

While GTA: Vice City had been running on Windows 10, it fails to do anything on XP. One thing is that some games fail entirely on XP. I figured if I was going to use something like this, that I’d want some crazy pirated/hacked up to date version of XP to compliment the whole hacked up experience, so I went with the seemingly reputable “ Windows XP SP3 Integral Edition “.Īdding the audio drivers took a few attempts at installing stuff, rebooting, trying the windows auto-detect, rebooting, re-running snappy driver, and a few more reboots, and I got the NVIDIA audio and the built in audio working. Further searches said don’t use Rufus, instead use “ WinSetupFromUSB-1-10“. It appears after some searching it’s seeing the CD-ROM and trying to load the rest of the installer from there. I got this strange error from the USB stick. I tried to use rufus but… Setup cannot find the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA). As a matter of fact, not much works on the retail CD-ROM. Since all the disks are SATA, the default install CD won’t work. I’m pretty sure when XP was new I was still using a PII 233Mhz with 256Mb of RAM. Rounding out the absurdity is a Nvidia Quadro 4000 with 2GB of VRAM. With 12GB of RAM, a Nehalem 3Ghz Xeon W3550 2x 120GB SSD drives, and a functional optical disk, this makes for a great system.


When it comes to Windows XP, the S20 is no slouch.

I would need a physical machine, and that is where this hunk of junk the S20 fell into place. I had been slowly amassing a collection of bargain bin, garbage tier games ‘from back in the day’ and while I had been running a few on VMware on Windows 10, with that sub £5 copy of Windows XP home, it sadly didn’t help with so many games being copy protected. Normally I wouldn’t care but with pc titles going from £0.50 to £3 it seemed like some fun 1990’s computing value right there! Over in the UK, there is this fantastical store, CeX that sells all kinds of retro crap, often for cheap. This was a silly side project that got out of hand, building an XP physical machine to run some old software.
