Ordered old PC parts for a Windows XP build similar to the one LGR did a while ago...

Why not just run XP on a virtual machine?

This is a perfect example of some youtuber doing stupid shit and literal children (physically or otherwise) imitating them. This could have been solved with a virtual machine which would have cost $0 and delivered the same results. But baby tard needed to be just like his tube hero.
Take this thread as a warning, not a suggestion.

Is the sauce lewd

You unironically seem like a tool. Some people enjoy building PCs. Like, enjoying old hardware isn't a new concept to any industry.

I'm a composer. I write a lot of music using samples. I could very easily emulate the patches in a Roland Jupiter-8, but it's still something cool to potentially own and mess around with.

Project IGI
Codename: Outbreak
Midtown Madness
Dungeon Keeper
Myst
Unreal I & II (NOT tournament)
Monkey Island 2

and that one game where you wear that weird black stealth suit and and the first mission is you skydiving into some base while avoiding the spotlights n shit. I can't remember it though. These might be more ~Windows 98 suggestions though idk.

Also, you're a fag if you don't get an off color white/piss yellow tower with a stupid drive bay accessory like cupholder and cigarette lighter.

>and that one game where you wear that weird black stealth suit and and the first mission is you skydiving into some base while avoiding the spotlights n shit.
MDK.

>went through all the trouble to make a computer of obsolete parts
>no knowledge of what to do with it

Um.

This thinking is why we don’t have good batteries and other cool advancements

Why do emulation plebs always feel the need to remind hardware chads that it exists? I guarantee anybody interested in having the original hardware knows about emulation and chooses not to use it.

>MDK

Hell yeah, Yea Forums coming in clutch once again

Prey
Dark Messiah
UT2K4
Escape From Butcher Bay
Titan Quest
Half Life
COD

Fallout 1 and 2
BG 1 and 2
Command and Conquer series
THE NEVERHOOD

I know exactly what I'm gonna use it for and am just asking for recommendations because like half of my old games are who the fuck knows where so I'm probably just gonna pirate most shit anyways, might as well get a few more added to the list.

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Patrician taste!

How old is "old"? If by "old" you mean hardware from the "XP era", like 2001-2006 or so, well there's absolutely no need to use hardware that old. You do realize you can run XP on fairly a modern computer right? Chances are the computer you are using now can run it (so you may have been able to simply install XP on a separate drive).

With XP you can have up to 128GBs of RAM and any number of CPU cores you want, and you can use harddrives of any size (GPT) as data drives and any SSD as OS drive (there are defrag programs for XP which handle TRIM, but that isn't really necessary with modern SSDs). The latest GPU you can (officially) use with XP is the GTX 960.

I used to work on old hardware, and it can stay where I left it.

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>well there's absolutely no need to
You've already totally missed the point of an enthusiast build.

well all your old ass games you can get from archive.org most likely
if youre looking for recommendations it might be better to scoot on over to /vr/ or d/l old pc gaming mags from that era from the aforementioned website (archive.org)

And you know that was OP's intention, how?

Rollercoaster Tycoon
Oddworld
Half-Life + expansions
Deus Ex
System Shock 2
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Unreal Tourney
Starcraft
Quake 1
Jedi Knight + Mysteries of the Sith

I hope you're fucking with me.

Why no, I wouldn't want to have sex with you.

LGR is a retro enthusiast channel, user.

This entire thread is why aliens will never bother communicating with our retarded species

this is the gayest shit since retro console collecting blew up a few years ago
I hope you retards remember the people who laughed at you in 5 years when you're sitting around in your place filled with dusty junk

>buying """retro""" hardware when wine on linux will run xp era games better than windows ever could

>this thread

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Imagine being angry that people buy cheap, old computer parts and making a computer that can already run the best games on the platform.

>emulation
Pleb shit.

>Unreal I & II (NOT tournament)
Why not Tournament? Tourney 1 is great.

nope not what I implied at all
if you want to play retro pc games, your modern pc already has those capabilities with virtual machines
what this thread and that channel champions is fetishizing outdated shit that belongs in a dumpster
you don't care about games at that point
you're finding another excuse not to play them

No appreciation for history or hobby. Disgusting.

For the record, LGR updates certain aspects where it suits the project, like using flash drives instead of old HD's.

>fetishizing outdated shit that belongs in a dumpster
Why? Because you personally don't think its worth anything? You know one man's trash is another man's treasure.

>emulation
Wine Is Not an Emulator.

Yeah well it's also not the way the games were meant to be played.

I was hyped as fuck to get a computer with a Pentium III to play games with in the early 2000s
if someone offered me one today, I'd decline
I have tons of software digitally archived since that's what actually matters
the hobby is video games and hardware has only ever been the vehicle
you are missing the point of just playing old games
if you think I'm the one missing the point, then this thread belongs on /g/

/g/ is autistic as fuck but even they'd have an appreciation for the sense of authenticity

A VM just doesn't work 100% of the time. I tried playing Grand Prix World in VirtualBox but it ran way too fast, it constantly held the mouse buttons even if I just clicked very briefly.

Grand Prix Word
Jagged Alliance 2
Original Fallout games
Patrician 3

>You're missing the point because I say so!
People can have many points for doing what they do. Just because you're closed minded about enthusiast hobbies doesn't make you right. Just incredibly vanilla and boring.

>you are missing the point of just playing old games
There is no point, some people just like to play them as close to the developers original intent as possible. It's called having a hobby.

doubtful
it's probably some scheme for no-name retailers to sell the vast quantities of derelict and obsolete hardware to retarded "le enthusiasts"
old hardware is garbage for good reason unless it's being used for a seed box or temperature regulator for a marijuana plant or something

Gothic 1+2
motorcross madness
Desperados
duke 3d
theme hospital
Kingpin life of crime
Caesar 3

then just be honest about what your hobby is
it isn't playing video games
it's trying to pin down a sliver of time

>tfw apparently not allowed to do something I enjoy so I can play games I enjoy on a computer like I had as a kid because "lol u can just emulate it retard"

Yeah, I could. I'm not going to though, because I fucking can. What the fuck is wrong with that and why do you care.

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Playing video games is my hobby though. Just because I care more about authenticity than you doesn't mean I enjoy them less, if anything it implies the opposite.

do you really think the devs didn't wish for infinitely more powerful hardware to run their games on?
the authenticity you're talking about is just an indiscriminate point on a timeline of forward progress
Unreal Tournament runs just the same on my modern pc as it did on my pc from 20 years ago, maybe better
you're chasing smoke and it's disturbing to see because you're obviously smart enough to not do it if you're researching and recreating builds considered trash by modern standards

>NEW GOOD
>OLD BAD

I don't build retro PCs from scratch. I find em thrown away and create working computers from the scraps. Then I play games on them. I think the most I spent on them was 40 bucks for a graphics card for my Windows 98 machine.

all windows xp games will work on steam under windows 10 by using fixes and guides you idiots
ALL of them
easier to fix a game you will place once a year than wasting time buying all the crap for an old pc

What a fucking waste. For 90s games, some of the late 90s ones might run wierd on newer processors and the dos compatibility makes sense for a time specific computer but building one for mid 2000s pc games when those pretty much run and play better on modern hardware is just wasting money, especially if you still use a new monitor.

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>ITT: Zoomers who can't comprehend having comfy old PC setups and people enjoying and making use out of old tech

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And what do you do if the game isn't on Steam you absolute lobotomy enthusiast?

>"lmao just play it in a virtual machine"
>youtube.com/watch?v=q8GZChLEMGg

This. You don't need a fucking "retro" rig, especially not a fucking XP one. Maybe you could justify a 386 or something if you want to go back to the days of clunky bullshit while you max out the throughput of old standards with virtual floppies on USB and TF cards simulating HDDs, but who the fuck wants to go to all that hassle for the sake of maybe 2 games you can't run?

The funniest part of this whole zoomie setup is how he's connecting it all to a fucking LCD. Imagine going to all the effort of buying parts for an XP rig instead of just pulling your old shit out of storage, and then playing them on a display that eliminates half the advantages of old hardware.

The fact you can't even work out how to stifle your CPU to play old games is fucking embarrassing, dude.

Rollercoaster tycoon 2

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>ITT: Boomers who can't comprehend having comfy new PC setups and people enjoying and making use out of new tech

New computers are soulless as shit. Fuck RGB color shit and transparent cases, so gaudy and gay looking.

>I'm a composer.
You're a tool. The music industry is absolutely FILLED with morons like yourself, people who spend thousands of dollars on a guitar that's literally just wood and some pickups. No wonder you think that "vintage" equipment is a good idea.

There are absolutely aspects of old hardware that can't be emulated right now. You won't find any of them with an XP rig, though. I imagine you're the kind of guy who owns half a dozen tube amps, because you think audio emulation is somehow "soulless". How many records do you own?

Old computers are soulless as shit. Fuck white color shit and opaque cases, so plain and gay looking.

>plain, tasteful business look
>gay looking
Wrong.

Oh user, next you're going to tell me you DON'T use red LEDs for extra speed.

>play old PC game on old PC
>game works

>play old PC game on new PC
>have to google fixes, install patches, fan mods, try different compatibility modes, use cracked .exes, install a bunch of other shit and MAYBE it might at least boot.

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The only people who buy that shit are zoomers, though. My rig has 2 LEDs, one for disk access, and one for power.

Black is classic and understated, I prefer it over the beige we used to have, especially because it all turned to piss eventually.

nowadays playing old windows games on linux is less hassle and has better performance

>play old game on new PC
>check compatibility post with 2 seconds on Google
>boot in VM/DOSbox if there are any unresolved issues

>play old game on old PC
>have to transfer the files over a network, or put them on a USB drive
>have to set my internal dip switches to match the processor speed required
>have to navigate my way around a slow, cumbersome, keyboard only interface

The only advantage of old computers is CRTs, and happily, active VGA adaptors still exist for pretty much all known videoports.

>keyboard only interface
Just use Windows 98 if you hate command prompt.

I still don't see why you retards are against someone wanting to use old hardware to play old games. Who the fuck cares.

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>This could have been solved with a virtual machine which would have cost $0 and delivered the same results.
Do most Windows XP era games even require a VM? Don't they all have compatibility patches/settings by now? Not a single game LGR played in that video was one that has trouble running on W10, as far as I'm aware.
It was an interesting idea, build a PC with the best parts available in 2004, but there just doesn't seem to be much utility for it. It's not like building a machine for DOS games or something.

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Gunman Chronicles
Die By the Sword
Prisoner of War
Stupid Invaders

80-90% of games from the Era still work on modern systems. Hard to know which ones are worth playing on an actually old machine.

>Counter Blow
Pretty sure I watched a porno with that name

Can VMs into 3d acceleration and prehistoric DirectX and DirectDraw versions that aren't supported by the host system?

It's not the early days of W10 anymore. There aren't many mainstream games from the 2000s that didn't get patched to work on modern operating systems. Building as a hobby is one thing, but a system like LGR made in that video was done purely for vanity - there is no reason you couldn't play any of those games with no/minimal issues on the system you already have. You don't need a VM to play fucking Oblivion.

But hey if you wanna blow a few hundred bucks and build a PC whose sole purpose is to prevent you from googling "old game w10" and spending five minutes getting it to work be my guest.

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>Do most Windows XP era games even require a VM?
Plenty do, but most of them are Japanese. If I remember, most of the Sakura Wars games boot on later versions of Windows, but they all have some crippling issue like not being able to export your saves, and because the Japs are incompetent and scared of PC development, nobody has made any fan patches to get them working.

Pretty much anything released in English will have some fan patch, though.

Fair point. It's useful to have some crappy old Thinkpad laying around if you want to play a VN or something that you'd have to fuck about in Japanese locale and do ridiculous amounts of work around to get working in Win10. I was actually thinking about buying one specifically for that purpose.
Still, like that other user said, you'd probably be better off just dualbooting to Linux.

I would never, ever run old games on Linux. Sure, they might work better. They might also have completely undocumented issues you only find out 20 hours in, because nobody else has ever bothered playing the game on a dead OS.

VMs work fine.

what? why would you do that, unless you have mountains of money available it's seriously pointless since 99% of games run just fun on modern pcs, heck even 90s games do due to dosbox. i would buy every single console released since the nes before i would buy an old parts pc, if there's one thing microsoft knows how to do is how to not break compatibility with previous windows versions

OP just asked for game recommendations and you retards turn it into some shitfest about what he chooses to do with his money. Literally who fucking cares.

also get Quake III and RCT2, that was my shit

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im gonna need a sauce on this yukarie

>ordered parts to play old games
>but I don't know any games
maybe you don't want to play any old games because apparently you don't have any interest in those.

how do you activate xp sp3? Not even registry hacks work.

What a dumb thread. Literal snowflakes ITT. Playing with garbage doesn't make you interesting.

One of my favorites from early 2000 that I never hear anyone talk about is Star Trek: Elite Force.
Raven software, Quake 3 engine, early 2000 FPS charm. Don't even need to care about Star Trek to enjoy.

>not just using a vm
retard

There's cynicism and there's utter fucking retardation. No retail chain has the market cornered on old parts you fucking retard. Unless you think Goodwill is pulling the wool over your eyes.

>implying people making these builds don't already have one computer
This isn't people dumpster diving to have one working PC. This is people assembling secondary machines built to simulate a bygone era because they can.

HEDZ
Rise of Nations
AoE2
Company of Heroes
FEAR
NOX
Max Payne 1&2
Star Wars Battlefront
Republic Commando
Jedi Knight games
DOOM
Quake
Serious Sam
GTA Vice City

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>thread ruined by one spamming vm nigger

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