[SOLVED] what windows os should i use on a vm for older games

[TrueGamer1258]

i have a couple of old games on disc that dont work on windows 10 (rome total war, black and white, rogue spear and grand theft auto 3. just to name a few) and i want to install a windows os that will support these games on a virtual machine. (virtualbox)

 

[Wolfshadw]

You might be able to get them running in DOSBOX. The problem (I have) with running an older OS in a virtual machine is when you don't have an activation key. You have to reload every few months or so.

-Wolf sends

 

[hectic1]

XP is from that era, but u can prolly still get some of those to work on win 10

 

[TrueGamer1258]

how?

 

[hectic1]

patches <here is a guy on youtube that plays gta 3 just fine
but I'm not sure about the other 2 cause I only played em when they were new, there prolly are fixes for those too cause they are pretty iconic games.
anyway windows XP is the best for those games if you don't wanna bother with patches and editing files.

 

[TrueGamer1258]

im talking about the disc version not the steam version of gta 3

 

[hectic1]

I can't be sure, I don't even own an optical drive that works anymore
heres this link to the gta forums, with the patches u need

 

[Wolfshadw]

You might be able to get them running in DOSBOX. The problem (I have) with running an older OS in a virtual machine is when you don't have an activation key. You have to reload every few months or so.

-Wolf sends

 

[hectic1]

You might be able to get them running in DOSBOX. The problem (I have) with running an older OS in a virtual machine is when you don't have an activation key. You have to reload every few months or so.

-Wolf sends

his games don't require dosbox, thats for much older stuff but its really useful to have it for when you do need it.

 

[TrueGamer1258]

how much ram do i need to install xp on a virtual machine.

 

[Rehan Essani]

how much ram do i need to install xp on a virtual machine.

Windows XP x64 is limited to 128 GB of physical memory and 16 terabytes of virtual memory.

 

[USAFRet]

how much ram do i need to install xp on a virtual machine.

You can devote 2GB of the hosts RAM to that VM.

 

[lordmogul]

Note that while those games all work under XP, some might even better be run on 98. For Black & White it's known that save corruption can occur under XP.