Using OpenMPT on historic systems

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Running OpenMPT on historic systems

These tables might be useful if you want to use OpenMPT on old systems.

If you found a bug in the current version (marked green or orange), or have other issues that prevent you from upgrading, please don't just go back to using an old version.
Instead, please report the bug so that we can actually fix it.

Any version of OpenMPT that is marked red or purple is not supported any more by the OpenMPT team. We will not fix any bugs in unsupported OpenMPT versions.

Any version of Windows that is marked red or purple is not supported any more by Microsoft, and should not be used with any connection to an untrusted network, especially not the internet.

The information presented here is based on historic documentation and in some cases on guesses only. It in particular has not been verified on actual systems.

Minimum system requirements for OpenMPT versions

OpenMPT	minimum Windows Versions	minimum Wine Version	minimum CPU features	minimum CPUs
OpenMPT 1.30 test builds	Windows 10	1.8	686 + SSE2 amd64 ARMv7 + VFPv3 AArch64	686+SSE2: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64, VIA C7, Transmeta Efficeon amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A arm arm64
OpenMPT 1.30-legacy test builds	Windows 7	1.8	686 + SSE2 amd64	686+SSE2: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64, VIA C7, Transmeta Efficeon amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.30-retro test builds	Windows XP	1.8	586 + CPUID amd64	586+CPUID: Intel Pentium, AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86MX, NSC Geode GX1, VIA Cyrix III, Transmeta Crusoe, SiS 55x, RDC IAD 100 amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.29 OpenMPT 1.29 download	Windows 7	1.8	686 + SSE2 amd64	686+SSE2: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64, VIA C7, Transmeta Efficeon amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.28 OpenMPT 1.28.10 (x86 installer) OpenMPT 1.28.10 (amd64 installer) OpenMPT 1.28.10 (x86 zip) OpenMPT 1.28.10 (amd64 zip)	Windows 7	1.8	686 + SSE2 amd64	686+SSE2: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64, VIA C7, Transmeta Efficeon amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.28-old OpenMPT 1.28.10-old (x86 installer) OpenMPT 1.28.10-old (amd64 installer) OpenMPT 1.28.10-old (x86 zip) OpenMPT 1.28.10-old (amd64 zip)	Windows XP	1.8	586 + CPUID amd64	586+CPUID: Intel Pentium, AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86MX, NSC Geode GX1, VIA Cyrix III, Transmeta Crusoe, SiS 55x, RDC IAD 100 amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.27 OpenMPT 1.27.11 (x86 installer) OpenMPT 1.27.11 (amd64 installer) OpenMPT 1.27.11 (x86 zip) OpenMPT 1.27.11 (amd64 zip)	Windows 7	1.8	686 + SSE2 amd64	686+SSE2: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64, VIA C7, Transmeta Efficeon amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.27-old OpenMPT 1.27.11-old (x86 installer) OpenMPT 1.27.11-old (amd64 installer) OpenMPT 1.27.11-old (x86 zip) OpenMPT 1.27.11-old (amd64 zip)	Windows XP	1.6	586 + CPUID amd64	586+CPUID: Intel Pentium, AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86MX, NSC Geode GX1, VIA Cyrix III, Transmeta Crusoe, SiS 55x, RDC IAD 100 amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.25..1.26 OpenMPT 1.26.14 (x86 installer) OpenMPT 1.26.14 (amd64 installer) OpenMPT 1.26.14 (x86 zip) OpenMPT 1.26.14 (amd64 zip)	Windows 7	1.4	686 + SSE2 amd64	686+SSE2: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64, VIA C7, Transmeta Efficeon amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.25-old..1.26-old OpenMPT 1.26.14-old (x86 installer) OpenMPT 1.26.14-old (x86 zip)	Windows 2000 Windows 98 SE + KEx	1.0	586 amd64	586: Intel Pentium, AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86, Rise mP6, IDT WinChip C6 586+CPUID: NSC Geode GX1, VIA Cyrix III, Transmeta Crusoe, SiS 55x, RDC IAD 100 amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.23..1.24 OpenMPT 1.24.04 (x86 installer) OpenMPT 1.24.04 (amd64 installer) OpenMPT 1.24.04 (x86 zip) OpenMPT 1.24.04 (amd64 zip)	Windows 2000 Windows 98 SE + KEx	1.0	586 amd64	586: Intel Pentium, AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86, Rise mP6, IDT WinChip C6 586+CPUID: NSC Geode GX1, VIA Cyrix III, Transmeta Crusoe, SiS 55x, RDC IAD 100 amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano,  Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.19..1.22 OpenMPT 1.22.07 (x86 installer) OpenMPT 1.22.07 (x86 zip)	Windows 2000 Windows 98 SE + KEx	1.0	586	586: Intel Pentium, AMD K5, Cyrix 6x86, Rise mP6, IDT WinChip C6 586+CPUID: NSC Geode GX1, VIA Cyrix III, Transmeta Crusoe, SiS 55x, RDC IAD 100 amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano,  Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
OpenMPT 1.17..1.18 OpenMPT 1.18.03 (x86 installer) OpenMPT 1.18.03 (x86 zip)	Windows 2000 Windows 98 SE	0.x	486DX	486: Intel 80486DX, AMD Am486 DX, Cyrix Cx486DX, NexGen Nx586-PF, DM&P Vortex86DX 586: Rise mP6, IDT WinChip C6 586+CPUID: NSC Geode GX1, VIA Cyrix III, Transmeta Crusoe, SiS 55x, RDC IAD 100 amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A
ModPlug Tracker 1.00..1.16 ModPlug Tracker 1.16.207 (x86 zip)	Windows NT4 Windows 95	0.x	486DX	486: Intel 80486DX, AMD Am486 DX, Cyrix Cx486DX, NexGen Nx586-PF, DM&P Vortex86DX 586: Rise mP6, IDT WinChip C6 586+CPUID: NSC Geode GX1, VIA Cyrix III, Transmeta Crusoe, SiS 55x, RDC IAD 100 amd64: Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon 64, VIA Nano, Zhaoxin Kaixian ZX-A

