just thought I would report type in need for speed modern patch and then you can download the patch and windows 10 now runs need for speed 3 yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not entirely sure what patch your referring to, however ive been running nfs 2 under xp mode for windows 7 straight from disc image for years

I believe he's referring to this, which is indeed a godsend for this game.

A similar patch is available for NFS2 here.

So its something like the escape from monkey island installer. Wouldnt a 32 bit virtual machine e.g. Xp mode be better? You dont need special installers and your able to play a whole host of oldies

I've never had much luck with VMs myself. I find the 3D performance dreadful and the whole thing comes unstuck as soon as you try to play something with a resolution that isn't your PC's native resolution. Getting gamepads to work is a nightmare and disc copy protection is usually a no-go too.

Besides, if a game designed for Win95/98 runs on WinXP, that drastically improves the chances of it running on Win10 (unless it's hobbled by SafeDisc or StarForce copy protection, in which case a VM won't help you anyway). Almost all of the games that I have that wouldn't run on Win10 wouldn't run on WinXP either.

Best thing in that case is a fully emulated PC, not just virtualisation, so I'm still waiting for DOSBox to catch up or Bochs to be usable in that regard. I'm hoping that someone will fork DOSBox to create a dedicated Win95/98 solution that includes peripheral and native CD/DVD support.

In the meantime, the 32-bit InstallShield replacements, dgVoodoo, DXWND, DOSBox, nGlide, ScummVM are your friends. dgVoodoo's recent updates have proven especially valuable. The Windows Compatibility Wizard is usually about as useful as a chocolate saucepan, except when a game artificially locks out other OS versions.

Exactly my experiences as well. Most of the time (especially 3D accelerated) games had serious problems, either performance problems or serious glitches, and generally it was much more hassle than what it was worth. It is definitely not as useful as e.g. DOSBox for MS-DOS games.

Like you said, copy protection seemed an issue for them. I tried to run my retail Wheel of Time game, and the Windows XP running in the VM would install the game fine from the CD, but when it came time to play, it would complain there was no (original) CD in the drive. I am sure it was the CD copy protection causing that.

The only way I could get past that was to install a noCD crack for the game, but even then it would work erratically: slow performance, there was something odd about the graphics even though it was supposed to be 3D accelerated (e.g. the trees were pixellated, as if they were not 3D accelerated, while rest of the game was), and the mouse controls wouldn't work right, if I touched the mouse the view would instantly go pointing to skies or some such shit.

The only partial success story I remember was Gorky 17 (GOG version). As it is widely known, the game has serious issues especially with its 3D accelerated graphics on various PC configurations, and/or scratchy audio and stability problems. I have especially bad problems on NVidia Geforce PCs; on an Intel HD 4000 laptop it works great though.

However, on that Geforce PC, the game would work better in a Windows XP VM session, so that's a start.

First of all, we need Need for Speed here on GOG. ;)

Great game, great soundtrack.