QEMU Beyond GOOD & EVIL (2003) (EAX) -- From Install to Play in 15 Mins

In conjunction with 20th Anniversary Edition of the Game, QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx proudly presents the 2003 PC Retail Originality of Beyond GOOD & EVIL in pristine condition, From Install to Play in 15 Mins on modern systems. The 2003 PC version was the BEST & HIGHEST quality version among the console releases (PS2, XBOX and GameCube), but was likely plagued by high system requirements and paled in comparison to console guaranteed playability. The PC version supported high-resolution rendering out-of-box into ANY resolution reported by Direct3D9 and EAX audio. Though the game was a commercial flop upon release, it still earned another HD Remaster in 2011 for the console versions which basically just updating the Game rendering at 720p for 2011 consoles.
QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx brings modern CPU virtualization coupled with TRUE 3D acceleration of modern GPU to relive the Game on modern Linux and Windows in the BEST & HIGHEST quality with EAX support from DSOAL/OpenAL-Soft. WineD3D delivers high performance rendering in Direct3D 9.0c Shader Model 2.0 through MESAGL-passthrough on any modern GPUs regardless of Linux or Windows. While QEMU USB Gamepad offers console-like gaming experience with any kinds of Game Controllers, wired or wireless, simple keyboard & mouse inputs are equally great with wheel support and absolutely lag-free.
For whatever "Trash"Boxes or "JUNK_PC"em, for such endless spewing of *\*Accuracy BS\***, they are decades behind, if not, in ETERNITY to bring advanced 3D rendering beyond their "freaking fast" 3Dfx Voodoos. The so-called **\*RETARDED and STUPID\** "accuracy"-trick by having device timings synchronized to CPU, they are inadvertently flawed in real-time experience that leads to crippling audio and inputs lag. Oh, the 20th Anniversary Edition has indeed been such a relief and grace saving for STUPID emulations, just play the game on any modern PCs and forget about any STUPID emulations that can't even manage 20-year old Good Old Games on 125W TDP Core i9-14900K. Oh, don't even need to mention any GPUs, they are just scrap metal for STUPID emulations that don't know how to exploit them.
Ubisoft Beyond GOOD & EVIL definitely delivered its charms throughout the years. The 2003 PC version also received GOG treatment to be able to play on modern systems and DRM-free. And in the game 20th anniversary, the Anniversary Edition was released on Steam with more refined geometry models and shaders at 4K in 60 FPS.
Beyond GOOD & EVIL (2003) at GOG
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20th Anniversary Edition on Steam
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A BIG shout-out THANK YOU for those generously supported the project and Games Preservation. While not every PC game could have the favors of Beyond GOOD & EVIL for a modern Anniversary Edition from sales flop 20 years ago, the publisher Ubisoft deserved the kudos for giving the Game IP a modernized second life.

[@sdkdb]

Hello KJ, It's me again. Your project simply blows my mind! Thank you very much for this awesome project. In my Windows XP installation, when I run it using Hyper-V, it's extremely and painfully slow. However, when I run it with TCG, it runs at acceptable speeds but is extremely buggy. This is the exact opposite of my experience on Windows 98, where Hyper-V is extremely fast, but TCG is slow and buggy. Is there anything I can do to make WHPX on XP faster? Did you install any modifications to the VM to improve speeds or anything else? Thank you, KJ! 😁

[@qemu-3dfx]

Check out the video at kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2a4da2dnJqWftk For Windows 10/11 WHPX, Windows XP VM requires "ACPI Standard PC" HAL option from "F5" key during installation. You can also run any existing Windows XP VM in TCG to switch the VM to the right HAL option for WHPX acceleration.

[@sdkdb]

​@@qemu-3dfx Whoops! I've overlooked that 😓. The VM now runs considerably faster. Thank you so much, KJ! I hope you are having an amazing day today. Thank you, mate! 😁

[@qemu-3dfx]

You're welcome. Hope you enjoy "The Way It's Meant to be Played" for Good Old Games on modern systems. Never ever to be FOOLED by the **\*RETARDED & STUPID \*** Accuracy **\*BS\*** in PC emulation that can't even manage 20-year old Good Old Games.🤣

[@Thomas.Falcone]

Can you passthrough a real pci sblive to the emulated system?

[@qemu-3dfx]

Never interested in doing so. It is a thin-and-light laptop by the way, for "Play Anywhere, Play Anytime".

[@nick9323]

Make a Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth run. It's buggy as hell, but atmospheric and I can't run it on win10/11

[@qemu-3dfx]

Check out Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of The Earth (2006) by Bethesda Softworks, the 2-CD retail 1.0 version. No patch, no mods, the game works out-of-box in pristine condition on WinXP VM as easy as from Install to Play. Played a bit and finished the prologue, no crash on save-points, stable and almost all-time 60 FPS locked gameplay.