GZdoom 4.1.2b supposedly last version for XP since newer Windows vers compiled with VS2019 using v142 toolset.
https://msfn.org/board/topic/176299-latest-ve … comment-1171775

SteamLiteXP for Windows XP

For the one or two people who bother to read this thread and noticed that I've removed the games from the first post.

I've removed the info because I've gone through and updated the information and am putting it into a spreadsheet that combines the Windows, Linux and Mac game info into one which I'd like to have up by the end of the week.

Left to do:
Test with Goldberg (Currently only works with Vista+ so use SmartSteamEmu for 2000 and XP)
Test with OS <Vista for each game and for the working ones list the method used to get it to work.

I have a Windows XP install that I've disabled ethernet/LAN drivers to keep it offline. I want to start moving my XP games from my Steam library over there -- what's the best way to do this? I've downloaded Tomb Raider Anniversary off my steam library as a test and tried launching without Steam which it does not.

I've downloaded Steamless from github but it's not in a launchable/usable format and the readme says I need to compile it..?

Sorry if this is off-topic, but it has just occurred to me in relation to this thread, are there/have there been any fan-made server emulators for games that were originally multiplayer only, but the official servers are now down, but said emulators allow to play PvE content locally?

There are for Steam on a certain forum and they work well (SmartSteaEmu and Goldberg). Currently for other online store emulators the equivalents allow offline gameplay but not LAN like the steam emulators. (There might be one that does for Epic though).

As for non-emulation it would be game specific like WOW private servers and the like. I'm not a multiplayer fan so I don't track those.
It would be nice to track games that required proprietary servers where you couldn't setup your own server but now can but the list is likely small.

This Goldberg fork contains VC2013 build that seems to work on XP. It works on SSE1 CPUs like Pentium 3. https://gitlab.com/this_isnotme/winxp-goldberg-emulator

update: there is also VC2015 build with newer version of code.

Nice! Yeah the response on that forum really turned me off so didn't even bother with modifying the source since I don't see it ever being approved. Would be nice to be proven wrong but you just get beaten down all the time when you read comments like that all the time.

Some of these games were updated to no longer be compatible with XP and some work fine on XP but require jumping through hoops installing old versions of Steam since those games require Steam. It's annoying to see people jump through hoops to install an old version of Steam when they could just use SSE, Steamless, etc but I suppose in a lot of those cases they never downloaded the game and kept a copy so they likely are using Steam for downloading as well.

Easier approach was to take ws2_32.dll and ws2_base.dll from onercoreapi and place them in the same location as the goldberg dll and call it a day.
I usually use SmartSteamEmu and then if the game doesn't work then I use goldberg so haven't bothered to test all my games with goldberg and the fact that I had to use onecoreapi .dlls for XP for it turned me off from doing alot of XP testing.

If there's any interest I can post my latest list for SSE, Steamless, Goldberg, etc. There didn't seem to be any interest here so I never bothered.

DosFreak wrote on 2021-09-20, 22:42:

Easier approach was to take ws2_32.dll and ws2_base.dll from onercoreapi and place them in the same location as the goldberg dll and call it a day.

I found out that Goldberg compiles by default with SSE2 as minimum requirement, now on the XP repository there is also SSE1 build. So it works with Pentium 3 now (good for pushing Dual Tualatin to the limits). In case of SSE2 compiled binary, these workarounds probably wouldn't work, so it's handy to have a file that works out of the box on older platforms.

DosFreak wrote on 2021-09-20, 22:42:

If there's any interest I can post my latest list for SSE, Steamless, Goldberg, etc. There didn't seem to be any interest here so I never bothered.

I don't own much more on Steam besides Valve Complete Pack, and some titles I tested worked fine with Goldberg or even had no DRM. I wonder if there is anything from Valve that wouldn't work with Goldberg.

DosFreak wrote on 2021-09-20, 22:42:

didn't even bother with modifying the source since I don't see it ever being approved.

Removing unsupported functions from the code didn't actually help running it natively on Windows XP, the error disappeared but it still didn't work, at least in my case. Only reverting to older VS2013 compiler helped. In that case unfortunately no versions of code made after mid 2019 can be used, because they are heavy dependant on json.hpp library, which is doesn't work in older C++ versions. Maybe there are some workarounds, but there probably isn't too much interest in that (although even having single version compiled for XP is better than none, especially when running only older backups of games).

Wanted to say thanks for the intel here. I am beginning this journey (finally), as it’s pretty tough to ignore the convenience of Steam vs installing from media, patching, etc.

