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Support for older systems than Windows Vista/7/8/10/11 #16

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MrPepka opened this issue Sep 24, 2024 · 3 comments
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Support for older systems than Windows Vista/7/8/10/11 #16

MrPepka opened this issue Sep 24, 2024 · 3 comments

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@MrPepka
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MrPepka commented Sep 24, 2024

First of all, I would like to thank you for this driver and the work put into it
I would like to ask (due to the fact that the project refers to qemu-3dfx, among others) whether this driver also supports Windows systems older than Vista/7/8/10/11? I am most interested in supporting Windows XP because it is difficult to find any VM software (apart from the paid QEMU-3dfx) that would be compatible with XP and at the same time allow you to play older 3D games, and there is no driver compatible with VirGL that would be compatible with XP

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Theoretically speaking, since XP supports OpenGL, the (Mesa/Virgl) + Virglrenderer setup as an OpenGL backend implementation should also be able to support XP.
I'm curious, do you play old games because of nostalgia?

@nooodles2023
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With some luck, it might only be necessary to rewrite the device driver, as the current driver code only runs on Windows 10 and above.

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MrPepka commented Sep 28, 2024

Thanks for the answer. Yes, I like to go back to old games from time to time, but at the same time I'm tired of constantly fixing them (especially games that can't be fixed with cracks, patches or wrappers like dgvoodoo2 or dxvk), so I'm looking for a VM with XP that will run 3D games so I can have peace and quiet and just install the game and run it like before

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