Thanks, still there is a mistake that I did and author of this project provided image-based tutorial for VMWare Player, with important step 4 of the instruction being change of virtual machine version in VMX file - see github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu#vmware-workstation-player - it does not help with Pro Rally 2001, slightly improves stuff in Midtown Madness 2 but for other games performance might increase a lot.
Well I'm afraid fast host CPU is rather needed. It also depends what we consider as 'fast'. As you can see around 13:31 on the video, I have i5-2500K 4 cores @3.30GHz, 8GB of RAM and GeForce 1050 TI so it's probably some medium-tier set as of today. I also need to tell you that I made a mistake in this video and apparently stuff can run faster if you do the step 4 from GitHub page: github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu#vmware-workstation-player - stil it does not affect my tests being Midtown Madness 2 and Pro Rally 2001, but might improve performance for other games.
@@Cpt.Zenobia I think you have to check the notes from GitHub project - github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu#vmware-workstation-player - author mentions specifying version 9 of VMware, something that you can set directly in VMX file, maybe you need to later reinstall SoftGPU on VM. I didn't do this in Ubuntu, maybe it just works there straightaway.
ok everything worked but how do i fix the vm being all glitched by this i meant around 12:28 looking i have to use fullscreen mode just to use it Edit: ive figured it out thanks for this tutorial
Hmmm, Win98 not booting any more but this mod works on Windows Me, it can run Need For Speed Porsche 2000 but the framerate is horrible on I5 3470 16GB RAM and GTX1050Ti
Hm, ok, maybe I forgot to include something. If you try to follow guides made by JHRobotics, available at - github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu?tab=readme-ov-file#vmware-workstation-player - does it make any better? He suggests to add line virtualHW.version = "9" to the VMX file of machine.
@@tntblower Yea but from my perspective it was better to go up to Windows 7 VM with 3D Acceleration despite higher requirements for the host to make it run smooth enough.
@@tntblower Hmm, XP as host? That would be extremely difficult. And XP as guest, with SoftGPU, haven't tried that so far and I don't think it would work
What tips do you have for people using newer GPU? I have to use patch9x before I can complete the install, and it causes me to be unable to instal vmware tools afterwards
Good question, I have to try and follow my own guide on another machine though I'm not sure if it can be considered as "newer GPU". Seems there's no such info provided here - github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu?tab=readme-ov-file#vmware-workstation-player
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windows 98 momentarily becomes Windows 98: Hell Edition before softgpu
I liked for "should probably hide the Windows 98 key but who cares", haha! Jokes aside, excellent tutorial!
Thanks, still there is a mistake that I did and author of this project provided image-based tutorial for VMWare Player, with important step 4 of the instruction being change of virtual machine version in VMX file - see github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu#vmware-workstation-player - it does not help with Pro Rally 2001, slightly improves stuff in Midtown Madness 2 but for other games performance might increase a lot.
do you need a fast host CPU for this like PCEM? because I was wanting to know if I could use and old ivy bridge i5 2320 and a GT 1030 with soft GPU?
Well I'm afraid fast host CPU is rather needed. It also depends what we consider as 'fast'. As you can see around 13:31 on the video, I have i5-2500K 4 cores @3.30GHz, 8GB of RAM and GeForce 1050 TI so it's probably some medium-tier set as of today. I also need to tell you that I made a mistake in this video and apparently stuff can run faster if you do the step 4 from GitHub page: github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu#vmware-workstation-player - stil it does not affect my tests being Midtown Madness 2 and Pro Rally 2001, but might improve performance for other games.
I tried this on Windows, and the GL checker tool shows GLSL version 1.2 and GL 2.1, why is it not 3.3 like yours?
@@Cpt.Zenobia I think you have to check the notes from GitHub project - github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu#vmware-workstation-player - author mentions specifying version 9 of VMware, something that you can set directly in VMX file, maybe you need to later reinstall SoftGPU on VM. I didn't do this in Ubuntu, maybe it just works there straightaway.
ok everything worked but how do i fix the vm being all glitched by this i meant around 12:28 looking i have to use fullscreen mode just to use it
Edit: ive figured it out thanks for this tutorial
Hmmm, Win98 not booting any more but this mod works on Windows Me, it can run Need For Speed Porsche 2000 but the framerate is horrible on I5 3470 16GB RAM and GTX1050Ti
Hm, ok, maybe I forgot to include something. If you try to follow guides made by JHRobotics, available at - github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu?tab=readme-ov-file#vmware-workstation-player - does it make any better? He suggests to add line virtualHW.version = "9" to the VMX file of machine.
Vmware recently went berserk with their license agreements: is there a free version of Vmware player , still ?
They still offer it.
@@LindenAshbyMK From what I see there is still possibility to download VMware Player 17
any links where i can download all the win98 sound drivers, and optimization registry
Hmmm, sorry for a very late answer, but some links are there - github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu?tab=readme-ov-file#extra-drivers
could you also do this on windows XP?
@@lottoweekendmiljonairs3621 haven't checked but I will try and share the details
windows xp vmware tools have actual hardware 3d acceleration
@@tntblower Yea but from my perspective it was better to go up to Windows 7 VM with 3D Acceleration despite higher requirements for the host to make it run smooth enough.
@@Mtik333 wait hold on i think they meant windows xp as a host but i thought guest nvm
@@tntblower Hmm, XP as host? That would be extremely difficult. And XP as guest, with SoftGPU, haven't tried that so far and I don't think it would work
What tips do you have for people using newer GPU? I have to use patch9x before I can complete the install, and it causes me to be unable to instal vmware tools afterwards
Good question, I have to try and follow my own guide on another machine though I'm not sure if it can be considered as "newer GPU". Seems there's no such info provided here - github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu?tab=readme-ov-file#vmware-workstation-player
@@Mtik333 my bad, I meant CPU, not GPU