Does this mean DX1-10 are also supported? I've been struggling to play some DX3-7 games because of VirtualBox and VMware limitations and Win10+ backward compatibility gaps.
Article is quite long and technical, so it wasn't clear to me. That said, still great to hear Windows guests are getting some attention, especially from a long lived project that's proven it's not going anywhere.
Your options there are DOSBox-X, DOSBox Pure Unleashed, Winebox, WineD3D, DxWnd, DGVoodoo2 and my personal favourite, which is more in line with what you are talking about, SoftGPU.
SoftGPU is a DX capable driver for Win9x that runs on VMware and VirtualBox.
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Does this mean DX1-10 are also supported? I've been struggling to play some DX3-7 games because of VirtualBox and VMware limitations and Win10+ backward compatibility gaps.
Article is quite long and technical, so it wasn't clear to me. That said, still great to hear Windows guests are getting some attention, especially from a long lived project that's proven it's not going anywhere.
Your options there are DOSBox-X, DOSBox Pure Unleashed, Winebox, WineD3D, DxWnd, DGVoodoo2 and my personal favourite, which is more in line with what you are talking about, SoftGPU.
SoftGPU is a DX capable driver for Win9x that runs on VMware and VirtualBox.
You'll get best compatibility for 20+ year Windows gaming using either
A) qemu with a XP/Vista guest and a older dedicated nvidia gpu pass thru.
B) Fully software using 86box/pcem but performance will suffer.
If the system requirements for those games are low and your host machine fast, your best bet is probably something like 86Box.
DX3-7 is now well supported with D7VK (fork of DXVK).
Likely such games will work better under Wine rather than modern Windows.