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

Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:55

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So I tried setting up SoftGPU on Windows 95. I have used both VMware & Virtualbox due to various reasons. The installation was fine, Installed the driver manually as was advised to do. although first few attempts, I had a black screen, and could hear audio, but eventually booting to safe mode, …

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

Posted on 2024-04-16, 21:51

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VirtualBox 7.0.16 was released. And fixed some SVGA bugs , but this needs to do small settings change: If you do fresh SoftGPU install (or update), please uncheck DX flags (VBox <= 7.0.14) checkbox. If you have SoftGPU already installed, run extras/tune/vbox-optimize-7.0.16.reg on SoftGPU CD/ …

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

Posted on 2024-04-15, 09:27

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This is incredible! Pretty much every game I have run on vGPU10 has worked with a playable framerate at 1024x768 or at minimum 800x600! Thats way more than I can say for PCem. I haven't noticed any graphical glitches either (beyond known known issues like table fog, etc). My only issue is that in …

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

Posted on 2024-04-13, 08:33

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I've tested the latest SoftGPU release (supporter edition) with latest VirtualBox version/Win98SE/vGPU10/Hyper-V disabled/tweaks applied on GTA III/GTA San Andreas/3DMark03 and it is very nice that there are no more visual glitches. The performance in GTA III/GTA San Andreas isn't that great, even …

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

Posted on 2024-03-27, 18:32

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PCI passthrough: It is one of the most problematic things that can be done within virtualization. Especially when it's done with HW that wasn't designed for it. If you want to do this, you need to have hardware that supports IOMMU isolation, Linux as the host operating system, a free slot for the …

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

Posted on 2024-03-27, 11:06

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Hello, sorry for delay between releases, but new release of SoftGPU is finally here . The biggest news is full functional support for vGPU10, but unfortunately, as it turned out, it is not faster than vGPU9. The difference is especially in DX6 applications, where the difference is bit heavy. …

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

Posted on 2023-08-31, 10:42

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Hello, information about new release is already here :-) Only few notes: - If you turn on GPU gen. 10, you can run 3Dmark03 and 3Dmark2001 without any glitches, and some DirectX9 games too (Colin McRae Rally 3, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2). But implementation in VirtualBox isn’t complete yet, so …

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

Posted on 2023-07-09, 16:00

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Something that may or may not be useful for softGPU but for Vmware Workstation if you set the hardware version of the VM to 9 or lower then 3D acceleration will work on Windows 2000 on even on the latest versions of Vmware workstation. Thanks! That's what I was looking for! This + change operation …

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

Posted on 2023-05-27, 23:24

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The goal of my project is the creation of GPU driver for Virtual Windows 9x supporting DirectX/OpenGL/Glide acceleration. Current state: only VirtualBox is working decently and only OpenGL is accelerated natively (DirectX and Glide are translating to OpenGL with WineD3D, resp. OpenGlide). I …

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

Posted on 2023-05-18, 21:40

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With the latest version (softgpu-0.4.2023.11 - using SVGA3D): 3DMark03 - Character models still missing, applying the MaxShaderModelVS workaround throws an error message: Could not create vertex shader - Invalid call GTA SA - Works fine with the workaround! I should have probably noted that I am …

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

Posted on 2023-05-16, 09:01

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Please try latest version of SoftGPU, you may have encountered the R5G6B5 bug, newer version may work well. Yes, with the new version dxdiag works fine in VirtualBox 6.0, thanks. Tested Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (DX8, 2002). Without -nomovie command line argument it soon freezes, with -nomovie …

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

Posted on 2023-05-14, 12:13

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A free and non-cringe version of qemu-3dfx ? Count me interested! Can this be adopted outside of Virtual Machines? I guess my dream to run GTA IV on Windows 98SE might be a reality :D If I find some time in those busy times, I'll test this with my Core i3-12100F on both VirtualBox (was always the …

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

Posted on 2023-05-14, 09:39

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Thanks for responses, there are currently 2 bugs directly in VirtualBox: Wrong mouse pointer locking – if application in guest OS change resolution multiple times, mouse pointer is moving on lesser area then window or conversely it is moving outsize screen surface. Workaround is simple – press the …

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Re: Windows 9x: There is not enough memory available to run this program (when there is plenty of memory)

Posted on 2023-04-24, 13:03

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Hello, here are my 3 tips for cause of out of memory if here is still enough free ram: 1) Driver needs continuous physical space, but ram is too fragmented so it can’t fit – but drivers allocating memory at runtime was rare in 9x era. (My 3D driver needs one or more 32 MB block and after few app/ …

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Re: Patch for Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me to run on newest CPUs

Posted on 2023-04-14, 21:54

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@JH64 Sorry if this is a dumb question or if this has been answered before, but the TLB patch would offer any benefit to a old PC running Win9x natively? Will this patch will make it more more stable? Or this only apply to a virtual machine? For 98 SE and Me no, TLB bug only affect new CPUs. …

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Re: Patch for Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me to run on newest CPUs

Posted on 2023-04-12, 10:01

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Yes, Hyper-V is basically optional system service. Virtualization software have usually 2 options – implement its own virtualization engine, which is system driver, because some instruction requires RING0 execution (btw: on Windows must be this driver digitally signed by Microsoft, so this is very …

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Re: Patch for Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me to run on newest CPUs

Posted on 2023-04-12, 00:57

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And finally, another possible bug: if VirtualBox is not running natively but under WHPX ( Microsoft's Hyper-V and the Windows Hypervisor Platform ). Beside incredibly slow I/O performance makes this error: Near half of games can’t be installed because installer makes page fault in _WUTL951.DLL. You …

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Re: Patch for Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me to run on newest CPUs

Posted on 2023-04-12, 00:18

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Larger problem was that code is in file VMM.VXD which is part of WMM32.VXD which is compressed archive of more drivers generated specifically for your HW configuration by installer. Can you explain how this file works and what it contains? I sometimes use CompactFlash cards with Windows 98 on them …

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Re: Patch for Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me to run on newest CPUs

Posted on 2023-04-11, 23:50

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Sorry for less updating, I was a bit busy… (but on other hand I created this: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=93671 => if you need 3D driver under virtual machine). On Monday I published new version of Patcher, found some bugs, command line argument are now less more confusing and there …

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

Posted on 2023-04-11, 00:06

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TL;DR: VirtualBox/VMware GPU driver with OpenGL, DirectX and Glide, download: https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu/releases Update 2024-04-13: Current version: SoftGPU 0.5.2024.29 Changelog: - Wine works on Windows 95 - OpenGlide works with MiniGL wrappers - Driver: VIDEOPARAMETERS support - SVGA/ …

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