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First post, by ReignerDeustcher

Posted on 2020-10-28, 21:21

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Tried windows xp with a k6 2+ 500mhz and the performance was soo bad, it was unusable so i've installed windows 98 SE with an emulation of a pentium 233 MMX in it but the performance is not good, the sound stutters often and even crashed to the desktop when playing the neverhood wich is a game from 1996... i have a ryzen 5 2700x, 16gb ram so how can this be not enough for running a win98? what's the problem with pcem?

Reply 1 of 3, by 1541

Posted on 2020-10-28, 21:32

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It's not PCem's fault...
It's not a VM, but an emulator, it emulates a whole PC.
Try setting the emulated CPU to a 120 MMX model, your Ryzen will handle that one just fine.

💾 Windows 9x resources (drivers, tools, NUSB,...) 💾

Reply 2 of 3, by Jorpho

Posted on 2020-10-29, 02:51

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I think your subject line is needlessly provocative.

ReignerDeustcher wrote on 2020-10-28, 21:21:
playing the neverhood wich is a game from 1996

Are you aware that The Neverhood is playable in ScummVM? ScummVM should run just about anywhere without any problems.

Reply 3 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on 2020-10-29, 03:09

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I should also mention The Neverhood works fine here. The only case I can see it not working is if you've used a video card that doesn't have DirectX support at all (like one of the emulated exotic early SVGA cards from 91-93). Also Neverhood can work fine on P100's and the like, so probably drop down to that before writing off a fully blown software emulator of a computer as "useless"...

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