• green: supported OpenMPT version
• orange: supported OpenMPT version for older systems
• red: unsupported OpenMPT version
• purple: unsupported OpenMPT version, there are newer versions with the same minimum system requirements available

Latest OpenMPT version that runs on a given Operating System and CPU configuration

Windows	486DX	586	586+CPUID	686+SSE2	amd64	Windows
Windows 95	1.16	1.16	1.16	1.16	-	Windows 95
Windows 98	1.16	1.16	1.16	1.16	-	Windows 98
Windows 98 SE	1.18	1.18	1.18	1.18	-	Windows 98 SE
Windows ME	-	1.18	1.18	1.18	-	Windows ME
Windows 98 SE + KEx	1.18	1.26-old	1.26-old	1.26-old	-	Windows 98 SE + KEx
Windows ME + KEx	-	1.26-old	1.26-old	1.26-old	-	Windows ME + KEx
Windows	486DX	586	586+CPUID	686+SSE2	amd64	Windows
Wine 0.x.x	1.18	1.18	1.18	1.18	-	Wine 0.x.x
Wine 1.0.x	1.18	1.26-old	1.26-old	1.26-old	-	Wine 1.0.x
Wine 1.2.x	1.18	1.26-old	1.26-old	1.26-old	-	Wine 1.2.x
Wine 1.4.x	1.18	1.26-old	1.26-old	1.26	-	Wine 1.4.x
Wine 1.6.x	-	-	1.27-old	1.27-old	1.27-old	Wine 1.6.x
Wine 1.8.x	-	-	1.28-old	1.29 / 1.30	1.29 / 1.30	Wine 1.8.x
Wine 2.0.x	-	-	1.28-old	1.29 / 1.30	1.29 / 1.30	Wine 2.0.x
Wine 3.0.x	-	-	1.28-old	1.29 / 1.30	1.29 / 1.30	Wine 3.0.x
Wine 4.0.x	-	-	1.28-old	1.29 / 1.30	1.29 / 1.30	Wine 4.0.x
Wine 5.0.x	-	-	1.28-old	1.29 / 1.30	1.29 / 1.30	Wine 5.0.x
Windows	486DX	586	586+CPUID	686+SSE2	amd64	Windows
Windows NT4	1.16	1.16	1.16	1.16	-	Windows NT4
Windows 2000	-	-	1.26-old	1.26-old	-	Windows 2000
Windows XP	-	-	1.28-old / 1.30-retro	1.28-old / 1.30-retro	1.28-old / 1.30-retro	Windows XP
Windows Vista	-	-	1.28-old / 1.30-retro	1.28-old / 1.30-retro	1.28-old / 1.30-retro	Windows Vista
Windows 7	-	-	-	1.29 / 1.30	1.29 / 1.30	Windows 7
Windows 8	-	-	-	1.29 / 1.30	1.29 / 1.30	Windows 8
Windows 8.1	-	-	-	1.29 / 1.30	1.29 / 1.30	Windows 8.1
Windows 10	-	-	-	1.29 / 1.30	1.29 / 1.30	Windows 10
Windows	486DX	586	586+CPUID	686+SSE2	amd64	Windows

