Baoran wrote on 2020-02-20, 11:25:
I was wondering about when games stopped working on win9x. Was it when they started using directX 10 or was there other reasons why a game from WinXP/Vista period wouldn't work on Win9x?
Hello there! Are you asking about technical or official limits ?
Technically, Win9x can run some of the DirectX 9 stuff that is labeled "XP and higher" if KernelEx is installed (along with GDI+ and Unicode DLLs).
In fact, Windows Me could have a current DirectX 9 that's as late as 2008.
Edit: The official DirectX Redist. for both Win9X/XP is from 2004. After this one is installed, you can upgrade up to version 2008 (on Win Me).
Also, if you can't install DirectX 9 on your PC, just start with installing DirectX 9a and then upgrade to the 2004 version.
Some versions of DX are available at FalconFly's mirrors.
http://www.falconfly.de/3dfxarchive.htm
https://3dfxarchive.com/directx.htm
Baoran wrote on 2020-02-20, 11:25:
I am considering how fast a pc should be that you would need to install WinXP to be able to play all the games that the pc could run performance wise.
That's tricky. Some people kept Windows XP running on Windows 7/8 hardware, even.
Some early intel i7 CPU, GeForce GTX 750 TI graphics card, 16GiB of RAM, 2TB HDD..
While others stopped using XP when Vista came out (say Athlon 64 x2 CPU, 2GiB RAM, GeForce 9600/ATI Radeon X850 XT, 500GB HDD).
Personally, I started using XP on a Pentium MMX 166MHz with 2GB HDD and 64MiB of RAM.. 😀
Edit: The numbers are just random to give an idea how extremely different things could be.
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