What card/how much VRAM for late Windows 9x games?

Posted on 2019-10-25, 10:59

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by captain_koloth

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I've been thinking lately of what GPU and how much VRAM I need for a build focused on late Windows 98 games (1999-2001). Perhaps as a psychological hangover from always having suffered with really terrible hardware in the past, I've been thinking of builds that are really ridiculous overkill for …

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Re: MiG Alley?

Posted on 2019-10-19, 22:31

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For what it's worth I've managed to get this working perfectly ok my Windows machine with otherwise modern hardware. So whatever the problem is, it lies in something 10 is doing that did not happen in 7 (doesnt work in 8 either).

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Win 98 emulation options pros and cons

Posted on 2019-10-14, 13:42

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Can anyone explain the pros and cons of various solutions for Win 98 emulation/virtualization as it stands today? Specifically I'm interested in how VMWare, VirtualBox, Virtual PC, PCEm, 86box, maybe even DOSBox stack up against each other from the perspective of getting emulated Win 98 games with …

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Re: Why is Win 9x compatibility/emulation so difficult?

Posted on 2019-10-09, 23:51

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Emulating the hardware is much lower level. You're taking code at the CPU op-code level and making decisions about whether the host CPU can process that instruction directly (there's no harm in letting the host CPU add two numbers together), or if that instruction needs to be redirected to a proxy …

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Re: Why is Win 9x compatibility/emulation so difficult?

Posted on 2019-10-08, 11:55

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SirNickity, Spiroyster: THANK YOU! These answers are superlative! Answers exactly the original question I was asking. One additional question: For Win9x applications to be happy, you either have to emulate the entire API as it existed in Win9x -- which is not something anyone has done, AFAIK. Maybe …

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Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

Posted on 2019-10-07, 16:27

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I was curious about Android and got BoxedWine to build on it. It's pretty cool to see it work, but it is also obvious it will need a better CPU core, the default normal core only gets a score of 3 on the MDK performance test on my Samsung S9, so maybe a 7MHz Pentium :) Wow! Please keep working on …

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Re: Why is Win 9x compatibility/emulation so difficult?

Posted on 2019-10-07, 13:33

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What do you mean by 'emulate'? If not on modern hardware, which hardware are you thinking of? The title 'emulator' is generally given to programs which 'emulate' instructions of a different hardware. WINE has been mentined which is (I agree) a compatiblity layer, although ironically uses (or at …

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Re: Why is Win 9x compatibility/emulation so difficult?

Posted on 2019-10-07, 10:21

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(OP asked why Windows is so difficult to emulate, not for the optimal solution running legacy Windows 9x software on new or non-x86 hardware) This.

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Why is Win 9x compatibility/emulation so difficult?

Posted on 2019-10-06, 01:00

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As I know just enough about computers to be dangerous and fake what I'm talking about but not really enough to actually understand them, I'm going to ask a question that runs the risk of being somewhat ill-formed: why is the state of Win 9x compatibility/emulation so poor compared to either earlier …

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Re: MiG Alley?

Posted on 2019-09-27, 12:29

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Thanks! Running the setup in Win98 compat mode solved the problem. the best I’ve managed to do is get a glitched view of the cockpit. Me too, unfortunately. But, until getting to the main menu, this game doesn't use DDraw for other than enumerating the resolutions. It changes screen resolution + …

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Re: Reasons to build XP machine

Posted on 2019-09-23, 18:50

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appiah4 wrote: There's EAX. Then there are those games that were never designed to run on multithreaded processors. Then there is the pretty sorry state of DX9 support in modern graphics hardware. Can you think of any examples of the latter two?

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Re: Reasons to build XP machine

Posted on 2019-09-23, 18:49

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You should just stop spending time on this and play games. When you find one that won't run on Windows 10, just build a XP box then. Pointless worrying about things that might not be a problem. But no, I don't think you'll find one. I play a lot of old PC games and haven't found a single one I want …

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Reasons to build XP machine

Posted on 2019-09-23, 11:39

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I’ve been wondering whether to build a dedicated XP machine. Putting aside the merits of doing that just for he fun of the hardware build, first I’m trying to decide; is there any reason to build one purely for compatibility? I’ve been trying to find XP games that won’t run on Win 10 (at least with …

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Re: MiG Alley?

Posted on 2019-09-17, 21:11

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Hmm... I think one of the compatibility modes worked for me on the installer. Alternatively you could install in a VM or a Win XP or older machine and copy the file structure over.

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MiG Alley?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 04:50

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Has anyone ever managed to get MiG Alley working with dgvoodoo on Windows 10? I’ve really been struggling with it but the best I’ve managed to do is get a glitched view of the cockpit.

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Re: MiG Alley

Posted on 2019-09-14, 04:42

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Have been fooling around with this again hoping that some combination of new GPU drivers, dxwnd updates, Windows updates would improve this state of affairs, but no luck for me so far. Anyone had any success getting this to run on Win 10 in 2019 in anything other than software rendering? I’ve …

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Re: Moving the registry around

Posted on 2019-04-11, 02:13

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by captain_koloth

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Sorry, I’m not well versed in this- can you give some more detail?

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Moving the registry around

Posted on 2019-04-06, 19:24

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There a couple of games I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time patching and compatibility mode-ing and generally messing around with such that, after many hours of effort, I can finally get them working on Windows 10 (e.g. Longbow 2). I have 2 Windows 10 PCs, but with some games I have found that …

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Late DOS/early Windows 3D 640x480 flight sims

Posted on 2019-03-08, 20:44

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Was perusing this thread and wanted to expand on it/not necro it. Specifically I’ve been trying to figure which flight sims (both air and space) from this era run in 640x480 resolution or better. For whatever reason I have found my eyes explode at 320x200 but I can handle 640x480 just fine, so I’m …

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Re: Windows 3.1 not recognizing CD-ROM

Posted on 2018-01-31, 21:50

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Disregard, I figured it out. Problem is I was mounting the .bin instead of the .cue. For anyone who has a similar problem in the future, you must load the .cue! Thanks for your help DosFreak!

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