I am trying to run Altium Designer 10 in a Windows XP virtual machine and have installed the 'experimental' 3D support in the guest and selected the 3D option on the host. Altium Designer requires DirectX 9.0c which must include shader model 3 support.

I have attached a screencapture of the error message I get when I try to enable 3D support within the Altium tool. This is becoming a major concern as Altium has indicated that the they will phase out the GDI interface and require the DirectX 9.0c to be available to use future versions of their software.

Widow 7 no problem shader model, now i use windows XP. Shader model 2.0 long ago used window 7, widow 7 no problem shader model, now i use windows XP. How to Find Out What Pixel Shader I Have. Press 'Windows-R' to open the Run command. Shader Model 2.0 Radeon X700/X800 Series - Shader Model 2.0b Radeon X1000.

FYI, the dxdiag command gives me the following output: The file VBoxDisp.dll is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer. To test DirectDraw functionality, click the 'Test DirectDraw' button above. Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 40 (Creating flipping primary surface with one back buffer): HRESULT = 0x88760064 (error code) Direct3D 8 test results: Failure at step 4 (EnumAdapterModes): HRESULT = 0x8876086c (error code) Direct3D 9 test results: All tests were successful. Falling Slowly Glen Hansard on this page. Is it normal that the Direct3D version 7,8 tests fail? If you would like to reproduce this problem, I think the freely available Altium Designer Viewer will also produce this DirectX error message if the hardware 3D support is selected from inside the tool. The viewer is available here.

Replying to: The log says you did not update guest additions, Guest Additions information report: Version 4.2.0 r80737 '4.2.0' please install Guest Additions from the above VBox package I posted here, reboot the guest and try again. I installed Guest Additions 4.2.1 and still have the same error dialog box in Altium Designer indicating the emulated video card only supports shader model 2.0. For reference the installed version of d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll show version 4.2.1.0 in their property page.

As before the dxdiag returns the same results with Direct3D 9 working and Direct3D 8 returning an error. Build 4. Pivot Figure Naruto Pack. 2.1-80930 is an improvement. GLView and Altium both see that Shader Model 3 is available. Unfortunately, the Altium package is not working properly in DirectX mode.