medowe Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Has anyone installed this on VirtualBox 5.1 or higher? I'm trying a few and I'm getting occasional random crashes and random complete sound loss until reboot. Is there a way to create a virtual USB stick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Aust Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 It works for me using VirtualBox 5.2.x on multiple systems using several different operating systems. Have you checked the troubleshooting section of the guide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medowe Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 On 6/21/2019 at 6:45 AM, Kurt_Aust said: It works for me using VirtualBox 5.2.x on multiple systems using several different operating systems. Have you checked the troubleshooting section of the guide? What host OS are you using? I've been doing some testing things are running ok with a Debian Host but with a Windows 7 Host, I keep getting errors everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaPbUzZ Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 um i tried virtualbox 6.1 and it didn't go well can someone please tell me the last known good version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumper Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 5.2.x on a Debian host.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Aust Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 I'd recommend sticking 5.2.x for the foreseeable future, not just for Win 98se but also because they dropped 3D graphics support for Win XP in 6.1.x 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaPbUzZ Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 (edited) oh my .... i got Virtualbox v5.02.002.38 and i had to turn off hardware virtualisation or blue screen in guest. Then when i went to put in a generic opengl display driver for 32mb memory in guest i gots another BSOD. It doesn't like my AMD cpu by the looks. the latest v6 virtualbox allows virtualisation and graphics driver doesn't bsod in guest but sound is not working properly. I found there was internet communications it turned out to be microsoft error reports about vb runtime? If i use millennium with AC97 audio its a bit better but when i go to play music or use midi it chops and mutes. Has anyone experienced virtualbox menu screen crashes with pure virtualisation error? i noticed internet traffic about that error vbox v6.x yes, its microsoft online error reporting in the background its related to its vc library support maybe broken due to security fixes in vb runtime. well, it looks pretty but i cant rely on it for audio and been to vmware land and behold i hate it too lol guess nothing beats real hardware support so i will stick to the old pc now. besides got myself a yamaha xg ymf soundcard only windows 9x supports it's hardware midi tone bank frankly ive alwys hated nt -edit- Its windows 10's fault i found out older versions of windows 10 didn't cause this to me but linux i don't use. Maybe its time. Edited December 6, 2020 by ZaPbUzZ spelling and info update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelby Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Is there usb drivers for greek edition? I found the english edition but it change the system languange to english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumper Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 (edited) Try rloew's usb mass storage driver, USB. Edited January 28, 2023 by jumper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Aust Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 Updated the guide, main change is to use the newly available SoftGPU video driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCyborg Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 I tried SoftGPU and GL Checker reports 3D HW acceleration works. I got an error from the installer that it didn't find the working PCI bus. Not sure if related, but on the old VM I was testing, USB 2.0 was enabled and NUSB drivers were installed. VM was run with VirtualBox 7.0.10 (current version ATM). Still, games are very slow, about 20 - 50 FPS in Half-Life in OpenGL mode in Hazard Course. Task Manager on the host indicated GPU's 3D capabilities were in use. Half-Life is pretty primitive, I guess anything more demanding would be a slideshow. In fact, even Half-Life's D3D renderer ran at about 10 FPS or less, that's all in 640x480. Haven't used such low resolution in practice in many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Aust Posted August 11, 2023 Author Share Posted August 11, 2023 (edited) On 8/10/2023 at 5:45 PM, UCyborg said: I tried SoftGPU and GL Checker reports 3D HW acceleration works. I got an error from the installer that it didn't find the working PCI bus. Not sure if related, but on the old VM I was testing, USB 2.0 was enabled and NUSB drivers were installed. VM was run with VirtualBox 7.0.10 (current version ATM). Still, games are very slow, about 20 - 50 FPS in Half-Life in OpenGL mode in Hazard Course. Task Manager on the host indicated GPU's 3D capabilities were in use. Half-Life is pretty primitive, I guess anything more demanding would be a slideshow. In fact, even Half-Life's D3D renderer ran at about 10 FPS or less, that's all in 640x480. Haven't used such low resolution in practice in many years. The guide as written is meant for a new install, I can't know what legacy issues might be in an existing Win 98se VM. However the failed PCI bus is a known issue when using SoftGPU on QEMU, as indicated of the main SoftGPU page. Your best bet for advice on performance limitations is to ask there and hopefully get a response from the creator of SoftGPU. Still in the end it is just an advanced software driver/GPU, it can't be expected to achieve the performance of real physical GPU. Now if you're agnostic about how you get to playing old games that no longer work on modern versions of Windows, you may want to consider a Linux distribution. Counter-intuitive I know, but I've gotten good results playing older games on Linux Mint using the Play on Linux front end for WinE. For one thing it sends the graphics commands to your actual physical hardware, for instance it had no problems running King's Bounty: Armoured Princess (including the 3D effects) on my system (i7-5930K, 32GB RAM, GTX 960-4G). Edited August 11, 2023 by Kurt_Aust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCyborg Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 There's nothing particularly special about the old VM, it was setup few years ago (2018-2020) with Win98 SE, drivers, KernelEx 4.5.2, VLC Player and practically left alone ever since, so technically it's still fresh install. Guess I could start again from zero and use USB 1.1 instead and no KernelEx (the latter is disabled by default on current install, though). I suspect "broken PCI bus" doesn't really have anything to do with performance, turning off 3D acceleration in VirtualBox slows down things further. 3D performance was always poor in my experience in both VirtualBox and VMware, even on supported OS. Anyway, I just tried it out of curiosity, not for seriously running games on it. All my old games work on Windows 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Aust Posted September 11, 2023 Author Share Posted September 11, 2023 Changes -11 Sep 2023 Updated SoftGPU to v0.4.2023.19-alphaAdded Visual C++ 2008 and .NET Framework 2.0 to the installed applicationsAdded more terminal commands and adjusted the guide in order be able to install on AMD Zen2 Host CPUs (still unstable though)Found fix for Media Player Classic showing a black screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Aust Posted September 19, 2023 Author Share Posted September 19, 2023 Changes - 19 Sep 2023 Added support for the Revolutions PackWrote a script for Windows users to apply the required VM settingsIncluded updated info from JHRobotics in the VMWare Player install guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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