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   Annie (anniethebruce@easymode.im)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 12:56:20 JST Annie

   Is there any QEMU or KVM feature that would allow me to run old(think late 90s early 00s) games in a VM on an era appropriate OS? I doubt things like Windows 98 have drivers for the RX6400 I'm passing through, so actual hardware 3d acceleration might be off the table, but maybe Zen3 is enough to fake it in software for games of that era?

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 12:56:19 JST iced depresso

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     @anniethebruce lavapipe tries to software emulate some later generation graphics, but i haven't used it.
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     Annie (anniethebruce@easymode.im)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 12:57:50 JST Annie

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     @icedquinn@blob.cat I'll have to look into it.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 12:57:50 JST iced depresso

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     @anniethebruce would manage expectations. even an old GTX 960 is equivalent to some 300+ entire computers from the 90s (according to demosceners who were tinkering with raytracing again in the modern era, before rtx units)
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 12:59:05 JST iced depresso

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     @anniethebruce they *might* run in wine or reactos, depending on how old. reactos does have handfuls of old DX9 era games working.
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     Annie (anniethebruce@easymode.im)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 12:59:06 JST Annie

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     • iced depresso

     @icedquinn@blob.cat The idea is I want to replicate my gaming setup from the era... I'd do it with actual hardware, but can't really afford that. A virtual machine, though, might capture more of the experience than WINE does(assuming those games would work in WINE at all)