As interesting as this review is, it shows that the time for Windows 95 & Co. irrevocably expired as the main operating system. On new, high-performance systems, the weaknesses of these operating systems are very clear, especially since the security aspect categorically excludes the use of older operating systems, which are no longer supported by the manufacturer, on a production system.
However, if you have enough older hard drives, experimenting with these systems can be a worthwhile time investment, as many older games are only supported by newer systems by detours or no longer at all. This test is intended to encourage people not to capitulate to the hurdles of an installation. As long as virtual machines in the home sector do not provide native graphics card support, these solutions will not be a serious alternative.
We do not want to conceal our "defeats" in this summary. For example, Aquamark 2003 on Windows 9x is not easy to run. Frame rates completely collapsed during the test and the benchmark could not be completed.
In summary, the performance of XP, Vista, and Windows 7 is almost identical except for small variations in all tasks. Windows 2000 drops slightly despite Service Pack 4, but is still stable and fast enough today. Here we suspect the difference to XP in the available drivers. The few advantages of Windows 95 and Windows 98 are clearly in the direct support of the old DirectX versions. Anything that runs later on Wrapper is noticeably slower.
We would like to see all this as a suggestion for interested collectors, because there are still enough old "treasures" on the shelves that would be a real pity in the future. So this migration between times is our contribution to ensuring that these things are not simply forgotten. In many cases, it would be a real pity.
- 1 - Evolution in kleinen Dosen – von Windows 95 bis Windows 7
- 2 - Schneller Fensterputzer – der Retro-Windows-PC entsteht
- 3 - Zahltag mit SuperPi
- 4 - Schweißtreibende Synthetik – MetaBench
- 5 - DirectX 5 – Der THG Do-It-Yourself Benchmark
- 6 - DirectX 6 – Asphalt-Pixel mit Need for Speed High Stakes
- 7 - DirectX 7 – James Bond für Feministinnen - No One Lives Forever
- 8 - DirectX 8 – Mafia, der Klassiker für die ganze Famile
- 9 - DirectX 9 – Die Sims 2 und die Generationenfrage
- 10 - Gegentest – Zwei alte CPUs gegen einen aktuellen Dualcore
- 11 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit – Die Zeit ist abgelaufen
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