Can Windows 3.1 Run on a New Modern PC 2024?

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Can Windows 3.1 Run on a New Modern PC 2023? Today in this video I’ll try to find out is it possible to install Windows 3.1 on a modern hardware in 2023. Enjoy

[itsarian.]

"so, is this the end? of course not."

[jeremiefaucher-goulet]

The artifacts aren't a driver issue. It's actually modern graphic cards that don't implement well the base VGA standard and have bugs in their implementation.
Graphic cards are backward compatible to standard VGA to allow booting, showing POST messages and such, but they expect to switch to proprietary run mode once OS and proprietary drivers are loaded. So no efforts is made to properly support base VGA and once you start doing things a little more intensive, like Windows 3.1 drawing windows, things starts to get glitchy and bugs show up.

You need a better VGA card :P

[nopenottalib]

The reason for the graphical artifacts is because Windows 3.1 (more specifically, the entire Windows 3.x family) used the default VGA driver when it couldn't detect and / or utilize the exact driver for the video card. What does that have to do with anything, you might ask? Well - VGA was not only a specific type of graphics output - it was also an industry standard graphics output. Very similar to CGA and EGA that came before it. The majority of modern graphics cards don't natively support the old analog VGA output. Instead, the cards emulate it, for backwards compatibility. The artifacts you're seeing here are demonstrating that the specific graphics card you are using doesn't do a very good job of emulating the old VGA output.

[chuckwalla]

Man, people used to get excited in anticipation of a new Windows release and line up outside the stores.

[Alpejohn]

I remember i had Win 3.1 on my pc in the early 90's, but i never used it.. Pretty cool to have used old stuff like this and seeing it again. 🙂 Brings back memories!

[poseidon]

I honestly never had much use for Windows in those days. I had it, but didn't really liked it. I didn't even get on the internet. I just played DOS games. Doom, Hexen, Wolfenstein, Panzer General, X-Wing, Hardball 5. I only started using Windows with the release of Windows 95. Windows 1.0 - 3.11 For Workgroups, the desktop was unwieldy. The Program Manager. I'm like WTF is this! 95 desktop was what I was looking for. A proper desktop with program icons you can create, organize, and launch. Maybe I could have made the previous Windows work, but I didn't have programs for it nor bought any. I bought DOS games. Bare metal baby!

[Ryan.Lohman]

Back in Junior High I installed Windows 3.11 with about 10-12 1.44MB floppy disks. Video artifact were present until you installed the right video drivers. We installed it on top of MS-DOS 6.22. In High School (1997-2001) if the teachers had broken computers with windows 95/98 on them, I would install Mandrake Linux on them as it ran applications faster- especially DOS based apps. During this time, schools didn't have IT departments and very few computers had access to internet.

[Hengophone]

I do be feeling like that command line emoji sometimes: alone, in the middle of darkness, smiling hysterically.

[FunkyStudios]

finally a video where its not just emulating the operating system in a virtual machine.

[alexaneals]

Object Packager actually was used to embed objects from one application into another. So, you could embed an excel chart within word. Back in the 1990s Excel and Word were separate applications and you could not copy paste from one to the other like you can today.

[sebcam]

Thank you for the deep plunge back in time. It transported me 30 years earlier, and made me so calm, incredible.
Would so like to play at minesweeper again, it was entertaining my off time when I was a student, at university, at a time almost nobody had a computer at home

[tylerwightman]

The accent makes this video gold 😂. 2 accents i absolutely love....russian and Australian

[PhirePhlame]

I feel like, even though it's even older than Win98, 3.1 is probably also simpler since it's designed as a DOS shell instead of a full operating system.

[Jenci]

Try NT older (NewTechnology) than Windows XP, such as NT3.5, NT4.0 and 2000
It works fine Windows 2000 with all drivers are compatible on GTX 980 (unofficial driver), Z87 board and i5-4690k

[louisax]

Windows 3.1 was my introduction to Windows and trying to fix the things I messed up by mistake.

[AlTheEngineer]

Nice video man, I love Windows 3.1, it brings back so many memories to me. Can you try to fix the drivers issue? I'm curious if its an easy task to accomplish!

[poseidon]

From what I understand DosBox provides a good environment for classic Windows. Installing 95 on DosBox should provide full compatibility for video, sound, and game controllers. I haven't tried it yet.

[IzludeTingel]

any hope in getting EGA and CGA to display correctly even if someone were to try to push a driver? games like quest for glory (ega mode) stay on the prompt and don't display the game, although i can hear the game's music playing. already have dosbox, but the hobby of getting it all to run on metal is just satisfying.

[ENTE_D]

you can actually get sound on windows 3.1 because for some reason someone wrote a HD audio driver for windows 3.1 it also somewhat works on 98 which I was using it for

[TIMEnasa-THKwon]

Time Travel is REAL & FREE. If you don't believe it watch this video. Thank you for that. Windows 3.11 was the most stable OS at that time.