I think the CPU for your new laptop will do fine for most PCem tasks. I am sure you will enjoy the Voodoo 3 3000, which runs very well on my laptop thanks to PCem. I don't know if having 6 cores is better than 4, but I do know that having an all core turbo speed of 4.2 Ghz and top turbo speed of 4.5...

The I5 10300h should be ok for Pentium MMX emulation. I am fond of the Pentium MMX emulation that comes with PCem, so I recommend it without question. You will still get good performance for the games you mentioned if you use the P166 MMX. You should get good performance for the older video cards th...

PCem was the first emulator to come with 3Dfx Voodoo 2, Voodoo 3 and Voodoo Banshee support. Also, Soundblaster AWE64 isn't exactly a "newer" card. It was released in mid-to-late 1996 and was based on an old ISA bus. Since several years ago PCem emulates Sound Blaster 128 which is a PCI b...

May I ask which screen resolution you are using in PCem? If you are using 1024x768 you might get better performance by reducing your win98 and PCem game resolution down to 640x480. This always works for me. Your game might work better with the Voodoo 3 instead of the Voodoo 2. leilei's advice here i...

PCem depends very heavily on the single-threaded performance of your CPU. The number of cores is not really all that useful for a program like PCem. The key would be to have a CPU that has an all-core turbo speed of at least 4 Ghz, and a strong single-thread turbo speed of at least 4.5 Ghz. That way...

I read your guide to Diablo II. I am glad to see people offering help to those trying to get their old games running on new PCs. PCem is the best way to run many of these games. Pentium 2 emulation is so good that I can run some games well past the Pentium MMX speeds. This is impressive given that m...

I have just tried Episode 1 Racer using the P2 333 in PCem on my i7 9750h. I admit that there were times when the emulation speed went below 100%, but not while I was playing the game. In-game performance was rock-solid at 100%. Performance only went below 100% when viewing in-game video cutscenes o...

The above configuration is good for Windows 2000. I even have a socket 7 P300 MMX configuration running Windows 2000 and I use it for Star Wars Rebellion. It beats any other alternative for that game. Star Wars Rebellion crashes too often on Win95/98 to be useable, but on Win 2000 it is stable and r...

PCem v17 is really good so if your game can run on a Pentium II I recommend it without hesitation. Pentium II emulation is top notch. I am not yet able to run all of my programs on the P2 450, but Jedi Knight and Episode 1 Racer run just fine in-game. Video cutscenes and in-game menus are a differen...

There has been some effort to get the TIE Fighter CD DOS version to work through DOS, and not Windows 95/98. While my efforts to get this game to work in DOS on a 486 PC were not successful, I did get this game to work using a socket 7 based Pentium 75 PC in PCem. This Pentium 75 was using DOS 6.22 ...

Welcome MichaelJManley! Thank you Sarah for making PCem one of the best programs out there. My productivity with computers has improved immensely as a result of using PCem, a valuable tool not only for playing win95/98 games but also for any program compatibility task that uses software from 20-30 y...

I agree with the comments made here. I will test out some of the suggestions for improving Pentium 2 performance in PCem. For me, the PII 233 is very fast and reliable. Pentium 2 emulation is very well implemented in v17, so it has become my de facto standard for most win98 tasks. The Voodoo3 is a h...

PCem is almost completely dependent on your CPU. I am sure having a decent video card helps, but the CPU is by far the most important factor in PCem performance. RAM is not so much an issue as long as you have enough for your PC tasks. May I ask what speed you typically get from your 9900k CPU, espe...

For anyone trying to format a blank floppy disk, or in my case, a virtual floppy disk, I can confirm that this works well with WinImage, but it also works in PCem if you do it from Win 3.1. Your Windows formatted disk should work fine in DOS. I would still have to test it with WordPerfect 5.1 to mak...

