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mooreted
November 8th, 2009, 03:41 AM
AMD Phenom Quad Core
3GB RAM
Nvidia 8800GT 512

Running Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit as host and Ubuntu 9.10 Guest in Virtualbox 3.08. Everything is running great except graphics. I turned of compositing on the Ubuntu guest. Set performance to High Performance on the Windows host, tried VT/x on and off; nothing helps so far.

Screen redraws and dragging windows is very, very slow.

I should mention that on my Debian VM, everything works perfectly; you really can't even tell it's running as a VM.
dzon65
November 8th, 2009, 04:30 AM
In 8.10 they suggested the 180 driver,but graphics worked far better for me using the 177 version.In 9.10 I'm using the 185 version which works very nice.Perhaps you should try one of the other drivers?
mooreted
November 8th, 2009, 11:01 AM
I'm currently using Nvidia driver version 191.07 in Windows. Ubuntu is the guest OS. Are you saying to try to downgrade the Windows driver?
mooreted
November 8th, 2009, 12:42 PM
Checking glxinfo and glxgears, 3D acceleration is working. Also, streaming video works fine. It seems to be a 2D acceleration problem.
catco_designs
November 8th, 2009, 12:48 PM
AMD Phenom Quad Core
3GB RAM
Nvidia 8800GT 512

The issue may lie with the system running 32 bit instead of the capabilities at 64 bit.
although 32 bit will work fine for a 64bit system you are already downgrading by running 32bit
mooreted
November 8th, 2009, 01:04 PM
That's an idea. However, debian runs perfectly. That seems to point to an Ubuntu problem.

I've had nothing but problems with 64bit OS's so I'm leery of using them.
mooreted
November 8th, 2009, 05:32 PM
Well, it would have been nice to see what the difference is. I'm beginning to think Windows 7 is causing issues. It is starting to slow down.

I think I've learned all I need about Windows 7. I'm going to install 9.10 and be done with it. I really just don't like running Windows.

Thanks for all the replies.
catco_designs
November 8th, 2009, 07:14 PM
FYI the 64 bit version of Ubuntu9.10 seems to run just fine
mooreted
November 8th, 2009, 08:09 PM
Until you try to run Wow or Second Life and a host of other software from developers that aren't coding for 64-bit.
catco_designs
November 9th, 2009, 05:55 AM
It is my understanding that 32 bit programs can work in a 64 bit system. It is your option though you could go install Windows 95 in it and it won't affect me either.
In 32bit emulation Wine can work with many games...
mooreted
November 9th, 2009, 10:52 AM
Just speaking from my own personal experience with both Windows and Linux 64 bit systems. I had more problems with them than 32 bit systems.