qemu-3dfx
MESA GL/3Dfx Glide pass-through for QEMU (by kjliew)
softgpu
SW and HW accelerated GPU driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines (by JHRobotics)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
qemu-3dfx
Posts with mentions or reviews of qemu-3dfx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-08.
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SoftGPU: SW and HW accelerated driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines
There is also https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx pass-through 3D acceleration for qemu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e34mSBxDm7s
- SharedGL: An OpenGL implementation over shared memory enabling 3D acceleration in virtual machines
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Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP?
I've been porting this to Nixos all week. Handles glide emulation pretty well
https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx
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QEMU 8.0.0 released
As for 3D acceleration, I've seen this repository (no idea if it works) https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx, and I've also seen that QEMU added the "ati-vga" device, which supports the Rage 128 Pro and Radeon RV100, but those seem to be a bit WIP.
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Parallels vs Crossover on older games
And, here we also have the 3rd option which is less well-known than CrossOver and Parallel Desktop while targeting older Windows games with compatibility issues on modern Windows, QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx for Apple Silicon https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx
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CrossOver support not responding, should I try getting a refund and purchase Parallels instead?
You can check out qemu-3dfx for Apple Silicon macOS. https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx/wiki/Apple-Silicon-macOS-Prerequisites
- Virtual graphic driver for Windows 98 on QEMU/KVM?
- Using qemu-3dfx for Win9x games
- Any chance of a good D3D9 Windows XP paravirtualized driver?
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How do you emulate old Win95 games with 3dfx? And how to set up quicklaunch for it on a frontend?
If you are a true gamer from the late 90' s though, you can and probably will run into an old game that doesn't work on modern windows. PCem is really the only good option IMO, but performance is very limited. Especially with glide and 3d acceleration, even the fastest CPUs aren't able to emulate much faster than a pentium II 200mhz at voodoo 2 at full speed (if you are emulating MMX on top of that forget it). Virtualization is possible but not likely to help as win95 virtualization is very basic and doesn't do much gaming things very well. With that said, there are some pretty crazy virtualization projects out there; here is one that requires you to compile everything from source yourself for basically no reason https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx (have fun).
softgpu
Posts with mentions or reviews of softgpu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Virtualbox ndis protection error
Also check softgpu: https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu Check the section for VirualBox install.
- SoftGPU: SW and HW accelerated driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines
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[Linux Host] No microphone input on Windows 98 guest
There are none, but you may want to install something like this if you want better video / resolutions. - https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu
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Is VirtualBox still really bad with Windows 9x?
Now you have two solutions: either use VMware and get responsive graphics and sound almost out of the box (once again, no 3d) or go with Virtual Box and the experimental Softgpu. For sound, you will have to change the sound card to an AC97 and fetch the drivers for it.
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Having issues getting windows 98 to function properly
there are no guest additions for Win 9x (you don't really need them) you can sue SoftGPU if you need 3D but you need to pay attention to the instructions. https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu
What are some alternatives?
When comparing qemu-3dfx and softgpu you can also consider the following projects:
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
pcem - PCem
PCem-ROMs - This is a collection of requiered ROMs files for PCem emulator. RIP PCem 2021
VBoxHardenedLoader - VirtualBox VM detection mitigation loader
dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine
patcher9x - Patch for Windows 9x to fix CPU issues
glrage - OpenGL wrapper for the ATI 3D C Interface and DirectDraw 2
r8125-esxi - Realtek RTL8125 driver for ESXi 6.7
vmwmouse - VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.1
virtualbox-org-svn-vbox-trunk - *UNOFFICIAL* mirror of the repository at http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk (the first 30569 commits are courtesy of https://gitorious.org/virtualbox/mainlinemirror); Please **DO NOT** open pull requests against this repo
xsuspender - :eyes: :computer: :zzz: :battery: Save battery by auto-suspending unfocused X11 applications.