Gaming for truckers

Since there seems to be a lot of computer gurus on here. I have a couple old 16 bit games that don't fully work properly with 64 bit Windows 8.1. Is there any way to force compatibility so the older 16 bit/pre Direct X 7ish games render correctly?

 

Any specific one you're trying to do?

 

Well... you can attempt what is called a virtual machine from Microsoft, download to your machine and run it. It will replicate a environment your older games need. Unfortuantely... Im a touch fuzzy on VM's because the games load into ram during the VM session and stay there. Whatever happens does it save? I don't know.

What I do is this. I buy a beater 100 dollar laptop off the bay, I have a couple XP's and windows 98's and so forth. Toss it on there install the games and run on that. Maybe a cable to export your video to a larger screen which might have to be manually turned down to the lower resoulations like 800x600 to accept the signal from the beater laptop. Don't forget to slow the refresh down 30 or however low you can accept.

Ive said all I can say with that particular topic, anything else makes me unsure and I hate to proclaim my absolute stupidity to the world more than I already did. I build computers and #### good ones but software? ugh... someone else can deal with that.

 

The one in particular is called Hard Truck 2 (a Russian arcade style truck simulator). I've tried every possible compatibility option Windows provides. Best I can do is the menus work, backdrop renders ok in game but the actual game environment has major graphic corruption and it lags badly. I can't remember my laptop specs but I believe it has a 4gb Nvidea graphics card and 8gb system RAM.

 

Ok, what you are going to do is run it on a obselete machine. I do. I have games dating back to 97 or so and some of them are on the third or forth disk already. Older machines are valued by me for that purpose.

 

That's probably the best option.

 

If you run em like I do, the old beater laptops, get a block of metal, throw it into the freezer. Put a non sweating material between block under that laptop and enjoy a few hours gaming as the heat transfers from CPU pipe direct to the block. Make sure you tilt that laptop towards the exhaust vent of that cpu pipe or you will cook it in no time. Poof.

 

since Y'all are playing with primitive weapons, you might enjoy far cry primal