Can't play in a virtual environment?

[A Grumpy Old Man]

My host computer exceeds the requirements, and the allowed resources should be enough. My host computer runs Mint 14.

Specs taken from DirectX Diagnostic tool in virtual environment

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System tab:

OS: Win 7 Pro 64-bit
Processor: I7 920 2.67GHz
2048MB RAM
Page file: 1123mb used, 2971 available
DirectX 11

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Display tab:

Device: VMware SVGA 3D
Manufacturer: VMWare, Inc
Approx. Total Memory: 828MB
Display Mode: 1280 x 962 (32 bit)

Notes- No problems found

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Error given when running DirectX 9 upon game loading:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: CivilizationV.exe
Application Version: 1.0.2.44
Application Timestamp: 510a1bfc
Fault Module Name: CivilizationV.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.2.44
Fault Module Timestamp: 510a1bfc
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0031ad03
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Error given when running DirectX 10 / 11 upon game loading:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: CivilizationV_DX11.exe
Application Version: 1.0.2.44
Application Timestamp: 510a1a7a
Fault Module Name: CivilizationV_DX11.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.2.44
Fault Module Timestamp: 510a1a7a
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 001eb273
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789


No mods are installed. Troubleshooting steps posted in the two stickies have been followed. No luck.

Hardware of computer:
mobo - Rampage II Extreme
memory - 12gb ddr3
video card - EVGA GTX560Ti (1280MB, supports DirectX 11)

[A Grumpy Old Man]

I should note, this is a clean install. After I got the VM up and running, the OS updated and patched, I installed Steam and redownloaded and installed the game. I have absolutly nothing else running or installed that does not come with steam or an OEM windows.

[76561197993166808]

Did you ever solve your VMWare issue?
I have just purchased Civ V and installed it into a Win 7 VM Workstation environment and I also have the same issue. I "suspect" that the issue may be the "VMWare SVGA 3D" graphics driver.

Edit:
I've found a solution.
The VMWare graphics driver for Windows 7 is only DirectX 9 capable. So even though the DirectX 10 or 11 is the recommended version only the DirectX 9 will play.

[A Grumpy Old Man]

Thanks for the reply! I didn't find a solution, but then again I didn't pour all my efforts into it. I had a secondary computer that was good enough and threw my video card into it. If I can recall properly, I think I was able to get it working somewhat, but there was a *HUGE* laginess to the game, as if I was running it off of an old Celeron with 512MB of memory, not an I7 with 16GB.

As you can probably, I don't use steam very much, four months went by and I just now found out I had a message from a long forgotten thread :-/

[Damsteri]

Civ V is heavily CPU restricted game, so using an old slow processor makes game very very slow.

How about streaming? Would it help you guys? I use in-house streaming function from Steam and play the game with my laptop, but I use my desktop gaming PC for streaming. Then game is not limited by laptop's performance. Of course this is not helping if you need to be able to play the game from a virtual environment for some other reason.