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Will there be support for Windows 2000/XP?

Open Burinis opened this issue 2 years ago • 8 comments

I just can’t find a video driver for Windows XP, so I hope for your help and, possibly, development. I'm just planning to upgrade to the latest version of VirtualBox (currently 6.0.24 r139119, this is the latest version with 3D acceleration for XP). For some reason, they stupidly write everywhere that games developed for Windows XP run great on Windows 10/11, but I don’t quite believe all this. Although Sims 2 runs fine on a real computer with Windows 10.

Burinis avatar Nov 20 '23 15:11 Burinis

See #12 Which games require XP and don't work on Vista+: https://github.com/exoscoriae/eXoWin3x/issues/680

Torinde avatar Nov 30 '23 13:11 Torinde

For some reason, they stupidly write everywhere that games developed for Windows XP run great on Windows 10/11, but I don’t quite believe all this.

Because Microsoft has been committed to backwards compatibility so much that most programs and games will work on Windows 10,so if it worked in 7,then it will work on 10. If the program in question doesn't work correctly on newer windows,you can use compatibility tester for that,which allows you to set compatibility settings to older windows,to work correctly.

LeoKids avatar Oct 19 '24 22:10 LeoKids