[asark]

Some even earlier directx games are damn near unplayable anywhere but real hardware, last time I checked. Heavily tied to a handful of video cards from a span of just a few years. Looking at you, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. I don't think VirtualBox even works in those cases.

[Shorel]

They don't even work well in Windows 7 or 10.

That's why I still have an XP partition