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[–] pangaea [S] ago 

UPDATE: tried playing need for speed Porsche unleashed on an XP VM. Slightly laggy but definitely playable. http://imgur.com/PMWcgA8

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[–] ABastionOfFreeSpeech ago 

I'd suggest using a third-party hypervisor, rather than Hyper-V, as there are only a few cards that are supported for direct passthrough with Hyper-V, and they're all expensive. I know that VirtualBox has some support for 3d graphics processing.

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[–] pangaea [S] ago 

I'm using VMWare.

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[–] Foul_Knave ago 

any suggestions?

You can find a rig that plays XP-era games literally in a dumpster, and XP is laughably easy to crack.

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[–] pangaea [S] ago 

I could probably even slap together a rig out of spare parts, perhaps with some dirt cheap ones on Ebay. Though with a VM I can play those games while doing other things on my main machine, or even copy/paste the entire system to other machines.

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[–] pangaea [S] ago 

Also if I went the dual boot route I would get some really spectacular performance on modern hardware :P (see my specs in OP)