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Lantern1984
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Unable to game

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I built a Windows 98 guest machine on my Windows 10 laptop in order to play an old game I have called "Chaos: A Fantasy Adventure Game". It was working fine a week ago, then I didn't play for several days, and now I'm getting error messages both in the guest and host machines when I try and play. When I try to load the game, I get "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." in the guest machine, then that is followed by "The instruction at 0x0000* referenced memory at 0x0000*. The memory could not be written." in the host. Does anyone know how to fix either of these problems?
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Re: Unable to game

Post by scottgus1 »

Please right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show Log.

Search the far left tab's log for this text:

Attempting fall back to NEM

If you find it, Hyper-V is enabled and needs to be disabled. See HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active).

If you don't find that text, save the far left tab's log, zip the log file, and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.
Lantern1984
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Re: Unable to game

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Re: Unable to game

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Yes, that was perfect.
OK, you don't have Hyper-V problems, good.

See our tutorial on setting up Windows 98: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=9918

One thought, 3D acceleration will probably not work in the VM since Windows 98 has no Guest Additions to load drivers for 3D in the VM.
Lantern1984
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Re: Unable to game

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Now when I try to load the game, the screen goes blue and says "A fatal exception OD has occurred"
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Re: Unable to game

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If you have tried everything the tutorial has, it may be that this game is not compatible with Virtualbox's 'hardware' or the 3rd-party drivers. Virtualbox wasn't built for gaming.
Lantern1984
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Re: Unable to game

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What I don't get is why it suddenly stopped working after it was fine before.
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Re: Unable to game

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That's a good point, I forgot about that. If the VM did not change, then something on the host changed. Antivirus update, hoist video driver update, Virtualbox update, etc.?
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Re: Unable to game

Post by mpack »

The VM crashes because it enables 3D acceleration - which is utterly pointless in a Win98 VM. No doubt the actual crash is caused by a hardening issue, but the fact remains is that enabling 3D in a Win98 VM makes as much sense as installing turbo boost switch on a Mini car. The engine simply doesn't support that feature, but that won't stop VirtualBox attempting to set up a VM for it.
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