[SOLVED] Can I Play old games?

[spummerr]

How old of games can you play on windows 10?
How would I tell if a game would play ok?
Thank You

 

[william p]

There are people playing GrandPrix Legends from 1998 on Windows 10. But that title has received cult level support from the enthusiasts. Other games IDK really. But I think it answers the first part of your question.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvzyRsPPd-4

 

[NotWD]

Generally speaking, as long as the game in question doesn't do anything fancy with the Windows API, it should run fine on 10. I've had issues with some games designed for Vista though, with the most notable being Sacred 2 bringing the whole rig down if not run in compatibility mode.

 

[TerryLaze]

How old of games can you play on windows 10?
How would I tell if a game would play ok?
Thank You

As old as it goes you can play the oldest dos games no problem using DosBox.
You would go to google with the game title and add on windows 10 at the end and see what's up,there are a lot of fixes out there some games just need a new installer because the old one only works on 16bit other games need to be patched others need a whole new engine to run the old files.

As notWD already pointed out old games are not so much of a problem as relatively recent games.

 

[spummerr]

A game I'm looking at says
PC MPC DOS CD-ROM
any problem loading/playing this?

 

[wpgwpg]

If you have old 16 bit Windows games, they will not run on the 64 bit version of Windows. But it's been a long time since 16 bit games for Windows were in wide use, so hopefully you won't run into any of those.

 

[NotWD]

If you have old 16 bit Windows games, they will not run on the 64 bit version of Windows.

Not natively. They might run in DOSbox if they're DOS CD-ROM games.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

If you have old 16 bit Windows games, they will not run on the 64 bit version of Windows. But it's been a long time since 16 bit games for Windows were in wide use, so hopefully you won't run into any of those.

There are a large number of 32-bit games that used older 16-bit installers that also will not work (directly) in a 64-bit environment.

 

[DSzymborski]

You can play a lot of old games on DOSBox. I was just playing this, from 1989 when I was 11.

 

[gamerk316]

There are a large number of 32-bit games that used older 16-bit installers that also will not work (directly) in a 64-bit environment.

Technically, the games will run if you can find a way to set them up without going through the installer.

As a general rule, pcgamingwiki.com is a very good source for finding ways to get specific titles running. I've used it extensively in recent years for figuring out how to get a multitude of my old games running stable.

Aside from that, any title with a DOS executable can/should be run via DOSBOX. That generally covers most of the Win16 apps that you can't run on 64-bit versions of windows. Everything else typically works with some fiddling; if nothing else Microsoft is good about keeping their legacy APIs stable.

Worst case, you can spin up a VM for either Win98SE or WinME to get those legacy titles running.

 

[TerryLaze]

Worst case, you can spin up a VM for either Win98SE or WinME to get those legacy titles running.

Since you brought it up.
https://digiex.net/threads/digiex-e...irtual-machine-for-use-with-older-games.1022/

(you need screen doctor(included in the above package) to make windows 98 think you have a decent VGA adaptor with more than 16colors)