 256.53 which is a certified/non-beta driver.  You can find 
it from the main driver download; I did not see it in the forum under 
the "Current Releases" thread.

Sean
-- 
scf@FreeBSD.org



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