| 31-01-2011 09:31 AM | ||
| GTX2GvO |
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 My advise on a Win98SE VPC is: HDD: 16 GB MAX (8~10GB recommended) RAM: between 128 MB (MIN) and 384MB (MAX) |
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| 30-01-2011 11:20 AM | ||
| Japo | You don't need any drivers, you're covered by Win98SE. VPC emulates very basic hardware, and during the machine creation wizard it asks you what OS you plan to install, surely to make sure the hardware environment is supported. About the graphic card, as Russ said your real one is invisible inside the virtual machine, you only have a shitty 16 MB or so one, emulated with your real CPU. | |
| 30-01-2011 10:55 AM | ||
| The Fifth Horseman | You'll proably need drivers for whatever hardware VPC is emulating, unless Win98 has that hardware covered by its' bundled driver package. | |
| 30-01-2011 10:51 AM | ||
| Scatty |
Don't know how VPC handles the natively installed graphics card, but it might not hurt to try to find Win98 drivers for it. If you're gonna use games with 3D acceleration there you might need them. For soundcard it's not that necessary, default Windows drivers should do the job unless they can't recognize the card, if it's a recent brand. |
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| 30-01-2011 09:17 AM | ||
| Kugerfang | I've set up Win98SE and it's working great. Do I need to install any special drivers or is it gonna work just fine without them? Should I dig out my old AOL discs and get free internet while you suckers pay for yours? | |
| 29-01-2011 12:08 PM | ||
| dosraider |
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...arf, that's more then one word, but who cares. |
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| 29-01-2011 11:30 AM | ||
| Japo | Well the RAM can be changed at any time the virtual machine is off--unless the maximum disk size which is trickier--so you don't have to settle with a value from the beginning. 64 MB will cause more or less severe trashing of the HD pagefile depending on what you're running. Anyway 256 MB never caused any problems with the Win3.1 games I have, of course it could happen with DOS real mode games, but those are for DOSBox. Again you can change the amount of RAM at any time (just like in a real machine, except that you only have to access a menu instead of opening the case). | |
| 29-01-2011 09:11 AM | ||
| Scatty |
10 GB should be pretty much enough for a number of games, the biggest space a game of Win98 era could take is 1 GB, 600 MB more probable. 8 GB hard drive was all I ever used on my old Win98 machine, which was sufficient for everything. Also some older Win 3.1 / Win95 games might have troubles with 256 MB RAM, 64 might be safer option in Win98 for backwards compatibility. |
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| 29-01-2011 01:32 AM | ||
| Japo |
Well it depends on what you plan to install in it and run in it, does it? Regarding RAM, I have set 256 MB, which is overkill to make Windows 98 run smooth hardly ever touching the pagefile, and leaves an ample surplus for the old programs I have in there. And at the same time 256 MB is a small part of the RAM I have, an Internet browser can take that much, so I can give VPC that much too. And when you're running a virtual machine you're not supposed (?) to be running other resource intensive programs at the same time, so I can give VPC that much. Even more so HD space depends on what you plan to install in it. Windows 98 SE takes less than 300 MB itself, the rest is what you'll need for your programs and stuff. Note that you can choose to set up a fixed or a dynamic virtual disk, and the default option is the second one. It means that the virtual disk file will take in your real disk only as much space as it's actually occupied by files inside the virtual disk; the rest of free space reported inside the virtual machine will not be allocated in your real disk before it's going to be actually occupied. So I recommend leaving this default dynamic option, and being generous with the maximum size. But don't go crazy, you won't probably want heavy files like pictures, audio or video in your virtual machine, if they can be in your real host instead. And the games you'll install in the virtual machine will be old and will take little space by today's standards, and many games for Windows 9x work on newer versions and you don't need VPC for them. Depending on the number of game and programs that you're going to install, I don't think you need to think about more than 10 - 100 GB. But anyway since I think there's no downside to allocating too high a maximum size, because the file will actually take only as much space as it needs, you may want to make the maximum size higher for good measure. (Dynamic virtual disk files do not shrink in size when you free space by deleting files inside the virtual machine; this is perhaps to prevent fragmentation from going wild. Actually if you want good performance I recommend you defragment the virtual disk file after its size has increased--after you have installed new stuff in the virtual machine.) |
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| 28-01-2011 11:26 PM | ||
| DarthHelmet86 |
All of them!!11 Really I can't tell you. |
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