I’m focused on pretty mainstream titles 1998-2005 or so; all of them I reckon will show up in Metacritic top 20 for each year. Goal is to produce a working dataset that I can copy from NAS to a (pre-SSE2, likely) XP machine.

Just getting started with SmartSteamEmu which I really like on XP. I will get into the other utilities as necessary and share any advice that I can come up with.

I've neglected this thread since I'm focusing on https://github.com/vogonsorg which is a project to identify last known working versions of programs, upload them (only if legally allowed) and then setting up compilation of that last working version and working on compiling a later version if not the latest version compatible with whatever OS. Currently I'm in the about to upload stage.

With that said I still make my games work offline, just verified this weekend that Black Mesa v1.0 still works with SmartSteamEmu on XP. 😀

Currently:
#1 SmartSteamEmu is still the best as far as compatibility both with XP and Steam games.

#2 Goldberg is another option a couple of years ago XP support was dropped and recently Vista support was dropped as well.

For XP there are two options:
Use an older version of Goldberg (2021?) with OneCoreAPI files ws2_32.dll and ws2_base.dll in the same directory as the emu.
Use the fork of goldberg for XP (Haven't tested this much) https://gitlab.com/this_isnotme/winxp-goldberg-emulator

#3 Steamless (Run this on your host to remove Steam from the executable, some games may still need steam emulated so use SSE or Goldberg)

#4 Cracks
Some of these use scene steam emulators as well as executable cracks. I went through my games long ago and got rid of the scene cracks as much as possible and replaced with SSE or goldberg or a combination of exe w/ SSE or goldberg.

#5 RevEmu for
HL2 engine games <= v5135. (Newer versions of HL2 are DRM free with a switch)
HL1 engine games <=v4554

#6 There are other options:
LumaEmu (I only use this for Bioshock Infinite on Vista)
SteamEmu (Was used for HL engine games but I'm slowly replacing this in my copies of HL with revemu),
SteamLiteXP (I don't bother with this since I'd rather download the games on my game download VM)
old versions of Steam (I don't bother with this since I'd rather download the games on my game download VM and I don't want Steam running when I play my games)

Here this should save you some time. This isn't the complete list rather geared more towards steam emulators. Also the below list isn't XP focused, just a list of games and what's needed to run them.
Don't ask for any files, you'll need to find those yourself.

SSE games

110 Second Ninja X
2Age of Chivalry Dedicated Server
3Alien Breed 2 Assault
4Alien Breed 3 Descent
5Alien Swarm
6Altitude
7Ark Survival Evolved
8Armor of Heroes
9Batman Arkham Origins
10Bayonetta
11Bioshock 2
12Black Mesa (mod)
13Black Mesa Dedicated Server
14BlazeRush Dedicated Server
15Call of Duty Black Ops
16Carnage Racing
17Counter-Strike Source
18D.I.P.R.I.P Dedicated Server
19Day of Defeat Source
20Dead Island
21Deus Ex Human Revolution The Missing Link (DXHRML)
22Dino D-Day
23Dirt Rally
24Dishonored
25Divinity - Original Sin
26Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition
27Dogfighter Demo
28Draw Slasher
29Dreamkiller
30Duke Nukem 3D Twentieth Anniversary World Tour
31dungeon siege iii - demo
32Eador Masters of the Broken World
33Endless Zone
34Fortified
35Game of Thrones
36Goat of Duty
37GTR Evolution Demo
38Half-Life 1 Source Deathmatch
39Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
40Half-Life Deathmatch Source Dedicated server
41Hard Reset
42Injustice Gods Among Us
43Just Cause
44Killing Floor
45Lara Croft and The Temple of Osiris
46Layers of Fear
47Lead  and Gold Gangs of the Wild West
48Left 4 Dead
49Left 4 Dead 2
50Left 4 Dead 2 Beta
51Left 4 Dead 2 Demo
52Life is Strange
53Magic The Gathering Demo
54Magrunner Dark Pulse
55Metro 2033
56Moonbase Alpha
57Murderous Pursuits
58NiGHTS Into Dreams
59Orion Prelude
60Outland

