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sircharles32 wrote:I'd actually suggest not running in a VM.
I personally have done side by side comparisons with an XP VM, running on Linux Mint (VMware Workstation Player vr 12.x) versus bare metal XP.
A lot of my older games, particularly, those that required OpenGL (Jedi Knight II/III come to mind), worked fine on bare metal, but had severe issues with trying to use the virtualized hardware acceleration. Hell, even trying to run The Sims 3 in a VM was horrible compared to bare metal.
Waco wrote:sircharles32 wrote:I'd actually suggest not running in a VM.
I personally have done side by side comparisons with an XP VM, running on Linux Mint (VMware Workstation Player vr 12.x) versus bare metal XP.
A lot of my older games, particularly, those that required OpenGL (Jedi Knight II/III come to mind), worked fine on bare metal, but had severe issues with trying to use the virtualized hardware acceleration. Hell, even trying to run The Sims 3 in a VM was horrible compared to bare metal.
Odd. I've yet to find a game that doesn't work properly in a VMware VM, but I have to admit I haven't tried a huge number of OpenGL games but the ones I did try worked fine.
I'll fire up Jedi Knight later to see if they've fixed these issues.
EDIT: Jedi Knight 2 seems to have no trouble at all.
BobbinThreadbare wrote:I've had great success using VirtualBox for an XP emulator. This is all games of DX6 an earlier or possibly OpenGL prior to 2 (certainly 3).
Anything newer than that and I would expect it to work in modern windows.
captaintrav wrote:Probably, but I'd rather run anything of the DirectX9 era on XP for the nostalgia factor, and I can have one box for all my old titles.
just brew it! wrote:I'm actually a little nostalgic for the MS-DOS days TBH.
Waco wrote:just brew it! wrote:I'm actually a little nostalgic for the MS-DOS days TBH.
I can't argue with that. It was nice knowing exactly what was going on.