I was trying to do an experiment video on getting Minecraft to work on windows 98 but Its doesn't work and keeps giving me an OpenGL error I have VMware tools installed. I am using VMware workstation Pro 15.5.2 and Windows 98 se.

The error is OpenGL: ERROR RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.

My PC specs:
Intel i5 8th gen quad-core
16 GB ram ddr4
1050ti 4gb

You need some sort of OpenGL emulator like Mesa, the VMware driver only provides OpenGL 1.1 which is not enough for Minecraft as seen below:


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17 hours ago, MrMateczko said:

You need some sort of OpenGL emulator like Mesa, the VMware driver only provides OpenGL 1.1 which is not enough for Minecraft as seen below:


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actually it is enough for old versions of the game

1 hour ago, SharkVader66 said:

the VMware driver only provides OpenGL 1.1 which is not enough for Minecraft as seen below

That's coming from Microsoft, not VMware (which has zero 3D acceleration support for Windows 9x). Very basic, CPU rendered, painfully slow. There is a flag that application can check if OpenGL pixel format is hardware accelerated or not, so application may reject it on that flag alone. I doubt MS library is lying about it.

opengl and direct3d do not work in windows 9x using hypervisors like vmware.  if virtualization is your only option, you need to use pcem, 86box or pcbox.  these allow you to emulate low level hardware, which also enables voodoo 3 emulation. This is necessary for opengl and directx to function.

Nowadays there's also JHRobotics' SoftGPU project https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu/

which will convert DirectX and Glide API commands to OpenGL using Mesa and then either render it on the CPU or (if you're using VMWare or VirtualBox) it can pass the GL draw calls over to the host and render them there. The overhead is too high for it to be practical for anything past late-90s games but there is some potential it could be improved.