61payday the heist
62Polyball
63Post Apocalyptic Mayhem
64Quake Live
65R.u.s.e. demo
66Race On (Demo)
67Red Faction 2
68Red Faction Armageddon
69Red Faction Guerilla
70Resident Evil 4
71Resident Evil 6 Biohazard Benchmark Tool
72Resident Evil Biohazard HD REMASTER
73Ridge Racer Unbounded (Demo)
74Serious Sam Double D Demo
75Serious Sam Fusion 2017
76Serious Sam Revolution
77Shank demo
78Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion
79Soldat
80Source 2007 Dedicated Server (Pirates Vikings Knights II)
81Source Dedicated Server Eternal Silence and Insurgency Mod
82South Park The Stick of Truth
83State of Decay
84State of Decay YOSE
85Team Fortress 2
86Team Fortress 2 Beta
87The Deed
88The Haunted Hells Reach Dedicated Server
89The LEGO NINJAGOr Movie Video Game
90The Red Solstice
91The Ship Dedicated Server
92This War of Mine
93Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War 2
94Warlock - Master of the Arcane

SSE w/ Crack

1Duke Nukem Forever
2Just Cause 2
3Portal 2

SSE w/ Steamless

1Borderlands GOTY
2Nier Automata
3Dishonored 2
4Dishonored Death of the Outsider
5Dying Light
6Insurgency 2

SSE Comfy Launcher w/Steamless

1Allegiance
2Yakyza 0

SSE or goldberg

1Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate HD (XP 32bit)
2Bioshock 2 Remastered (Vista 32bit)
3Bioshock Remastered (Vista 32bit)
4Black Mesa (XP 32bit)
5Borderlands The Pre-Sequel (XP 32bit)
6Brink (XP 32bit)
7Crusader Kings II
8Deus Ex - Human Revolution (2000 BWC XP 32)
9Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut (XP 32)
10Devil May Cry HD Collection
11Fallout Shelter
12Half-Life Engine Games (XP 32)
13Middle-earth Shadow of Mordor
14Resident Evil 2 Biohazard
15Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
16Tomb Raider (XP)

SSE Comfy Launcher games

1DayZ
2Just Cause 3 Multiplayer Mod
3Thief (2014)

SSE or Goldberg or Reloaded Social Club or EXE

1Max Payne 3 (XP-Vista)

Steamless

1Alpha Protocol (2000 BWC XP 32bit)
2Days Gone
3Doom 3 BFG Edition (2000 BWC XP 32bit)
4Fallout New Vegas (2000 BWC XP 32bit)
5Ghostbusters The Videogame (2000 BWC XP 32bit)
6Indiana Jones and the fate of atlantis (2000 BWC XP 32bit)
7Kao the Kangaroo Round 2 (2000 BWC)
8Max Payne (2000 BWC)
9Metro Last Light (2000 BWC)
10Mirror's Edge (2000 BWC)
11Morrowind
12NBA 2K21
13Oddworld Abe's Exoddus (2000 BWC)
14Quake 2
15Sam and Max Season 1 Episode 4 (2000 BWC)
16Skyrim (2000 BWC)
17Skyrim Special Edition
18Steel Rats
19Supreme Commander (2000 BWC)
20Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (2000 BWC)
21Syberia
22Syberia 2
23The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition (2000 BWC)
24Wasteland (2000 BWC)
25xcom Enforcer (2000 BWC)
26xcom interceptor (2000 BWC)
27Batman Arkham City (Demo) (XP 32)
28Enderal Forgotten Stories (Vista 32)
29Fallout 4
30I am Alive (XP 32)
31list.txt
32Metro 2033 Redux
33Metro Last Light Redux
34Mightier (XP 32)
35Rage (XP 32)
36Rage Tool Kit
37Sanctum (XP 32)
38Skyrim Special Edition
39System Shock Pre-Alpha Demo
40Tales from the Borderlands (XP)
41The Evil Within
42Wolfenstein The New Order
43Wolfenstein The Old Blood

Steamless + CD Key

1Tropico 3 Special Edition
2Unreal Tournament 3

Steamless + Goldberg

1Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition
2Arma 3
3Bioshock 2 (Vista 32bit)
4Civilization VI
5Doom (2016) (Vista 64)
6Duke Nukem 3D Twentieth Anniversary World Tour
7God of War
8Monster Hunter World
9Nioh
10No Man's Sky
11Pinball FX3
12The Council Episode 1
13Vampyr
14Wolfenstein II The New Colossus
15Wolfenstein Youngblood

Steamless + xliveless

1Bulletstorm

xliveless

1Dirt 2

Revemu

1HL2  <=v5135
2HL1 <=v4554
3Peggle Extreme
4Portal The First Slice
5Race07 Demo
6STCC Demo

