Of course, one can’t ignore Virtual Box from Oracle, being one of the most popular virtualisation programs currently available. The program is incredibly versatile and can even be used as a portable version on your USB flash drive. One very useful and intuitive program is D-Fend Reloaded, which simplifies the mounting of drives and other commands by using easy to follow wizards. I have a lot of old games and everything that isn't DRM encumbered works fine in Windows 10 using dgVoodoo2 and/or some game-specific hacks (Tomb Raider 1 for example is normally a DOS game that you can play using a Glide-enabled build of DOSBox but there was also a Windows version made that used an ancient proprietary 3D API by ATI - someone reimplemented that API and placed extra hacks in there for high resolutions and widescreen support).It doesn’t just stop at vanilla DOSBox though for those who aren’t comfortable with clunky line commands, an easy to use front end or user interface can be a Godsend.
Even better, use dgVoodoo2 which is a reimplementation of DirectX 1 to 7 (with a some bits of 8) in Direct3D 11 and provides much better compatibility (also gets rid of the Direcsurface width limitation, making it possible to play games at 2560x1440 and up).įor Glide, dgVoodoo2 is also very good and you can "cheat" the game to force higher resolutions than what the game thinks it is running at. OpenGL games should run fine, some old games that used static sized buffers to hold extensions (like all Quake/Quake2 games that dump the available extension string to the console and the console having a hardcoded buffer for each line) will crash it because of how long the extension string is nowadays, but most drivers have an option to limit the string size (AFAIK Nvidia and AMD drivers check the executable name and do it automatically for known faulty games).įor Direct3D games you must use a 32bit color mode otherwise Windows 8.x/10 will force software rendering which is very slow.
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