I also have Hyper-V disabled, vbox virt. interface = default.
This notebook has combined intel + nvidia RTX A2000
You didn't noticed any stability problems?

Check history, i once completely broke it just by game exit, my theory is bad refresh rate.. after that all good..
Dual graphics are not great, some bios have possibility to force Geforce all the time, some dont.

I can only say that for me its working, as for others.. I did not installed it from the scratch to save time, i just used old virtual machine image.. Once you install clean system can make whole virtual disk back up.
Hardest part is really force new Vmware PCI driver in device manager instead of original Vmware one.. installer never did it for me.

What you mean by "force new Vmware PCI driver in device manager instead of original Vmware one"?
Replacing a driver from your old installation? In my case it just installed driver from SoftGPU package instead std. VGA driver.

Vmware driver is part of Virtual machine additions.. and when new modified SoftGPU driver is installed, old version is still used.. You can check it by driver date.. SoftGPU is 202x . Im not sure maybe its virtual graphics card even compatible with some in-build Win98 SE not VGA driver.. Its worth to check it, i had to force to use it and point it once more to drivers on ISO..

Another thing just occurred to me: instead of openglide, wouldn't grover be better? I mean, the code for that has been available, albeit unimplemented into mesa. And rather than a layer, it is a native glide driver!

I didn't install any drivers / additions to my fresh intallation. I only used SoftGPU ISO and the VGA driver is reported to be VMWare SVGA-II PCI Adapter 4.0 (vmwsmini.*)

BTW I cannot enable 3D acceleration in Virtualbox graphics options. I can click that checkbox under Graphics Controller: VMSVGA (as suggested to choose on github) but Virtualbox complains this adapter is not compatible with 3D accel option and it will be ignored or it is suggested to switch to VboxVGA controller. If I choose it then Win98 detects new Vbox VGA PCI adapter and looks for driver so I pointed to mounted SoftGPU ISO and driver installed. Now the adapter is reported to be Vbox VGA PCI Adapter 4.0 (boxvmini.*). GLchecker reports renderer: llvmpipe 6.1, 128b and the Blendermark performance is the same as with vmware driver (46-50FPS in 1024x768/32bpp). I will see if it improve stability some way...

MechanicalSanity wrote on 2023-06-15, 13:47:

Another thing just occurred to me: instead of openglide, wouldn't grover be better? I mean, the code for that has been available, albeit unimplemented into mesa. And rather than a layer, it is a native glide driver!

Define better.
So you're volunteering getting it merged and maintaining it as well as testing Linux and Windows compatibility? Great if so. If not do you expect the op to and then expect virtualbox and vmware to work with it?
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/me … _requests/14862

DosFreak wrote on 2023-06-15, 16:20:

Define better. So you're volunteering getting it merged and maintaining it as well as testing Linux and Windows compatibility? […]
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MechanicalSanity wrote on 2023-06-15, 13:47:

Another thing just occurred to me: instead of openglide, wouldn't grover be better? I mean, the code for that has been available, albeit unimplemented into mesa. And rather than a layer, it is a native glide driver!

Define better.
So you're volunteering getting it merged and maintaining it as well as testing Linux and Windows compatibility? Great if so. If not do you expect the op to and then expect virtualbox and vmware to work with it?
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/me … _requests/14862

I say better because mesa has already been implemented into this thing, and grover is just pretty much an addon for mesa. Putting those two together does not appear to be that hard, but I could be wrong. I am just throwing out ideas that could potentially make the life of the creator easier.

Wow, I can't believe this exists. Using softgpu, I just tested GTA III on Windows 98 SE in VMware 17 and it's actually sort of playable (15-20 FPS) using software rendering.

Thank you for starting this project, JH64.

After witnessing the mess of that *other* project this is a very welcome breath of fresh air. Now if there was only a way to enable hardware acceleration on VMware... I will definitely donate when that's possible.

Edit: The Sims doesn't work: screenshot of the error ("invalid page in DWINE.DLL")

Was playing around with Windows 2000 in vmware workstation today and noticed that the XP drivers are newer than the 2000 drivers.

Extracted vmwogl32.dll from tools-WinPreVista and placed in the Q3 directory

vmwogl32.dll for XP v2.6.3.0
Quake 3 reports 2.1 Mesa 10.0 git - 5da4fa2

vmwogl32.dll for 2k v2.3.4.0
Quake 3 reports 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel git - d6c318e

DosFreak wrote on 2023-05-28, 00:23:

Something that may or may not be useful for softGPU but for Vmware Workstation if you set the hardware version of the VM to 9 or lower then 3D acceleration will work on Windows 2000 on even on the latest versions of Vmware workstation.

Thanks! That's what I was looking for! This + change operation system to Win2k do the trick. I hope I'll create new release tonight supporting HW 3D in VMware 😀

This is really cool, but I'm a dunce when it comes to setting these things up. Whenever I run this line:

VBoxManage setextradata "Windows 98" "VBoxInternal/Devices/vga/0/Config/VMSVGA10" "0"

and I go to start up my VirtualBox, I'm greeted with this error:

"Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows 98.

