we're in such a weird place as far as PC "retrogaming" goes. anything made before 1998 or so can be pretty easily played, occasionally straight up but usually with a variety of emulation options, but from like 99 to 2007? a tremendous number of games just won't run right

unlike the older games, which won't run at all on modern windows, the middle-era games often run but have weird problems

the most irritating ones for me are scaling and display modes. neverwinter nights 2 will run on windows 10 just fine (the gog edition anyway) but it's so hard to play it the way I play modern games.

i don't want to run anything in exclusive fullscreen anymore. it never should have existed (I still don't understand what it is) but it's even more frustrating now because i have three monitors, and windows is too dumb to handle this right

in the cases where it doesn't fullscreen on the wrong monitor, it still jostles and fucks up all my windows on all displays even if the resolution *isn't changing.* fullscreening at the native res of my monitor *still* makes everything hiccup. fuck!

i can't alt-tab out because every single time i do it it jostles and fucks everything up, and i've even had system hangs before by switching display resolutions back and forth too quickly

i don't play games the way i did when i was 19. i don't open the game and just stay in it for six hours. i alt tab out constantly to do other things, so this behaviro isn't an option for me at all

a lot of stuff released in the early 2000s just freaks out at the display subsystem in windows 10, who knows why. complaining about bit depth issues that don't exist, running the intro movies but then the display just stops updating while the menu music plays

i have other computers, i could put windows 7 on something, but again - i do not want the game to be My Current And Only Task. i want it to be a program, running on my computer, like modern games are

stuff like dgvoodoo is a step in the right direction - what we essentially need for these games to remain playable is a high level emulation of windows XP. not *just* directx, something deeper and more thorough.

sign my change dot org petition for microsoft to release a new WIndows XP On Windows

I was drunk when I wrote this thread and forgot to finish talking about the technical issues so anyway