Best card for XP, no one seems to know this.

[AnonymousGuy]

9 minutes ago, SherylinRM said:

@anonymousguy

 

Thanks. I have literally hundreds of old games and wanted to continue using winxp natively.

Many are 16 bit as well.

Anyhow, thanks for the advise

 

 

Have you considered running an XP virtual machine (VirtualBox, VMWare, etc) from within Windows 7 or newer?  Then you can run whatever card you want and presumably the VM's virtual video card will have enough power to drive those super-old games.

[xGGAx]

the best xp machine would be a core 2 duo or core 2 quad with a 8800 GT or GTX if you can find one. That was like the best hardware before vista came out.

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, SherylinRM said:

I want to make the best Windows XP rig I can for my older games.

I have one with windows 7 thanks.

I wonder who knows which graphics is the best for winXP.

Yes I know there are good ones out there but few have drivers anymore.

So if someone knows then thanks ahead of time

 

This seems to be an extremely difficult question as no one seems to know the answer to it.

I am hoping you good people here know it.

Thanks again

Some newer cards have support for xp. AMD even has xp drivers for the 300 series and fury cards.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/windows-legacy

 

Nvidia offers xp drivers for the gtx 960/950, and 700/600/500/400 cards, as well as earlier 8/9 series cards.

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/105040/en-us

[SherylinRM]

@xggax

I tried emulation and it just isn't the same.

But thanks

 

@ anonymousguy

Your suggestion was spot on for gigabyte. They still support xp in the 700 series.

 

@slayr

I will look again, however the last time I did they said they no longer supported xp.

I must have missed the left turn when searching lol Thanks for the link.

[SherylinRM]

@xggax

Oh yeah. Also found that getting into files for things like roller coaster or sim city were so difficult to impossible that I gave up and even uninstalled windows 7 for a while until being forced against my will to reinstall it for other programs.

I ALSO found that windows 7 does not seem able to emulate for 16 bit games.

Thanks though for the suggestion.

[SherylinRM]

Thank you for everyones help.

Now just waiting for a decent Canadian price as the 760 is 300 dollars and up GTX.

Look at ncix for the price.

Sorry I do not have a credit card [never will] so that will stop amazon or ebay comments [save everyone some time typing lol].

 

Thank you every one

 

@slayr

I am downloading the file as I type.

Thank you VERY much for the link

 

I knew coming here I would find smart people

 

Thanks again to everyone that helped

[TheRandomness]

@SherylinRM You need to click their name when using the @ thingy otherwise it doesn't show up. Alternatively, you can click the small arrow underneath their post to quote them. I don't have any solutions to the question you asked, I was just pointing this out c:

[SherylinRM]

Ok I clicked your name and nothing.

Also I posted a "@" and then clicked and nothing again. Soooo not sure what to do here.

Oh well. Stuff happens

 

Thanks again everyone for your help.

I am going to try to mark this one solved

[Bever]

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[Joshe343]

On 9/22/2016 at 9:51 PM, Moderateshadow said:

honestly.. just run in compatibility mode. 

 

i play GTA SA every day on win 10

Compatibility mode doesn't work for a lot of games (ex: Halo 2 Vista, King Kong, etc..).