WinME is a horrible choice.

Half MS-DOS half Windows game.
But Xngine is really bad compared Glide version of the game.

My old laptop handles it.But not have a 3dfx card.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

WinME is a horrible choice.

The game I wanna play is MS-DOS with a Windows 98 install, so for me is the perfect OS.
I have an old laptop with ME and it runs very well, unfortunately, the hardware is really poor.

ME has a largely undeserved reputation, it's "fine."

If you want to use the many aftermarket "updates" and bugfixes come up with by fans over the years, 98SE is what they're written for, though some of them work with ME.

WinME may generally be better than 98SE for stability in Windows, but the pure DOS mode has been sort-of removed (can be hacked back in). If you only intend to play DOS games within Windows, it's OK, but I don't see any system making both WinME and Win10 happy. You will encounter issues and glitches in one of them or in both.

Probably not.

ME=Dos Version 8 which is a crippled version of Dos 7.1 from 98 ME also removes real mode dos support present in 98

So if you want to play ms dos games ME isn't good for that.

So for you if the game you want to play is a DOS game with a windows install ME IS THE WORST OS> 🤣

Given that likely none of your hardware will be supported by WinME, you might be better off trying this in a Virtual Machine.

And just use DosBox for dos games.

Well,my old laptop runs ms-dos games without any issues in WinME.
a k6-2 300mhz

The game I want to play in Glide version is TES Redguard, in my old laptop I play it in xngine, it plays good, but Glide version is way better and supports higher resolutions.

dr_st wrote:

WinME may generally be better than 98SE for stability in Windows, but the pure DOS mode has been sort-of removed (can be hacked back in). If you only intend to play DOS games within Windows, it's OK, but I don't see any system making both WinME and Win10 happy. You will encounter issues and glitches in one of them or in both.

They will have their owns disk,when i mean dual boot i mean start the notebook by selecting the diferent disk.

Maybe i try Win98SE,thanks guys.

Eirle wrote:

They will have their owns disk,when i mean dual boot i mean start the notebook by selecting the diferent disk.

That's not the problem.

Eirle wrote:

Maybe i try Win98SE,thanks guys.

It won't be any better (in fact will probably be worse), but good luck and keep us updated on the results. 😀

Warlord wrote:

So if you want to play ms dos games ME isn't good for that.

It's not any different to playing DOS games in Win98. The DOS VM is the same. It only lacks booting into DOS-only, but that's hardly needed for most games anyway.

derSammler wrote:

Warlord wrote:

So if you want to play ms dos games ME isn't good for that.

It's not any different to playing DOS games in Win98. The DOS VM is the same. It only lacks booting into DOS-only, but that's hardly needed for most games anyway.

You can mod ME so that it works like a normal 9X operating system almost. Saying that its not any different in virtual dos would be true if windows 95 and 98 VXD drivers were not notoriously buggy on ME.