Compiling historic OpenMPT versions

Version

1.00-1.16

MPT Wild!

1.17

1.18

1.19

1.20-1.22

1.23-1.24

1.25

1.26

1.27

1.28

1.29

1.30

Timeframe

1998-2004

2004

2004-2009

2010

2011

2012-2013

2014-2015

2015

2016-2017

2017-2018

2019-2020

2020-2021

2021-...

Primary Compiler Secondary Compiler

VS6

VS2003

VS2003

VS2003

VS2008

VS2008

VS2008 VS2010

VS2010 VS2008

VS2010 VS2008

VS2015

VS2017

VS2019

VS2019 VS2017

Other Compilers

VS6

VS2008

VS2010

VS2010

VS2012 VS2013 VS2015

VS2012 VS2013 VS2015

VS2017

VS2015

VS2017

Version

1.00-1.16

MPT Wild!

1.17

1.18

1.19

1.20-1.22

1.23-1.24

1.25

1.26

1.27

1.28

1.29

1.30

MS-DOS 6 (1993-1995)

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Windows 3.11 (1993-1995)

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Windows 3.11 + Win32s (1995-1996)

maybe

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Version

1.00-1.16

MPT Wild!

1.17

1.18

1.19

1.20-1.22

1.23-1.24

1.25

1.26

1.27

1.28

1.29

1.30

Windows 95 (1995-2001)

yes

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Windows 98 (1998-1999)

yes

maybe

maybe

maybe

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Windows 98 SE (1999-2006)

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Windows ME (2000-2006)

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Windows 98 SE + KernelEx (2009-2013)

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

no

no

no

Windows ME + KernelEx (2009-2013)

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

no

no

no

Version

1.00-1.16

MPT Wild!

1.17

1.18

1.19

1.20-1.22

1.23-1.24

1.25

1.26

1.27

1.28

1.29

1.30

Windows NT 3.5 (1994-2001)

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Windows NT 3.51 (1995-2001)

maybe

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Windows NT4 (1996-2004)

yes

maybe

maybe

maybe

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

Windows 2000 (2000-2010)

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

no

no

no

Windows XP (2001-2014)

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

retro

Windows Vista (2006-2017)

maybe

maybe

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

retro

Windows 7 (2009-2020)

maybe

maybe

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Windows 8 (2012-2016)

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Windows 8.1 (2013-2023)

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Windows 10 (2015-____)

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

maybe

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Version

1.00-1.16

MPT Wild!

1.17

1.18

1.19

1.20-1.22

1.23-1.24

1.25

1.26

1.27

1.28

1.29

1.30