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There is no one best way to play every Windows 95 98 game, but here are some methods: Patching - Self-explanatory. Virtual machines - Works when the game isn't dependent on drivers and CPU speed. 3D Acceleration Wrapper - Is the game dependant on old graphics APIs yet can be ran on a newer OS? Welcome to the Windows 98 Game! See how long you can last in my totally messed up installation of Windows 98 before reaching the Blue Screen of Death! Click the play button when you're ready. To hear the game's audio, please use Internet Explorer. Unfortunately direct3d acceleration does not work in a lot of games. Some msdos games had also direct3d patches for win95/98. Dungeon keeper 1 and flying corps gold were among them. Graphics were much better than the dos version, with 3d acceleration and filters. You'll need a real windows 98 pc though.
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Hi r/emulation!
Wanted to get your guys's opinions on this, even though technically it may not be emulation. What is generally speaking, the best / easiest way to play some older PC games? I know DOSbox works for some, and obviously there is windows compatibility mode for others.
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One game in particular that I'm having issues with is Swarm Assault, an old RTS game by Mountain King Studios. Running Windows 10, no amount of compatibility settings gets it to play at a reasonable framerate. I'm currently playing through it using a Windows XP Virtual Machine and it's playable, but there's pretty frequent flickering of some of the sprites and seems to be no fix.
In general, what do you guys do? Setup a Windows 98 Virtual Machine and just load up games inside of that? Any compatibility hacks to run natively? Emulators?
Or, would it be better/easier to scour Craigslist postings and get an old rig for cheap, maybe throw in a high end video card for it's time and call it a day?
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