Soon, Linux will have better compatibility with older windows programs than Windows itself.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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Already does.
Soon? Let's talk DOSBox
For early Windows DirectX 1 - 6 there's 86Box.
dgVoodoo2 has worked fine for me for years for DX7 and earlier on wine. lutris already supports it natively.
Or if a VM is needed, qemu+softgpu has been much faster for me than pcem/86box.
Bookmarking softgpu that's a great link, thanks.
It's D7VK
What can I use to play kingdom under fire a war of heroes I think it was on windows xp
Looks like it's supported on proton, silver
https://www.protondb.com/app/1315200
So install it through steam and it should be playable
Yeah but the steam one seems kind of sketch reading the reviews
You don't need to buy it on Steam to launch it through Steam
OK I didnt know you could run older games from windows xp through steam I'll try to figure it out, I was watching a video last night about using lutris and how to mount the iso from archive.org
Ah then what you want is probably umu launcher
Then you can run whatever you want under proton, though this isnt "officially" supported so you might have an odd glitch or 2. But if it runs on steam proton fine enough, it shouldn't be much different