Subj : Re: Bake your graphics card?
To   : Otto Reverse
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Feb 18 2022 18:56:50

 OR> XP.  I wanted to run SP2 but needed SP3 for compatible GeForce drivers
 OR> with my model of card.  Kept strictly offline of course lol.  
 OR> 
 OR> I was playing around with NHL 2004 Rebuilt (some people have been
 OR> modding this particular game continuously for nearly 2 decades now) and
 OR> while it can be made to run on Win 10, it runs natively of course on XP.
 OR> There are other issues to with some older games that won't work (without
 OR> hacks) on wide screen monitors. Not that that has anything to do with
 OR> OS.
 OR> 

I still run XP (as a second partition, Linux is my main one), and I can't get drivers for my GTX 1030 card for XP.  So yes, you would need an older graphics card, though I think the one on the mobo would suffice.  Also, some DOS games don't run on newer cards.

I just use Proton for Windows games, and most I want to play have Linux ports.  What I miss the most is the CRT screen, THAT makes a difference, a CRT feels retro.  I do have a couple of them.

 OR> I just got started with this era, thinking I would get ahead of the
 OR> curve for a change with what is "retro" and highly sought after on eBay.
 OR> That way I could avoid the high prices. The system is a little overkill
 OR> for the era (early dual core cpu and the 8800 graphics card) but that
 OR> allows me to run all the graphics maxed.  Been fun so far.
 OR> 

Good idea, second hard PC's are a bit harder to find than they used to be.  I have one or two that were picked up from the roadside years ago.

My newest "retro" PC is an AMD Duron 700MHz with 768M RAM, GeForce 2 graphics card and SB Awe64, running Windows 98.  It can run DOS games just fine with sound and has a 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 inch drives.  The older ones are 486's and an XT, but that is missing parts.

My current system will run anything after that era with Wine/Proton which is good enough now.  I'm really only interested in older games, not older software (I don't feel the need to run Office 2003 or eDonkey) and for me Wine/Proton is basically the same as having that slightly older PC because the hardware is the same.

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