NO DRM

1100% Orange Juice (XP 32)
27 Days to Die Dedicated Server
3Age of Decadence (XP 32)
4Age of Wonders 3
5aliens vs predator dedicated server (XP 32)
6Alpha Polaris A Horror Adventure Game (XP 32)
7Amnesia A Machine for Pigs (XP 32)
8Arma 3 Server
9ARMA Cold War Assault
10Armillo
11Arx Fatalis
12Assetto Corsa Editor
13Barotrauma
14Batman Arkham Knight
15between - demo (XP 32)
16Blackout Z Slaughterhouse Edition
17breach dedicated server (XP 32)
18Call of Duty Black Ops Rcon (XP 32)
19Castle Woodwarf
20Chex Quest HD ( 7 64bit)
21chivalrymedievalwarfare (XP 32)
22Codename Gordon (XP 32)
23coil (XP 32)
24Company of Heroes 2 Tools
25Conan Exiles Dedicated Server
26Death Rally (Classic) (XP 32)
27Deiland (64bit)
28Dungeon Souls (XP 32)
29Dusk (Vista 32)
30Evil Genius (XP 32)
31FakeFactory Cinematic Mod for Half-Life 2 (CM2013) (XP 32)
32Frog Fractions Game of the Decade Edition (Vista 32)
33Galaxium
34Geneshift
35Golden Axed A Canceled Prototype
36Hacknet (XP 32)
37Half-Life 2 Engine Games (XP 32)
38Half-Life 2 Update (XP 32)
39Half-Life SDK
40homefront dedicated server (XP 32)
41homefront japanese dedicated server (XP 32)
42I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator
43Insurgency Dedicated Server
44Jagged Alliance Gold
45Kathy Rain
46Keyboard Killers
47Kholat
48Kingdom Classic
49Kingdoms Rise Dedicated Server
50Left 4 Dead 2 Dedicated Server
51Left 4 Dead Dedicated Server
52Lost Daughter
53machinarium demo
54Merry Snowballs
55monday night combat dedicated server
56NaissanceE
57Natural Selection 2 Dedicated Server
58Nexuiz Dedicated Server
59Oddworld Munchs Oddysee
60OpenTTD

61Overload
62Painkiller Hell & Damnation Dedicated Server
63Portal
64Puzzle Lines and Knots
65Quake
66Quake Remaster
67Ravaged Dedicated Server
68Receiver
69Red Orchestra Windows Dedicated Server
70Regions of Ruin
71Reign Of Kings Dedicated Server
72Rusty Lake Hotel
73Samorost 1
74Scrap Garden
75Sega Genesis Classics Sonic The Hedgehog 2
76Serious Sam Classic The First Encounter
77Showdown Bandit
78Source SDK
79SourceFilmmaker (XP 32)
80Stellaris (64bit)
81Sunrider Mask of Arcadius (XP 32)
82The Divinity Engine (XP 32)
83The Divinty Engine Enhanced Edition
84The Dream Machine Chapter 1 + 2
85The Elder Scrolls Arena
86The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall
87The Raintime (XP 32)
88Vox Machinae Dedicated Server
89War Wind
90Warzone 2100
91Amnesia The Dark Descent (XP 32)
92Antichamber (XP 32)
93Fallout (2000 BWC)
94list5.txt
95Quake II RTX
96Serious Sam Classic The Second Encounter (2000 BWC)
97Shadow Warrior Original (95+)
98Stranger's Wrath (2000 BWC)
99The Forest (XP 32)
100Viscera Cleanup Detail Shadow Warrior (XP 32)
101WarZone 2100
102Wasteland 2 (XP 32)
103Wasteland 2 Director's Cut
104x-com terror from the deep (95+)
105xcom apocalypse (95+)
106XCom UFO Defense (95+)

Goldberg + Social Club + Crack

1L.A. Noire
2Max Payne 3
3Red Dead Redemption 2

Goldberg + Crack

1Deus Ex Mankind Divided
2Halo Reach + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4

