@BEEN_Nath_58: how is using an alternative installer unreasonable? It fixed everything for me easily for all the old games I have installed so far where the original installer is not compatible with the modern Windows and/or Windows complains it can't run said installer for no reason.
You just replace the binary for the installer, install the game, play it. No need for VDM, emulators, virtual machines. I fail to see where it is unreasonable, if anything, it just makes things easier and solves the problem OOB.
Unreasonable is installing an entire VDM just for a game. Which in fact I did, since I have only one game which required the use of OTVDM (a different but smaller solution based off the same premise) and it is SimTower, simply because both game and installer are 16-bit (Windows 3.x); And now the game runs fine. But there's a catch, OTVDM did not work for the installer, which crashed numerous times until I realized there was an alternate 32-bit installer for it. Problem solved.
VDM isn't really completely required at all unless the game is 16-bit and we have the alternative installer. I am running more than 30 old games on modern Windows. SimCity 2K Urban Renewal Kit being one of them.
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