LGR's Windows XP revisit has unfinished business with DOS

Clint Basinger's anniversary retrospective pairs period games with an audio workaround, while the channel takes a week off uploading.

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Windows XP 25 Years Later! An LGR Retrospective

Windows XP may look like a comfortable home for old games, but Clint Basinger finds a familiar complication: getting the sound to work. In "Windows XP 25 Years Later! An LGR Retrospective", the nostalgia extends beyond startup music to the workarounds that made a PC feel properly yours.

The later stretch explores XP's handling of older DOS programs. "It looks and feels like DOS, but it's not. This is an emulation," Clint explains. He demonstrates VDMSound as a way to address DOS-game audio problems without the overhead of DOSBox. Earlier, even Microsoft's own Plus! pack prompts a hardware upgrade to a Radeon 7000 PCI card. Revisiting the past means revisiting its requirements, too.

LGR posted nothing new this week, but the XP retrospective has reached roughly 1.2 million views and remains the channel's strongest daily draw. Sierra's Screamin' 3D graphics card follows, with June's Nintendo 64 retrospective also keeping the hardware archive active.

Across the channel, the week brought about 1.7 million views. Subscribers held steady, and daily viewing is a little below its usual level. That weekly viewing total sits close to TechLinked's and above TronicsFix's, friendly context for an upload-free stretch rather than a sudden surge.

XP isn't merely a museum exhibit for Clint: near the retrospective's close, he shows how he continues using it for LGR projects, with Homeworld, TrickStyle and Duke Nukem 3D among the games on display.

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Sierra Screamin' 3D Graphics Accelerator from 19961,970,247 views The Nintendo 64 Thirty Years Later! An LGR Retrospective544,013 views

The numbers

Here is how LGR's archive viewing and subscriber total shaped the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

META PCs

28,818,830

Zach's Tech Turf

28,459,828

Hipyo Tech

5,490,574

The Tech Chap

2,914,155

TechLinked

1,685,781

LGR

1,661,569

ZONEofTECH

1,608,854

TronicsFix

1,481,931

Hardware Canucks

1,008,506

subscribers

1,820,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

620,357,679

views per day

188,229

typical day: 198,526

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Zach's Tech Turf

2,070,000

TechLinked

1,980,000

Hardware Canucks

1,920,000

LGR

1,820,000

META PCs

1,810,000

TronicsFix

1,790,000

Hipyo Tech

1,770,000

ZONEofTECH

1,680,000

The Tech Chap

1,650,000

As of November 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.