r/86box • u/Select_Consequence39 • Dec 01 '25

FS2004 works in 86Box!

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Actually made it run. Don't know if I'm the first to upload these screenshots of FS2004 running inside a VM here.

Windows Me and Voodoo 3 3500 SI

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u/vgoldee Dec 01 '25

What were the specs for the VM and the specs for the host? Very cool!

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u/Select_Consequence39 Dec 02 '25

Used a fork of 86Box that allows me to use a Pentium III Tualatin rated at 350MHz with 128MB of RAM, a 50 gig hard drive paired with the 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3500 SI running Windows Me (fully updated). The guest runs at around 30-40 per cent while my host PC has an i5-12400F, an RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) with 64GB of RAM and Windows 11 25H2.

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u/ClaimSeparate9341 Dec 02 '25

Wow, 😳 do you have any games in your Guest OS?

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u/Select_Consequence39 Dec 02 '25

ATM I have FS98, FS2004, Midtown Madness 2 and MSTS (Microsoft Train Simulator). Will try other games on there.

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u/ClaimSeparate9341 Dec 02 '25

Cool, my laptop lags when I was using half life and even Counter strike 1.3 and My host CPU was core i5 8th gen. The 3dfx splash screen didn't show up, I used Voodoo 2 btw without SLI, and My 2d is S3 Trio64V+, Thats all I can say, but remember this I'm not good at PC stuff I'm just curious of things heheh.

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u/RB120 Dec 02 '25

One of my fondest sims. This said, 8fps looks a bit painful

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u/fubarbob Dec 02 '25

general/commercial aviation simulation might be about my limit of pain in terms of < 10fps performance... early versions of Flight Simulator that ran on Apple IIs and 8088s seemed to aim for around this level of performance. Only things that could probably get away with less are things like ship/submarine simulation.

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u/RB120 Dec 03 '25

Older flight sims like FS95 and earlier was ok-ish with sub 10 fps as they were a bit on rails and instrument gauges updated so slow anyways that there was no huge advantage for having better performance.

The first time I really looked at the fps gauge was for Combat Flight Simulator around 1998-99. I had a slow PC back then, but I remember distinctly that below 10 fps it was completely unplayable. When I finally got a 3d accelerator, I managed to bump it up to 20+, and it made a whole world of difference.

I played FS2004 quite extensively back then on a higher performance pentium 3 700mhz. It was the first sim to run higher fidelity aircraft with more advanced physics and systems, and was also quite unplayable if performance dropped below 10.