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nostalgicsoftwarezone · 3 months

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How to Upgrade Graphics in Windows 95 & 98 on VirtualBox with BearWindows

Anyone using Windows 95 and Windows 98 on VirtualBox is bound to have, at some point, been stuck with a pitiful screen resolution of 640 x 480 and 16 colours, which is not only super ugly, especially with the programs and backgrounds you'll want to use with the OS, but you'll find that the performance is down the drain.

There are two well-known ways of upgrading the graphics in Windows 95 & 98 - SciTech and BearWindows. This tutorial will cover the BearWindows method. This will give you 24/32-bit colour and larger screen resolutions. However, you may be unable to get any widescreen resolutions.

First, you will want to download the BearWindows drivers. Here's the webpage regarding the project. And here's the download link you should use. Now, you can either put these files in an *.iso file that you can insert into your VM, or you can open the virtual hard drive and place the files in there. I chose the former (and I'm glad I did because I'm now using it in multiple VMs!).

With the files now available to the VM, take a snapshot. TAKE A SNAPSHOT OF THE VM IN CASE SOMETHING GOES WRONG! Then go to Display Settings, click Advanced, go to Adapter and click Change. As you go through the wizard, select the second option (Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location...), and then select Have Disk. Now, in the file browser, go to where the display driver upgrade is. The display driver you want will be located in 032mb, 064mb or 128mb. The numbers represent how much video memory each version of the driver will be able to handle, so you're probably best off choosing the one in the 128mb folder.

In the Select Device prompt, select "Show all hardware", then select VBE Miniport - Standard PCI Graphics Adapter. The other options may not work at all. Just keep going through the rest of the wizard and return to Settings in Display Properties***. You should be able to change the colours to 32 bit and increase the display resolution without restarting. If that isn't possible, first try changing the screen resolution and colour depth on their own (screen resolution first works best for me). If it still says you have to restart, you will have to go through the entire wizard again, trying different device options until you can change the screen resolution or colour depth without restarting.

Also, while you're at it, make sure your monitor is set to the Plug and Play one. The process is similar to changing the graphics driver, but you don't have to browse for the driver:

In fact, you might want to do this BEFORE upgrading your display driver, especially on Windows 95.

And that's how to upgrade your graphics on Windows 98 and possibly even Windows 95. But that's not all for this tutorial. There's still some important information to get through:

***Mostly THIS error for Windows 95 users:

If you get this error, you will have to click Close and restart the VM, as this error prevents you from even opening the Display Settings. If you get an error upon restarting about the display settings, you will have to click Cancel when the Display Settings appears to prevent this error from happening twice in a row.

You are probably going to get this error after you've installed the display driver and left the Advanced Settings in order to set the screen resolution and colour depth. If upon restarting your computer, however, the colours look different than before (due to 256 colours), that's a good sign and you just have to change the screen resolution and colour depth without restarting the VM.

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customloading297 · 3 years

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Forenote: Windows 9x is not officially supported by VirtualBox team, which means, that it lacks Guest VM Additions, and it runs slowly, because VirtualBox is not optimized to run Win 9x. 1. Installation - I won't cover here in detail, except few points. Most CD-ROMs available for Windows 95/98 are not bootable, which means, that you must boot from DOS floppy, install DOS first and only then install Windows 95/98. *It does require DOS skills* Official bootable CD media is starting from 98SE. So if you're newbie, you should use Windows 98 SE bootable CD. Additionally I strongly suggest to limit system RAM to 512 MB for those OSes. Otherwise it will crash. (There are workarounds, that allow Win 9x run on modern physical systems, but I won't go into detail here) In some cases enabling or disabling AMD-V/VT-x can help you install the O.S. For this tutorial, I presume, that you are able to install the OS. Installing with ACPI: (contributed by Richard_S) Contrary to what you may have read here in some of the other VirtualBox Win98 threads, this is NOT because Win98se is a poorly written piece of antiquated crap that doesn't even know how to properly handle CPU IDLE. Back when a lot of todays young Linux geeks were still pooping their dipiys, Win98 was already supporting ACPI functions to create greener PCs and help keep laptops from running down their batteries in 10 minutes (which is exactly what DID happen to me the first time I installed Linux on a laptop that was working FINE in Win98). So, long story short, there is NOTHING really wrong with Win98, the problem is that VirtualBox's emulated BIOS doesn't fully match up with what Win98 expects a real ACPI BIOS to look like, so by default Win98 will not install ACPI support (and unfortunately, the older APM support doesn't handle CPU IDLE, so we get problems). The solution is to FORCE ACPI support to be installed, by using the /p j command line switch when running the setup program that installs Win98. This means that you can't just jam the virtual CD into the virtual CD drive and let 'autorun' take care of everything. The best way to handle this is to simply move the Win98 install folder from the Windows 98 SE CD onto your virtual C: drive in VirtualBox, then change directory to that folder in a DOS prompt and run the setup program manually: setup /p j This will force ACPI power management (and the associated CPU IDLE functions) to be installed, and your Win98 virtual machine will consume no more system resources when running than a similar XP or Linux virtual machine. 2. Sound /Audio Integration. In VirtualBox, you must enable Sound, and use 'Sound Blaster 16'. It is available since VBox 1.6.0. The procedure for installation is rather simple: NOTE: The procedure below is only needed if you switch from AC'97 to SB16. It is not needed, if you create new VM with SB16, then install Win98 on it. 2.1. Delete your sound card device and all unknown devices from 'Device Manager'. 2.2 Add New Hardware (from Control Panel).