Playing Fortnite on Windows Vista (with Extended Kernel)
Sorry if the video was kind of long. I wanted to make it as nice as possible for this project.
Anyway, ever since Extended Kernel released, I was wondering if it will ever get Fortnite running on Vista. As time progressed, Extended Kernel has become more amazing.
Though, I never saw someone interested about proving Fortnite running on Windows Vista. So I felt like it’s my duty to prove it.
It’s been some time. I first tried it on my mac with parallels desktop. I couldn’t get anywhere further than the lobby because of my mac’s slow performance. Then I tried VMware on my main PC. The SVGA 3D driver from VMware tools was the only one that had DirectX 10 and 11 support. Though, I had huge performance issues.
Since I don’t have a real Vista PC, I thought this would be the end. But I then figured out how to fix performance issues while keeping the same driver. I changed the VM’s compatibility to Workstation 15.x. While I was limited to DirectX 10.1, I fixed performa