As far as I know, only old games (pre-DRM ones).
As far as I know, only old games (pre-DRM ones).
No signature provided yet.
And those are often tricky to install/run on modern Windows.Originally Posted by Ñuño Martínez
Yes, they are. Even using emulation or VMs.
No signature provided yet.
It depends on specific game.
Most common difficulty foor running old Windows games on modern Windows versions is the fact that they are saving their setting and savegames within their own folder. This is in violation with modern security standards which are enforced by Windows User Account Control (UAC) which by default blocks saving such setting and savegames within the same folder the game is installed. That is unless you changed permissions for that specific folder to allow full read and write capabilities. For this reason I have a specific folder with full read/write permission into which I install any older game.
Second most problem for running older games is that many of them used Direct Draw for their graphics. Because Direct Draw based games often use custom color palettes their graphics are not rendered properly on modern graphics cards because they can't map those custom colors properly. To solve this problems you could replace ddraw.dll with a custom one that makes sure the colors are mapped properly. Our forum member LP who is also author of Platform eXtended Library (successor of Asphyre Sphinx library) made such DLL replacement which actually works quite well. You can read more in https://www.pascalgamedevelopment.co...n-new-hardware
Old games that don't have complex 3D graphics can be easily ran within a Virtual Machine with older OS installed.. For instance I have a WMware virtual machine with Windows 98 installed in it to run some older games that I own that do have copyright protection that simply fails to work properly on modern Windows versions.
As for old MS DOS based games I most commonly use DosBox or Virtual machine with FreeDos installed in.
Sometimes I even go and turn on my old AMD K5 based computer to go and play some old games on a computer they were basically designed for
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks