it makes you able to assignate your devices to a VM

VT-d is intel proprietary, AMD has its counterpart called I/O Virtualisation Technology

I have a bunch of games that only run on Windows XP, I tried running them on MS's official XP VM and they didn't work. Do you think you would know why? would I need any of these technologies?

probably yes

your VM support only software acceleration, so shitty 3D at 3FPS at most

it's not that they didn't run fast enough, they didn't even boot up

I just got error messages

yup, no directx, opengl, etc

oh, that makes sense

since it's just a software "graphic card"

what did you use ? Virtualbox or something like that ?

like I said, ms's offical VM

I don't know if they still have it up, it was quite hard to find on their website

yeah, on which software tho ? VMware, Virtualbox, Parallels, Virtual PC, etc ?

oh, it was something made by microsoft directly ?

yes

not just a virtual disc with windows on it

okay okay

They made it available during the vista/7 period

well, you should be able to play them on linux with WINE though

not from a VM, but if you dualboot

yeah, I understand

I had ubuntu on an old computer

older*

can you give me an example of game just to tell you if it's officially supported by WINE ?

Ohh

so it isn't all games?

or you can check it out there : https://appdb.winehq.org/

not recent games, old games will probably works, some requires patches

more likely than not it isn't supported then, it's an obscure point & click called "neighbours from hell"

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6441

platinum support

lmao

it should works without any patch and everything should works out of the box

the other game I tried, besides the neighbours from hell sequel, was one called "my petz racers" or something like that

despite the name and it being a corn flake pack-in it was actually good

didn't find it on the DB, it might still works though

this is just an user database to show which game works and which don't, require patch, some functionality is broken, etc

aha

maybe I'll get gentoo running sometime then

or ubuntu again.