Invalid configuration for vga device (VERR_PDM_DEVINS_UNKNOWN_CFG_VALUES).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}"

Oddly, I was able to set up the entire thing without having to use the VBoxManage line, and when I run the GL Checker, it appears I have hardware acceleration as well. I'm running VirtualBox 6.0.24 r139119, I'm not sure if the version has anything to do with the error. I haven't done much testing on games thus far; the only game I've attempted to install and run was Quake II, which failed hard. All I got was a small box with a gray screen that just hung before I had to ctrl-alt-del it, and I'm unsure whether or not this has to do with the fact I wasn't able to use the VBoxManage line, or if there's something else I'm missing. Other than that, I've followed the instructions to a T.

EriolGaurhoth wrote on 2023-07-15, 12:48:

VBoxManage setextradata "Windows 98" "VBoxInternal/Devices/vga/0/Config/VMSVGA10" "0"

This line is only needed for VBox 7.0 as explained here:
https://github.com/JHRobotics/mesa9x
Quake II boots fine for me in VBox 6.0.

angrylion wrote on 2023-07-15, 18:08:

This line is only needed for VBox 7.0 as explained here:
https://github.com/JHRobotics/mesa9x
Quake II boots fine for me in VBox 6.0.

Played around with it and got it working, was using a really old version of Quake II, after a newer patch everything works perfectly! I'm so happy this thing exists 😀

JH64 wrote on 2023-07-09, 16:00:

DosFreak wrote on 2023-05-28, 00:23:

Something that may or may not be useful for softGPU but for Vmware Workstation if you set the hardware version of the VM to 9 or lower then 3D acceleration will work on Windows 2000 on even on the latest versions of Vmware workstation.

Thanks! That's what I was looking for! This + change operation system to Win2k do the trick. I hope I'll create new release tonight supporting HW 3D in VMware 😀

about windows version tricks, i had test different versions windows on vmware 3d performance with 3dmark, windows xp-vista version of 3d vgpu stopped being developed, i think xp version and 2000 version are same.
the thing is xp version gives very poor performance and stutters, 3dmark2001 scores are
native 53652

xp 7948 24 fps in game
vista 47635 193 fps
win7 51470 221 fps

if somehow tricking vmware with windows 7-8-10 vm settings (w7+ version of vgpu) with windows 98 vm, the 3d performance would go 2-10 times depending directx version.

angrylion wrote on 2023-07-15, 18:08:

This line is only needed for VBox 7.0 as explained here: https://github.com/JHRobotics/mesa9x Quake II boots fine for me in VBox […]
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EriolGaurhoth wrote on 2023-07-15, 12:48:

VBoxManage setextradata "Windows 98" "VBoxInternal/Devices/vga/0/Config/VMSVGA10" "0"

This line is only needed for VBox 7.0 as explained here:
https://github.com/JHRobotics/mesa9x
Quake II boots fine for me in VBox 6.0.

This is not related, but you're the legendary angrylion! The guy who created the most accurate N64 rdp thus far! I was not aware that you were a fan of retro PC emulation!

This thing is marvelous

Have it installed on a Windows ME VM on VirtualBox 7.0.x and can run all the classic Quake games (+ some source ports ⚡, also except Quake IV of course), Kingpin, Diablo II (on Glide mode), Jazz Jackrabbit 2, NFS II SE (with Glide) , DOSBox (with a Windows 3.1 install configured to start on the autoexec part 😃 ), some emulators (ZSNES, Snes9x, Kega, Gens, NO$GBA, etc) and a few other old Windows games that are a bit niche but i still like a lot (Spider Solitaire, DXBall 1 & 2, ElastoMania, MarbleDrop, The Incredible Toon Machine, etc)

Looking forward to see what else can i run on that 😁

Uberphawx wrote on 2023-07-18, 21:16:

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This thing is marvelous

Have it installed on a Windows ME VM on VirtualBox 7.0.x and can run all the classic Quake games (+ some source ports ⚡, also except Quake IV of course), Kingpin, Diablo II (on Glide mode), Jazz Jackrabbit 2, NFS II SE (with Glide) , DOSBox (with a Windows 3.1 install configured to start on the autoexec part 😃 ), some emulators (ZSNES, Snes9x, Kega, Gens, NO$GBA, etc) and a few other old Windows games that are a bit niche but i still like a lot (Spider Solitaire, DXBall 1 & 2, ElastoMania, MarbleDrop, The Incredible Toon Machine, etc)

Looking forward to see what else can i run on that 😁

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Just a question...
Can you make your driver compatible with NT 3.51/4?
Thanks

Thanks for the review. Looks like it'll work very well once configured properly.

I'm honestly quite impressed. The only painful parts are the install process because for some reason VMware is really damn slow in the BIOS, and by extension DOS. Like words cannot describe how unusable video is during install. Is this a VMware thing? Where the vesa fallback stuff just doesn't work at all, and even DOS games lock up VMware.

Unreal is broken in 32bit rendering using the direct3D render on virtualbox 7.0.10 r158379