May I ask if you could get games like Jedi Outcast or Jedi Academy to work well with your emulated P2 400 and 450? The Ryzen is a big improvement in CPU performance if it can run those 2 games through PCem at 100% on those 2 emulated CPUs.

v17 offers so much for people using modern computers that it is as close to perfection as anyone could hope to see on a PC. I have recently begun a new round of PCem testing. I am very impressed with the program's ability to run not only games, but other programs like Visual Studio 6.0. System crash...

Check the number of rendering threads used in Voodoo 3 settings. If there are 4, set them to 2. This might help solve some of the performance issues you're having. Specifically, you need at least 5 cores to run the main CPU + Voodoo 3 with 4 rendering threads. Leaving aside the issue of not having ...

Based on my own PCem experience, a program I am hoping to use again soon, I did not encounter any security problems as a result of using the software.

I think it matters where you got your drivers and other software for PCem, but I have found my experience with PCem to be a very pleasant one.

That is a great screenshot. PCem v17 continues to impress me. The Voodoo 3 is a huge upgrade over the previous technologies. It was impressive back in the day too. The Pentium 2 was amazing back in the day, and today it is perfectly emulated in PCem. Game performance is really, really good. I have n...

This is an interesting project. It has great promise. I look forward to seeing the end result.

About 1-2 years ago, I tested PCem on an 8th generation Intel core i7 laptop. Performance was better than what many people reported with older PCs in spite of the fact that they were running 6th generation core i7 machines with decent 4-4.2 Ghz speeds. The 8th gen laptops I tested were not fancy ali...

I have not noticed any of these issues with the P2 233 or the Voodoo 3. Even the Voodoo 3 3000 runs really well on my PC. I have some occasional graphical problems with the Voodoo 3, but nothing like what I read in this topic. My early P2 450 tests with Jedi Knight last month revealed very promising...

I was highly surprised by this release too! Sarah should be awarded the Order of the British Empire :mrgreen: I agree. Version 17 of PCem is an amazing achievement. I am still testing the program but so far I am very impressed with how amazing PCem v17 really is. Sarah should indeed be awarded the ...

Thank you for clarifying this matter. I felt the idea was worth investigating, and I am glad both of you clarified this matter as I am sure others would have tried it, or simply asked about it here. PCem was always an exciting program, but v17 has made it much more appealing to Win98 users. Pentium ...

I am curious, is there a way to combine the Voodoo 3 (or the Banshee) with the Voodoo 2? This would mean two voodoo cards on the same machine with the goal of improving system performance when playing 3D-accelerated games. If so, is there a possibility of adding Voodoo 2 SLI? This would of course me...

So far v17 of PCem is a complete success. I have some more testing to do but so far performance of the Pentium 2 and the Voodoo 3 is very promising. For some reason the PII 350 reads as a PII 333 on the boot screen. I do not know if this is easy to fix. Performance of the Pentium 2 350 is pretty goo...

Thank you Sarah. I am amazed by v17 of PCem. Pentium 2 emulation is very fast, and the Voodoo 3 is impressive. I have been testing this version of PCem in an XP VM on VMware, so this is pretty good. I can confirm that results depend on which game is being run through PCem. I have quite a bit more te...

leilei, you found some graphical errors with NHL 99 and I am curious to know if these were related to the in-game text when playing a match, specifically the in-game menus and scoreboards. My NHL 2000 tests sadly report the same graphical issues with the Voodoo 3 as I saw with the Voodoo 2 and the V...

PCem is the best way to run most Win9x games and programs. The same goes for Win 3.1 and DOS. PCem will run almost any of the old programs for these old operating systems without the need for any compatibility fixes or patches. The Pentium, Pentium MMX, 386, 486, even K6-2 machines can be emulated i...

While i did mention that Jedi Academy works, It's a little different than Outcast as it lacks overbrights. However there's a very weird bug with the character creation screen that causes the inner 3d viewport to focus above the head when the head is selected, which has me thinking it's a CPU bug. D...