SalC1 – Playing Minecraft 1.16 on Windows 98

Today i’m going to answer the question that nobody ever asked is it possible to play the latest version of minecraft on windows 98 now keep in mind this version of windows is 22 years old there’s no way an os this old can run minecraft oh wait what yeah it can well

Sort of anyways today let me take you on my journey to getting minecraft to run on windows but before we get started for many editing videos for the first time can be intimidating if you want to start making clean fully edited videos of your own where do you even begin well filmora is

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To filmora for sponsoring today’s video so let me first introduce you to my friend cortex you may have known him from helping out with the pack.png and title screen seed finding projects he’s basically a programming genius and that’s when i brought up this crazy question to him

Is it possible to run the latest version of minecraft on windows 98 i knew it was viable because i remember seeing other videos where people were successful but they always got stuck having to use older versions of the game well not this time so after a lot of tinkering

Cortex found that a few things had to be done to get the latest version of minecraft to run on windows 98 first by installing kernel x it allows for a lot of programs to run on windows 98 that normally wouldn’t be able to combine that with an installation of

Java and bam we have the minecraft launcher working but before we actually launched the game i had to install a program called autopatcher which pretty much does what the title says it patches the system with even more updates that adds compatibility to windows 98 this took forever to install and the

Crazy part is that we aren’t even done yet the latest version of minecraft requires java 8 to run but java 8 can’t be installed to windows 98 because it’s just too new so the raw java 8 executable would have to be routed to the launcher itself

But even with this the game would still refuse to run turns out that java requires a few dependencies that windows 98 does not have so cortex painstakingly figured out every file that was needed for the game to launch so after hours of setting up modifying other problematic files

And many many game crashes cortex actually got the game to run but wait a sec not so fast before i get into playing the latest version of the game on windows 98 i want to take a step back and play 1.12.2 on my favorite minecraft server 2b2t

Oh my god it’s just gonna work okay 1.6.1 here we go it’s not good okay 1.12 is the latest one that will work without other extra modifications okay so let’s let’s play 2b2t first then escaping 2b spawn on windows 98 it’s gonna be slow as [ __ ] oh my god it’s launching

Oh my god why is the background not showing uh it does that look at the taskbar look at the icon for minecraft it’s totally broken oh my god we are in 2b2tq in windows 98 open f3 yeah open f3 it’s six as it’s 5 fps in the queue

This is horrible why would anyone want to play 2b2t on windows 98 oh i had to change my settings um yeah i got to turn everything down render distance lowest um max spf we’ll do high brightness no particles minimal what frame rate are we getting now um let’s see here oh

Look at that we don’t increase we doubled our we doubled our frame rate look at that 11 fps in the [ __ ] void still better than my school computer okay here we go here we go loading terrain i’m in i’m in and it is laggy as [ __ ] uh let’s

Let’s take a look at my frames here 5 fps 6 fps oh this is terrible but i’m actually playing it though i can walk around i can jump look at my totem look at my stake they’re just glitching out hi i’m playing on windows 98 no joke i’m actually playing on

Windows 98 future video [Laughter] i’m going through a portal it is laggy as [ __ ] and oh my god this is this is absolutely horrendous i cannot see anywhere oh my gosh 3 fps if you shrink your window size down it will increase your fps quite up

Oh yeah that’s true yeah let me do that oh my gosh wait this is playable look at this yeah i thought it 16 fps this is extremely playable i mean oh oh no oh no it crashed i think it crashed no it it did it’s worse than that don’t worry

It’s worse how’s it worse i mean because the entire vm’s frozen you’re gonna have to kill the vm [Laughter] no beautiful my minecraft on windows 98 okay we’ll kill the vm all right now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for 1.16 the latest version of minecraft now running it isn’t as straightforward

As you’d think every time you launch the game you have to copy these files to the natives folder while the game is starting so you only have just a few seconds to do it but if you get it right this will happen oh my god oh oh it’s doing something it’s doing

Something you mean it’s loading yes oh my god what this is so sketchy so you have to do that every time you start 1.16 yep oh yeah oh i see it oh that’s slow that is slow wow that is the slowest title screen that i’ve ever seen you said single player doesn’t work

So it multiplies only yeah high pixel should work though okay let’s try hypixel yeah oh it’s it’s working it’s working oh okay we’re in we’re in we’re actually in it’s frozen oh no it moved one frame oh it moved another frame guy we have we have surpassed three frames

Within a few seconds four frames oh i didn’t change the video settings oh maybe i should disconnect and change them it’s just too slow probably yeah the next fastest thing is to just shrink your screen yeah um so that’s i think that’s what i’ll do okay let’s give this another try

Oh okay wow that’s a lot better all right so wow that’s a lot of that’s a lot of people in the lobby here let’s go to classic games wow that’s slow this is okay let’s see how many fps i’m getting in three five fps in this tiny little window

Eight i mean that’s not oh geez the thing is it’s possible to play this it’s possible but it is just horribly slow okay let’s do a game of play craft here um i mean it is it is working 15 oh wow that’s that’s great fps that is playable

12 fps we can i can do this my aim will be absolutely horrendous but it’ll work oh the chat is literally blocking the screen oh i got him i got him i got the kill i was the first one i got the first kill and i’m running windows 98

How did i do that oh yes i i’m gonna get another kill i missed no okay let me get the let me get the rapid fire oh no he got the rapid fire okay i gotta find someone i gotta find someone come on i i can’t just be one it

Can’t just be one kill i gotta get at least two kills i think i see a name tag yes no so close yes there’s a guy right there oh did i get him i don’t think i did no i did i did two oh yes nice honestly i don’t think

Anyone has even attempted to play hypixel on an os this old come on you gotta do it we gotta do it we gotta do it settings we gotta do 256 colors we we gotta do it oh my god this looks horrible how this this there is no way in hell

This is gonna be playable there is no way i can’t even see anything it’s not even any faster either nope it doesn’t make any sense it’s literally rendering less colors the dirt screen doesn’t even show it’s just black it doesn’t know what to render oh this is the worst this is my worst

Favorite map too oh this is gonna be terrible look everything’s like all gray and like red it’s just horribly ugly and and of course the chat is in the way so i can’t oh they’re like i’m so close there’s a guy right there okay is it possible for me to play in 16

Or two colors well there’s one way to find out let’s just go all the way yeah sure but you’re gonna have to restart your pc yeah okay we’ll restart it i don’t care okay here it goes oh no look at that oh my god there is no way this is going to work

Sorry but this release of java only requires 16 colors there’s an error built in for this okay we’ll screw it we’ll try 16 colors then okay you want more colors we’ll give you more colors geez java can be so picky sometimes it wants to run it’s kind of frozen oh wait oh okay

So it’s you’re gonna have to just click the pl where the play button would be there yeah it’s gonna launch but everything’s gonna be transparent yeah and it might just do that well we’ll have to see it’s no no oh my god it works what it can’t even

Render the launcher but it can render the game how does it even work oh my gosh i’m at the title screen okay hi going on a hypixel this is going to be the minecraft 16 color experience never in minecraft history has this been done we are moving on history oh okay

Oh what is that character oh dude it’s it’s really slow look at how the frames are rendering i gotta i have to reduce the size of the screen here this is an abomination i have no other words to to put this this is this 16 colors the right the frames are barely rendering

This is the lowest spec that you can ever play minecraft java edition period you can’t go more than this oh i see someone i see no that was you oh my god everything’s just gray and black oh i see you i see you stop so i can kill you

Stop i got you yes yes i have one kill but i basically cheated so there you have it the latest version of minecraft on windows 98 it’s stupid but it works thanks again to cortex for making this possible and i’ll see you all later you