Age of Empires III – Running Age of Empires III on VirtualBox with Windows and Ubuntu

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I have a Ubuntu host and running Windows 7 as guest using VirtualBox.

I installed succesfully Age of Empires III, but whenever I try to run the game, got this error:

Initialization Failed Direct3D initialization failed.

In the log appears this line:

PreGame  6713:  nvCPL is unavailable.

I have tried all the solutions around the web to no avail.

Any help would be appreciate.

Best Answer

As it says...

Initialization Failed Direct3D initialization failed.

You should enable Direct3D in VirtualBox settings, if that doesn't work, you should try updating your drivers in both VM and host PC.

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