How can I measure FPS in Windows 98 on a virtual machine?

Posted on 2024-03-08, 18:55

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I'm looking for a program to measure FPS in a virtual machine (VirtualBox 6.0.24 and VMWare Player 16.2.5) with Windows 98 and support for 256 colors. I found the very first version of Fraps (1999), but it doesn’t see any games at close range. Newer versions do not support the 256 color palette. Are …

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Re: Streets of SimCity + dxwnd + nGlide: no missions are displayed

Posted on 2024-03-05, 16:23

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hey! where are you?

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Streets of SimCity + dxwnd + nGlide: no missions are displayed

Posted on 2024-03-04, 10:07

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I decided to launch Streets of SimCity via dxwnd 2.05.97 using the nGlide wrapper, since the SimStreetsX patch did not help (crashes). But there is a problem: no missions are displayed: https://i.ibb.co/GWS5LmW/1548.png Even the patch and running with admin rights did not help. I watched a video …

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Are there any 3D-accelerated drivers for VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA video adapters?

Posted on 2024-02-11, 17:56

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I have a virtual machine in VirtualBox 6.0.24 with Windows XP SP3 and a VBoxVGA video adapter. 3D acceleration works great in it. But I decided to make two more Windows XP SP3 virtual machines, but with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA video adapters. But when installing Guest Additions (even if you do not …

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Is it true that Windows XP games work great on Windows 10?

Posted on 2024-02-08, 13:18

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I'm wondering: why do many people believe that most games created for Windows XP work fine on Windows 10? I once contacted the SoftGPU driver theme because of a problem that occurred on Windows 98 in VirtualBox 6, and I was advised to upgrade to the 7th version of the WB. In turn, I explained that …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-08, 08:28

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It's just that I'm afraid to accidentally install old libraries (suddenly the installer won't allow it) designed for old Windows, and thereby ruin my Windows 10. I haven't encountered an XP era game that ruins Windows 10, except for those that have Starforce protection, which is a relatively short …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-04, 16:22

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in the game Mickey Saves the Day on VMWare Player 16.2.5 there are no characters at all, and in The Simpsons Hit and Run Homer's car dyed black instead of pink)... ...Using a real computer is not an option. Why is that? Mickey seems to be running just fine on Windows 10, and if some issues do pop …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-03, 21:28

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I would suggest trying VirtualBox 7 as it seems SoftGPU is currently more taliored to it, rather than VirtualBox 6 or VMware. I would love to, but in VirtualBox, in addition to Windows 98, I also have Windows XP (and there, starting from version 6.1, there is no support for 3D acceleration). In …

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Re: Streets of SimCity crashes on Windows 98 (VirtualBox)

Posted on 2023-09-03, 14:26

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feda wrote on 2023-09-03, 12:22: It has no effect on Streets. Cars are still bouncing up and down. But personally, after slowing down the processor in a virtual machine, I don’t observe such a situation. However, I enabled virtualization of Intel VT-X/EPT+AMD-V/RVI, CPU performance counter and …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-03, 11:42

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When I run Windows 98 on VirtualBox 6.0.24 I get this problem: Driver update didn't help. VMSVGA video adapter. How to fix it?

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Re: Streets of SimCity crashes on Windows 98 (VirtualBox)

Posted on 2023-09-03, 08:40

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feda wrote on 2023-09-02, 17:35: Burinis wrote on 2023-09-02, 09:04: But how do I slow down the processor for a virtual machine? You can't. Not in VMWare or Virtualbox. Why? I already downloaded the CPU Grabber, adjusted the frequency in it and the virtual machine really became slower.

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-02, 13:11

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After installing the new SoftGPU driver, Windows 98 installed in VMWare Workstation Player 16.2.5 now flatly refuses to boot and writes "EMM386 Unrecoverable privileged operation error #01". https://i.ibb.co/bXsJG8Q/1559.png If I select B, the virtual machine will still not start, and if I select C, …

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Re: Streets of SimCity crashes on Windows 98 (VirtualBox)

Posted on 2023-09-02, 09:04

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Streets only supports Glide on the Voodoo and Voodoo2 out of the box, and would require the Voodoo Rush patch for any other voodoo card. however Streets has other problems that virtualizing a CPU would be infinite pain for and only properly plays on slow CPUs. If your CPU's too fast then the …

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Streets of SimCity crashes on Windows 98 (VirtualBox)

Posted on 2023-09-01, 11:49

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I made a virtual machine in VirtualBox with Windows 98 installed in it. I installed the drivers for the VMSBOX video adapter from SoftGPU (v0.4.2023.13-alpha) and the AC'97 sound card from Realtek. When I run Streets of SimCity on Windows 98 with 256 colors (in other palettes the game interface …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-08-28, 13:47

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Last step is turn off GPU10 feature, by this command: VBoxManage setextradata "My Windows 98" "VBoxInternal/Devices/vga/0/Config/VMSVGA10" "0" Windows 9x don’t like to switch GPU very much so I am recommending create new, fresh installation. This package is designed for installation on new fresh …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-08-25, 12:20

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But why for post XP? Under Windows XP, I did not find a third-party driver with 3d acceleration support. In addition, the latest versions of VirtualBox and Vmware Workstation Player no longer support their own 3D acceleration for XP. That's why I wanted to ask JH64 to port this driver to windows XP …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-08-24, 12:23

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TL;DR: VirtualBox/VMware GPU driver with OpenGL, DirectX and Glide, download: https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu/releases Update 2023-07-10: I released new version: https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu/releases/tag/v0.4.2023.13 Now works with QEMU (2D only) and with VMware with HW 3D! To enable …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-08-22, 16:28

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TL;DR: VirtualBox/VMware GPU driver with OpenGL, DirectX and Glide, download: https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu/releases Update 2023-07-10: I released new version: https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu/releases/tag/v0.4.2023.13 Now works with QEMU (2D only) and with VMware with HW 3D! To enable …

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Re: I need a 3D accelerated graphics driver on Windows XP in the latest version of VirtualBox.

Posted on 2023-08-05, 14:33

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Hey! where are you?!!

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I need a 3D accelerated graphics driver on Windows XP in the latest version of VirtualBox.

Posted on 2023-08-05, 08:12

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I did not find help on the Russian-language forums, so I will turn here. In the latest version of VirtualBox 7.0.10, I managed to install the SoftGPU driver on a virtual machine with Windows 98, thereby forcing 3D acceleration to work there. Now I need a similar driver for Windows XP, but I just …

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