Did you do something special to get 3D visuals to work? I downloaded the latest nightly build yesterday and I can see the logos from startup, but the title screen and afterwards is all black. The intro has sound and the AM2 / XBOX logos in the corner but it's basically the upper left corner of your video only. The compatibility list says it only works in Wireframe right now. Input does work though, I can press start on the title screen. Based on the change log they fixed it a few days ago.
Useful tip for anyone who hasn't used CXBX before: The emulator doesn't accept disk images. You need to extract the game data to a folder (unless something can mount them?) and run default.xbe from the root.
Anthony817 wrote: Wow, this is pretty amazing. I can't believe it is full speed and sound is working!
CXBX doesn't have to emulate most of the hardware, so good performance on a weak PC is not too surprising. The games were all built around Microsoft technologies, (DirectX, etc.) and the XBOX ran on x86 hardware, so CXBX just adapts the games to use Windows equivalents of the same libraries. I think they're starting to emulate stuff now, but their original approach will work well for many cases.