QEMU Let "TRUTH" be Prevailed -- The "BEST" Windows 98 Emulation

~~"The whole "super accurate LLE", "cycle-accurate" etc. in PCem/86Box for playing Windows games seems to be some fanatic artifacts out of lacking the know-how to "virtualize" and embrace GPU acceleration. It is stupid and need to die.
I have no idea who came up with the *Accuracy \*BS\** garbage for playing Windows game. It is completely nonsense and nonexistent. Please do NOT introduce that mind-fart into PC emulation for playing Windows games."~~
The "forbidden" benchmarks that the gang of whatever "Trash"Boxes OR "JUNK_PC"em would hide from everyone in the *Veil of Deceits* while touting the "BEST" Windows 98 emulation. One just gonna wait for mankind to achieve Quantum Supercomputing. Well, for how long?!!🤣 The A.I. GOD Father in recent CES shows just told the audience that it would still be 20 years aways, causing an instant crash in quantum computing stocks. So much for the *STUDPID & RETARDED* PC emulation in FULL of *Accuracy \*BS\** with the fantastic Voodoos emulation "all-done-in-software".
The benchmarks told it all and let "TRUTH" be prevailed. An upcoming preview version of 64-bit 86Box to showcase the "TRUTH". The benchmarks were pre-run for 86Box to avoid the impact of OBS real-time recording. QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx simply endured the brunt of OBS real-time recording while also rendered in higher resolution with 32-bit colors and textures. An almost 10X lead in 3DMarks in any circumstances. It was never an exaggeration but LAUGHS🤣 in the JOKES of such promises in NO CPU Virtualization and NO GPU acceleration in the name of **Accuracy \*BS\***. QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx on 8W TDP Intel N100 with Intel UHD Graphics would crush whatever "Trash"Boxes OR "JUNK_PC"em on $599 140W TDP Ryzen 9 9950X for Good Old Games such as GLQuake, Quake2/3 or Unreal/UT99 showdown. When ones enjoy Good Old Games on QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx, the savings in electricity bills pay for itself in contrast to FOOLS who overclocked the hell out of it to emulate Pentium II 400MHz on Core i9-14900KF or Ryzen 9 9950X.
For those who claimed "It's GOOD enough", well, that was quite valid as over 2000+ in 3DMark99 MAX wasn't a bad score. Have FUNs and enjoy the Good OLD Games. The real embarrassment begins at 3DMark 2000 and beyond...😁

[@ahmedkj9923]

holy shit the performance looks so good, i didn't know qemu can do gpu virtualization on windows. is there any tutorials i can follow to do this? is this limited to windows 98 or i can do it on modern operating systems?.

[@qemu-3dfx]

Interesting, so how did you stumble upon this KZbin channel? It's been deemed "Forbidden" knowledge akin to DARK magic cults from 15th Century of the Middle-Earth. An insidious Sith LORD expelled and purged into extinction in preserving Very OLD Games on New Systems on the verge of Windows 11. Your LAST HOPE is seeking out Google as your BEST friend. May the FORCE be with you.

[@aris5921]

In the video you have a pci qemu driver in the win98 system then when you open the test it shows a 6800 and a gtx 470 can you post the links on how you emulate these gpu in win98 ?

[@qemu-3dfx]

You just have to stop yourself from feeding too much on the *Accuracy \*BS\** from PCem/86Box *STUPID & RETARDED* mindsets in PC emulation. There isn't a need to even emulate these GPUs when "virtualizing" Direct3D with WineD3D.

[@aris5921]

@@qemu-3dfx found something on mac WineD3D for use with QEMU MESA passthrough, any link for windows qemu ? can you explain the process ?

[@qemu-3dfx]

A small donation to support the project & Game Preservation will have the QEMU prebuilt binaries delivered for you for your platform of choice. See details at github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx#donation.

[@Leonardo5681]

86Box and QEMU are not comparable, because 86Box is more about emulating the past, emulating a Pentium II for example. With QEMU you use your hardware and obviously there is no comparison.But still a great project for those PCs that can't handle 86Box like mine

[@qemu-3dfx]

The keyword is **Accuracy \*BS\*** and it's ALL about the games😁. How would anyone not wish to use their hardware to the MAX? The CPU hardware acceleration for x86 virtualization is in-place since year 2000 and everyone paid good $$$ for GPUs nowadays. The whole thing can be repeated in QEMU TCG system emulation and yet GPU acceleration alone still shine in contrast to Voodoos emulation "all-done-in-software". Almost everyone who emulate Pentium II in mind was about playing games and nothing else.

[@mrpepka6082]

@@qemu-3dfx When I see how hard you defend your program I want to cry, but with laughter. Dude, you charge $89.99 for some implementation of WineD3D for Windows 9x, how is your program supposed to be revolutionary in retrogaming when I can just as well install all these retro games on Windows 11 and use dgvoodoo2 and possibly a no-cd crack and I will have the same awesome experience going back to retro classics. Even if I really wanted to get a VM for Win98, I would rather do it on VMWare with the SoftGPU driver because at least it has patches for Windows 9x so that those on VMs would start on newer CPUs (like Ryzens, for example) and it's free, or even I would use the 86box because for you it may be super slow, but for me it at least provides a real gaming experience on older Windows because in the past when people played on Windows 9x they didn't have super powerful computers and practically no one achieved 120 FPS in games or 2587 points on 3DMark. Besides, why should I be thrilled that some old game achieves 120 FPS in QEMU (as opposed to 30 FPS on 86box) when many games have bugs at too high FPS numbers? If you really want to be better than 86box, then virtualize early 3D cards like Voodoo, S3 virge, Matrox Millenium and Mystique etc. and add a 3D graphics card compatible with NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon drivers (and possibly Intel integrated cards), then these experiences will be more authentic considering that in the past, people who wanted to play anything had to fiddle with drivers because it practically never happened that a game would work out of the box. Oh, and 86box itself also uses GPU acceleration to emulate Voodoo graphics cards, but it's not worth mentioning

[@qemu-3dfx]

@mrpepka6082 Your comment was blocked by KZbin A.I. I wished it could have showed up. You're FREE to do whatever your wish to your games and how you wanted to play them. And, STOP THE LIES, 86Box has absolutely ZERO GPU acceleration in Voodoos emulation. I wished I could have been wrong, none of PCem forks ever evolved out of such **\*BS\*** in fooling the WORLD about such useless Voodoos emulation "all-done-in-software".