Windows XP x86 guest has bad performance in GTA III, Need for Speed Underground 2, and Carbon

ORIGINALLY POSTED IN THE r/vmware SUBREDDIT, BUT IT GOT REMOVED.

Hello everyone. I have a Windows XP Professional x86 SP3 guest running on a Windows 11 x64 host on VMware Workstation 25h2. They run great, but most of the time, lag spikes occur. With Underground 2 and Carbon, however, the game freezes, then speeds up to 2x, causing me to crash into a wall and lose half of my speed. Those are the specs of the guest

• 2 IDE disks. Each of them has 40 GB and 80 GB (the games are stored on a smaller disk)
• 2 virtual cores
• 3 GB of RAM
• Floppy disk drive

However, on another VM with Windows 7 x86 installed, running with the same specs, they run without lag spikes and on the same graphics settings.

The Tools version is the last version supported for XP