/vr/ - Retro Games

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There were a lot of very capable old machines that simply did not get Vista/7 drivers, despite being able to run it maxed out just fine. Case in point, nForce3 motherboards. If you used a single core CPU and a Geforce card, you could hack it working by using XP drivers (it would still BSOD on install, but you could reboot and install the drivers). But if you used Radeon cards or dual core CPUs, the XP drivers did not work and the system got fucked with tons of crashes and only basic video support.
This was a problem because this was the time when you had the Athlon 64 X2 completely destroying the Intel P4, and the strongest AGP slot cards were all Radeons (specifically the X1950 Pro, but Ati cards were so far ahead at the time that even a venerable 9800 Pro could play most games fine).

I've seen a shitload of people having to deal with that problem, and I had to switch motherboards to a Via chipset of all things myself, but that 64 X2 + X1950 Pro lasted me until 2008.

Yeah, that card came with 2 molex power plugs and you had to make sure you used the right power rails for both plugs, preferably something not shared with anything else, or else most PSUs at the time simply couldn't power it properly.