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[Smiling Spectre]

VMWare have "deprecated support" for Win98, and Vogons says that there are no hardware acceleration for any non-NT Windows. (There is software acceleration though).

[Japo]

I've read otherwise about hardware acceleration elsewhere, and I've enabled the option after telling VMware it was for Win98, which generated no complaint about support. I'll let you know...

[Smiling Spectre]

Hmm... I am waiting then, thank you.

[Japo]

Well I told you the story outside the forum, ;-) if anyone else is interested I can provide the extra details...

In short, support of Win9x by VMware Player (free) is very good, provided you install the necessary "VMware Tools". The only problem was the scaling issue.

I enabled the graphic acceleration option so it should work, but I couldn't really test it with the only old game that I tried. I've read from Google that it should work, although most of the reports came from people who were emulating modern Windows versions.

[Smiling Spectre]

Originally Posted by Japo

I enabled the graphic acceleration option so it should work, but I couldn't really test it with the only old game that I tried. I've read from Google that it should work, although most of the reports came from people who were emulating modern Windows versions.

Yes, I am speaking exactly about this part. *sigh* Ok, I will try it myself then... When I'll have some free time... Thank you again!

[Japo]

If you know a program for Win9x with which I can test it quickly, I could give it a go. From Google I only read from people who just used the "Windows Experienced Index" on the guest system to determine if it was accelerated. But Win9x did not have this feature.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...perience-index

[Smiling Spectre]

We-ell... Try AI Wars, for example? It definitely can be set to hardware acceleration. First Resident Evil is another good example, but I fear, it was wonky even on real hardware, due limited selection of the videocards. Also, Recoil worked great with acceleration, I think, but I cannot remember if it takes choices or simply fallen back to software if you hadn't needed gear. Try it?