Oh, yeah you are correct. I spoke too fast.... You would need your second card from a different manufacturer, like an ATI card. I get away with an HD5770 and a Voodoo 3 quite well, but when I want to force a game to use one or the other, I need to set it as my primary display.

How the hell did you burn a card on direct draw? I can understand not working right, but burning it is puzzling, unless your cooling or OC was not to par. Anyways, if high end cards do not work well, window XP will hapilly support a second video card, i don't think there are pcie models ot GF4 mx, …

Actually, the only reason you would need a wrapper on xp is for glide. Try nGlide or alternatively dgVoodoo 1. For directx, win xp supports dx9.0c very well and it is higly retro compatible with dx6 to dx8. I can't speak for dx5 and below since I mostly play these games on win98, but I know that …

You are probably right, but their is nothing like having a v3 playing some old games natively. Call me old fashion 😉

So we are back to a good mix of os, older hardware, and emulators wappers on modern system to get everything running. I mean, this is why I built my system with 98 v3 and xp with hd5770. That with my modern 5950x, rx6750 rig with pcem, I can play all the games I want in mostly their optimal …

Lots of stuff should work fine. I think dgvoodoo 2 uses newer direct X and vulkan APIs in its translation layer, so you might get the best results in say windows 10 compared to windows XP in certain situations. You are correct, dgvoodoo2 does use dx11-12, so you can't use that on XP. However nGlide …

There is an option to scale my hd5770 under xp using the latest supported catalyst driver with hdmi on a lg 2k monitor. For the vga output of my voodoo 3, I am waiting on the delivery of an extron vga-hdmi 300a, which should do the trick. Its good to know that some nvdia cards have an option for it. …

Does the 980ti support gpu scaling for aspect ratio on xp? Its the only thing holding me back from sticking with amd. I really want the better compatibility, but not at the expense of stretchy graphics.

Nuvyi, If you are going to build a win xp system, you will have to install a video card that have supported drivers for win xp. This will limit you to a 780ti or even 980ti (not sure about that one) or even a R290. Anything newer the that, you cannot run on windows xp. For retro compatibility, yes, …

I agree Azarien, This is why I am trying to make my core 2 ultimate retro build with win 98 V3 + win xp hd5770. I did want to get a V1 in the mix, but decided against it because its too expensive and old enough to emulate on PCem. Hell the only reason I setup win 98 in the first place is because of …

Hi nuvyi, I use to think like this as well and ended up givong away my 2 voodoo 2 cards I had. What a mistake. What you will find is that many games will run just fine with either nGlide or dgvoodoo or dgvoodoo 2. However, video card support is not the only requirement for many old games, especially …

Ok, so I ordered a couple extra ssd for win xp and win 7 to have their own drives. Once I get initial installs redone (new in the case of win 7) it should be much easier to handle multiboot. Am I correct to assume that I can just copy the win xp boot manager 4 or 5 files and then edit boot.ini to …

Yeah, I think you are right, going in the dos direction will probably drive me nuts. Dosbox actually seems more apropriate than pcem on my modern rig, just because I can keep all my retro in one system. I will definitly look into it. On the ssd side, I suspect you are also right, I should get a …

Yeah, the 775 is awesome. I am feeling more geekeeness in me to add a win 7 pro. This will also give me the all too important trim on my ssd ntfs partitions. I have not thought of a linux distro. That would add quite a bit to the Frankensteinisity of this build... What about the other direction, …

Hey, l am a noob here. I was able to put this system together using Loew's patches, Phil's awesome videos and website, and the know-how and content contained within the Vogons community. Thank you guys! Scavenging around, i put some parts together and purchased a voodoo 3 and sb0100 card to build …