Most games i know work with Glide wrappers if the games support 3dfx (which most late 90s games do). Using DirectX rendering with the old games is almost always buggy with new hardware. Be prepared to spend a lot of time trying workarounds, 3rd party patches, etc. The dos games can run in DosBox.

Games: when do you stop using Windows 98, and start using Windows XP?
Win9x games that don't work on XP

Jorpho wrote:

Games: when do you stop using Windows 98, and start using Windows XP?
Win9x games that don't work on XP

Thanks so much! I've googled around for threads but some of them were out of date(as in a patch or gog release came out years later) or not too comprehensive.

• For those curious, build I'm considering is:
  MSI-A88XI-AC-V2-Motherboard
  A10-7860K in 45W Mode(It's gpu is apparently similar to an r7 250.)
  Intel 7260ac Wifi
  Antec Mini-ITX Case ISK110-VESA w/90w psu (60w 12v rail, hence the 45w mode)
  Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 DRAM 2133MHz (PC3 17000)
  Noctua NH-L9A Low Profile Cooler
  Toshiba OCZ Trion 150 480GB SSD(240xp part, 240win10 part)
  Seagate 2TB 128MB Cache 2.5-Inch(for games of both)

Overkill for the era, yes, but it's also meant to double as a super portable gaming rig. Something for when I don't feel like lugging around both a monitor and a full gpu itx on the go, when I can just mount it to the monitor 😀

So cool, my assumption that the majority of older games have XP patches at the highest was correct. Mini-ITX build it is then.

I built myself a Pentium 3 and a Pentium 4, the P3 running W98se and the P4 running XP. I decided I would try each game I wanted to install first on the P4, patch it up, and anything that didn't run I would put on the P3

There was only one game in my big list of titles that wouldn't run on XP, Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion (weird Lucasarts edutainment game)

Now I do use my P3 for DOS as I have an ISA sound card in there, but with XP and DosBOX to be honest you've got most stuff covered

Nipedley wrote:

Now I do use my P3 for DOS as I have an ISA sound card in there, but with XP and DosBOX to be honest you've got most stuff covered

Awesome. It seems I'm getting more proof that it's the right direction then.

DXWnd and similar tools have certainly improved compatibility a lot, compared to say 10 years ago. You'll probably get most games "working" but perhaps not perfectly.

To be honest I don't have a huge amount of experience getting Win95/Win98 games to work on Windows 10 because I still use a Windows 98 machine for them myself. But I've helped a friend get some of the more popular 90's games running on Windows 10. Some low resolution modes didn't display properly on a modern lcd, but thats more a dos games problem (though quake 2 default graphics were unreadable, it was easily fixed).

The stuff that couldn't be fixed were just little things that didn't directly hinder gameplay. Video cutscenes were very hit or miss. Some games with redbook cd audio either won't play the audio or will play it once, but not loop like it's supposed to.