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I only had an underpowered laptop that could barely play modern games.
I would like to point out that not all modern games have stupidly high requirements, and I might argue that the ones that do could actually optimise their shit to work on lower spec machines.
The main problem was Siege with my friends over lockdown. Even on the lowest settings my framerate would drop whenshootouts happened on screen.
I hooked it up to the TV recently and got through Pseudoregalia fine. It would handle any modern 2D or basic 3D game alright.
I also tried Art of Rally, and whilst it works, I had to turn all the settings down. That is such a beautiful game that low settings don't do it justice
That's fair man
Wine is kinda magical. I really like this old 16bit Windows 3.x game "Castle of The Winds" (topdown, turn based, roguelike) which doesn't run on any 64bit windows as is (though, you CAN, with https://github.com/otya128/winevdm, but iirc it was a bit finicky).
Wine runs CoTW fine, seemingly.
windows can still play castle of the winds? i play it all the time. In fact, i just booted it up again a moment ago to make sure it didnt break recently or something. I dont remember ever having any issues playing it, and ive played it off and on for decades. In fact, googling real quick, it looks like my abandonware even has a "easy installer" for it.
I tested the game quite a bit and found it not working, and after some digging around I found some tidbits that 64bit windows' lack the old systems to run 16bit apps.
Kinda sounds like the installer supplied winevdm or similar with the game. Pretty nice of them, tbh.
I did something similar just the other day.
As a kid I really enjoyed Populous The Beginning. I only ever had the demo version. I later bought the game on GOG, but it never ran that well on my computer. You had to use software based graphics acceleration so it didn’t look right, would have issues with the sound, and crash fairly often.
Tried it through Lutris the other day and it just works. Flawlessly. The graphics look right, there are no audio distortions, and so far I’ve not crashed at all. I’d like to figure out how to get it to run in windowed mode, and then I’ll be satisfied.
Big win for WINE.
I'm pretty sure compatibility mode in Windows hasn't actually done anything after Windows 7. There were a few games and programs I had running on Win7 using the XP compatibility mode, but using the same setting on Win10 did nothing.
Windows 10 also seemed to be the time many games started needing community made patches to run even if the game worked fine on 7.
You can fix the top corner thing with gamescope.
Thanks. I'll give that a go because that's the only issue I have with games now
Makes me wonder if you can run WINE on Windows with WSL...
Some games do have better performance with dxvk on Windows.
Super cool from a games preservation perspective!
Yeah, I have a similar situation with Borderlands 2 not running on my machine with Windows 7 but running just fine in Linux with Proton (which is Steam's branch of Wine).
It seems to me that Linux with Wine is actually better at backwards compatibility for Windows applications than Windows itself.
PS: Also a handful of old games I have from GoG that wouldn't run on Windows run just fine with Wine on Linux.
I figure since WINE is already faking being windows, it's easier to fake what type of Windows it is. By comparison, Windows has a lot of it's own problems
According to Wikipedia, Devastation was also released for Linux. Might even be included in the package you found.
I'll have to hunt around for it. MyAbandonWare only has the windows version, thanks for the tip
Good luck 🤞
I'm super frustrated that for some reason, Sid Meyer's SimGolf doesn't run on any emulation or modern hardware. It was just a friggin windows 95 game!! I have no idea what's so special about it.
If you want to play it and get really desperate you could try a VM running 95 or 98 but that's a lot of setup
Not really a solution for the game specifically, but there's a spiritual-successor of sorts for it, "Golftopia". It is a bit scifi/neon themed, but does a similar thing.
I got it about a year ago and I've been playing it again recently. It's okay.
Have you tried a virtual machine? It should work.