What's the best Windows in terms of overall combability with games from 1995 to at least 2014? Win 7?
What's the best Windows in terms of overall combability with games from 1995 to at least 2014? Win 7?
Idk nigga I ain't bill gates
XP
But I thought XP can't use Directx 11?
XP since most of that period is from 2000-2010 when NT 5 made up 90% of desktop OS marketshare. Most 9x games should work on it and a lot of early 2010s work on it as well.
Most games didn't use directx11 or at least didn't require it at the time because of XP. Its the same reason DX10 never got adopted for widespread use at all.
I don't have any problems playing old games on windows 10.
What are some games that really won't play on it?
xp if you want to play dos shit
win 7 is ok for early 2000s but then shit start to break
i didn't even try to play old shit on win10 unless the game i'm playing has some modern source port for it
The problem is the 95-96 era had a lot of 16-bit stuff in there, so you need a 32-bit Windows for that (I run a PCem machine for that stuff). Otherwise, I've had a lot of compatibility with 11. Even stuff anons swear won't run on 10, I've gotten to work.
Linux with PCem as a backup for anything too jank
Have you heard of our lord and saviour, dgvoodoo2?
i didn't even try to play old shit on win10 unless the game i'm playing has some modern source port for it
Most anons are too dumb to use PCGW.
Most game work but some are kind of broken, and others have that annoying weird half assed windowed ALMOST fullscreen (seriously wtf microsoft), Also I fucking hate Win 10
only a handfull of them, you can also use Virtualbox for them or any other virtual machine
I know, but not every game will work with on 10 compared on 7
tranny
Most games released up until 2015 ran on DX9.
But in all honesty, if you want to play ye olde bidya james, Linux is the superior choice.
The Kernel itself still has drivers for some Voodoo 1 era drivers, and thus runs many obsolete gaming techs natively.
Anything that uses DX8 or prior.
Is there any difference in which distro? Also how would I do it? I have 2nd HDD of 6TB full with games preinstalled, do I just through Wine on every on of them and configure them so they will work?
No windows version supports games from 95 to 2014 in the same version, your best bet would be to install that old computer emulator and run the games there, since most of those old computer games need specific hardware and software to run and they had been developed in a way that isn't compatible with newer versions.
Windows 12 will drop this year btw
4 rupees have been placed in your LinuxCorp account, bootlicker.
bullshit, aside from maybe 10 games that really are 16 bit exes (which can't run on 64 bit windows) everything works on 7
Linux unironically
Some have 16 bit installers but those weird hybrid main executables which do run on a 32 bit system.
Some have 16 bit installers
Which you easliy can cercumvent by copying everything from a disk (if it isn't a installation folder) to a folder and replace the setup.exe with one of those 32bit setup.exe you can find online
nta but you can just install Linux on some partition of your main HDD/SSD and then access your second one that has games without any problems
If they don't require any weird register entries they should work out of the box
You can either have shared Wine prefix or individual Wine / Proton prefix for each game
Distros don't really matter, just use something that is user friendly like Mint or Ubuntu
Even stuff compressed back then was Microsoft COMPRESS, so you can hax extract it.
I'm samefagging, but it doesn't even require haxing. Apparently 11 still includes expand.
implying Bill Gates had any involvement with meaningful software dev after Win 95
He's a bigger fraud than Jobs and that's saying something
Gentoo Loonix using wine
It's easier to just install it in a 98 VM for me. Often it isn't even necessary to export the registry entries.
One way or another NT5 is pretty good and remained in widespread use for way more than anyone was expecting. Some PCs still are running it.
This wouldn't be a problem if compatibility mode actually worked.
Windows 12 will fix all of this. Then Windows 13 will retroactively undo all compatibility patches
I've shown raging faggots how a game that "absolutely requires Windows 7 or lower to run" will run on 11. It might take reading PCGW, but that should be expected for older games.
Windows 10 and 11 are cancer and not every game has problems or fixes reported on PCGW
It might take reading PCGW
isn't windows supposed to just work?
Go tarball your pine and grep your sendmale.
have you tried speaking like a human?
I'M COMPILING MY CORN COB
This isn't OSX
even if you say its true(lets assume it is( you still use win11
not worth it
Works on my machine.™
I don't have the autistic fixations on diagonal task bars that you weirdos do.
good for you i guess
Works on my machine.™
actually it is
Works on my machine but it might take a couple of wiki articles to achieve that ™
This isn't OSX
meh, legacy crap
I bet you also use Intel CPU and active cooling, just gross
It is called macOS these days
7 with dosbox, or XP. Just dont even attempt XP64.
They'll work fine on both 7 and 10 with enough work. Treat PCGamingWiki as holy text and you're all set
Windows XP is fine, but you need two things:
CD Drive Emulator like DaemonTools and be able to set it to specific drive letter. Because some games require CD to be a certain drive letter, like D: or E:. Also, you have to install them to C: drive.
DOSBox. This will let you run a lot of games. Some of them are not made for Windows, and even Win XP or 2000 are too modern.
Also some games can only be run in their native system with some software installed. For example Fallen Haven II requires Windows 98 with MS Office 98 installed.
Unironically: Arch.
Windows11 and install a VM with XP
No, it's OS XV now. Because Apple in their infinite wisdom +1 the version instead of point release now.