Quake II On SoftGPU (Win98+VBox+SoftGPU)
Here is Quake II running under SoftGPU. Quake II runs very good under SoftGPU. Not a surprise as for a 1997 game designed for Pentium II's in mind, the fact that it's running very well virtualized on a Ryzen 5 5500 host should explain the performance.
The original VM that I had the game installed came from Archive.org, special thanks to Joel Lagace for the work that he invested into building this VM. However, I had horrible audio stuttering issues with the SB16. However, I changed the device to an AC'97, installed the Win98 drivers, and after a restart, all the audio issues went away, and Half-Life never ran better! This VM is still highly recommended though. Here is the download link for those interested:
https://archive.org/details/windows-9...
VirtualBox 7.0 is virtualizing a multimedia gaming configuration with a single CPU core allocated to it (host is an AMD Ryzen 5 5500 6-Core Processor Running at 4.2HGHz), 512MB's of RAM, a VESA 1.2 Compatible Display Adapter with 3D Acceleration enabled via Passthrough with SoftGPU. An AC'97 Intel 82801AA Audio Device is installed with the appropriate drivers. Also installed is an AMD PCnet NIC. Windows 98SE is installed in the VM.
Songs Used:
Mubert-Generated
Metal/Rock Song
Software Used:
Recorded With OBS Studio
Composed In Kdenlive
Hardware Used:
PC equipped with a
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU
6 Cores Running At 4.2GHz
AMD Radeon RX570 GPU
Windows 11