Goldberg

1Alan Wake
2Borderlands 3
3Chip's Challenge 1
4Death Stranding
5Deep Rock Galactic
6Devil May Cry 5 (64bit)
7Doom 64
8Elden Ring
9Four Kings One War (Vista 32bit)
10Horizon Zero Dawn
11Intertial Drift Sunset Prologue (64bit)
12list4.txt
13Nier Replicant
14PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 (64bit)
15Polygoneer (Vista 32bit)
16Portal 2
17Prey (2017) (64bit)
18Quake
19Rage 2
20Red Faction Guerrilla Re-MARS-tered (Vista 32bit)
21Resident Evil 3
22Rise of the Tomb Raider
23Shadow of the Tomb Raider
24Streets of Kamurocho
25Subnautica
26Surviving Mars
27Tell Me Why
28The Uncertain Last Quiet Day (64bit)
29Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
30Tomb Raider
31Two Point Hospital
32Will Glow The Wisp
33Borderlands GOTY Enhanced
34Dark Souls Remastered
35Serious Sam 3
36Supreme Commander 2
37Team Fortress 2

Goldberg Social Club + Crack

1GTA IV
2GTA V
3GTA Remastered

Cracks (or use a port or patch if there is one)

1Alan Wake (XP  32)
2assassins creed brotherhood (2000 BWC)
3Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY (XP 32)
4Batman Arkham City GOTY (XP 32)
5Bioshock (2000 BWC)
6Crysis 2 (2000 BWC)
7Dead Space 2 (2000 BWC)
8Duke Nukem 3D Twentieth Anniversary World Tour
9FarCry (2000 BWC)
10Half-Life
11Max Payne 2 The Fall of Max Payne (2000 BWC)
12Morrowind
13Oblivion (2000  BWC)
14Oddworld Abe's Oddysee (2000 BWC)
15Outcast 1.1 (2000   BWC)
16Prey (2006) (2000 BWC)
17Quake 2
18Quake 3
19Red Faction
20Saints Row Gat out of Hell
21Saints Row IV
22Saints Row The Third (2000 BWC)
23Shadow Warrior (XP 32)
24The Walking Dead (2000 BWC)
25The Walking Dead Season 2 (2000 BWC)
26The Wolf Among Us (XP 32)
27Torchlight (2000 BWC)
28Unreal Gold (2000 BWC)

CRACKS + XLIVELESS

1GTA IV (Windows XP)

This is outstanding- thank you very much! I have also been paying attention to your github work..don’t think any of it goes unappreciated.

DosFreak wrote on 2019-10-20, 18:55:

GZdoom 4.1.2b supposedly last version for XP since newer Windows vers compiled with VS2019 using v142 toolset.
https://msfn.org/board/topic/176299-latest-ve … comment-1171775

It's broken for Windows XP x64. You can patch 4.1.2b and compile it yourself so that it works with XP x64, but there are still problems. Using Creative's hardware implementation of OpenAL (at least as shipped with Audigy 2 ZS) will produce a lot of errors. I haven't gotten an Audigy just to emulate its capabilities in software implemented OpenAL 😒

Dead link for list of removed games, here's the archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210226005602/ht … eu:80/games.php

moog wrote on 2022-06-29, 07:35:

DosFreak wrote on 2019-10-20, 18:55:

GZdoom 4.1.2b supposedly last version for XP since newer Windows vers compiled with VS2019 using v142 toolset.
https://msfn.org/board/topic/176299-latest-ve … comment-1171775

It's broken for Windows XP x64. You can patch 4.1.2b and compile it yourself so that it works with XP x64, but there are still problems. Using Creative's hardware implementation of OpenAL (at least as shipped with Audigy 2 ZS) will produce a lot of errors. I haven't gotten an Audigy just to emulate its capabilities in software implemented OpenAL 😒

I haven't had time to look too much into it but for gzdoom 4.1.3 x64 you can use PatchPE to bypass the OS requirement and rename libfluidsynth64.dll to enable it to load and play. Will need to see if an older ver can be used or a version compiled that is compatible.
The 32bit ver loads without issue so possibly an older version is being used?

@DosFreak what version of Goldberg did you use with Portal 2 to get it to work? I copied the install folder from Windows 7 that does have Steam installed to Windows 10 that doesn't have Steam installed and tried the latest Goldberg and version 0.2.5 but no dice, errors out after the valve intro and says I need to have Steam running. Deus Ex: Human Revolution works fine though.

Haven't tried SSE with crack yet, I'd prefer a way that doesn't need cracks if possible.

For Portal 2 (Build v7293 was last build I tested) on Vista and above I use the command "portal2.exe -steam", also drop the .dll in the bin folder.
As far as Goldberg version it shouldn't matter. I want to say Vista compatibility is broken but 7 should still be fine and I haven't yet had to revert to an older version of Goldberg to get a game to work (except for Vista).

If the above doesn't work let me know and I'll do another test.