Re: AMD Geode in S7 motherboard
Posted on 2012-01-16, 19:11
I tried looking around. I couldn't find anything that convinced me these chips are available in socket7 pinouts.
Re: AMD Geode in S7 motherboard
Posted on 2012-01-17, 01:06
I saw those, but they only seemed to go up to 266MHz or so.
Re: AMD Geode in S7 motherboard
Posted on 2012-01-17, 01:23
Which means that the description on the wiki is misleading but hey, what else is new when it comes to wiki 😜
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-18, 13:08
I agree with Tetrium about the HD3450 and HD5450 not being used correctly. I really doubt you'd get NVidia cards working well under such conditions either. Now the HD6450, could be that it doesn't have good drivers for XP. Not an excuse, but that card is pretty new and XP is now 2 generations old. …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-19, 20:03
The Radeon 6450 was send back to the shop today, Gigabyte support could not explain the screenshot and advised me to return the card. I marked the card a little, so I will know when they decide to send me that bad specimen back. Without going into details, I always recommend buying Intel and Nvidia. …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-19, 20:13
The problem now doesn't rely on the OS, but the video drivers. 99% of the games I have run on W7, but with visual artifacts, unless I use a very old driver from 2007 or something. Even on XP I needed to stop upgrading the drivers since last year for them to work right. I may go to ATI if I move to …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-19, 21:42
No worries Gerwin! Hmm the GT520 is really a media centre card, not that recommended for playing games. And it's very new. For XP I would really start off with some second hand cards like the ones I listed. Or even older ones. Because the thing is for a GT520 there aren't any old drivers, the card …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-20, 04:05
I really like ati, i have no idea why. 4 of my machines have ATI gpu's and 2 of then nvidia. My 3 big machienes all have ati cards and i don't have that many issues. i own: Radeon hd 6970, Radeon x1900xtx, radeon 9000pro, radeon 7000 (dosn't work in 3D) and a rage 2. were as a own some oem 256mb …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-20, 12:57
Mau1wurf1977 wrote: I'd really do like a driver timeline (yearly), also add cards and then the games. You kinda need to match the card, driver and game in order to have zero issues. I agree. Matters less if it's Nvidia or ATi. What matters is trying to match the hardware and drivers with the game …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-20, 13:07
My only cons: - Shadowmap depth fail on 16 instead of 24 - GPU scaling aspect isn't correctable if your desktop resolution differs in aspect (no 4:3 in 16:9 resolutions) - An unneccessary hotkey manager
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-20, 14:12
filipetolhuizen wrote: I know that. I wonder what are the ATI issues and if they take too long to get fixed. Well for one thing, Ati doens't support OpenGl as good as Nvidia does (less fps), don't know if it is a driver thing or that it´s because of different hardware.
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-20, 18:08
Probably a driver thing, because it's reported to get worse under Linux.
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-20, 20:58
Procyon wrote: Well for one thing, Ati doens't support OpenGl as good as Nvidia does (less fps), don't know if it is a driver thing or that it´s because of different hardware. Thats not going to be an issue as any old ogl game is going to run at a massive framerate eg: quake 3 8800gts 1280x1024 …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-20, 23:13
Thats not going to be an issue as any old ogl game is going to run at a massive framerate eg: quake 3 8800gts 1280x1024 999fps For me it is, I play Grand Prix Legends a lot, and with my old Geforce 9600 GT I had much better performance in OpenGl than with my new Radeon HD 6770 in Direct3D. Don't …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-23, 22:29
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-24, 01:00
I don't trust that Coca Cola very much. They have been screwing things up really bad.
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-25, 16:50
Having tried many of the generations of ATI cards as well as NVidia boards I believe the only ATI hardware better than NVidia hardware was from the 9800 - X800. Anything other than that Nvidia stuff has always been more stable/compatible. Basically for me I just make sure Nvidia didn't screw up this …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-25, 17:23
McMick wrote: Nvidia = Coca Cola ATI = Store Brand Cola That is all. So they both suck.
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-29, 22:02
I have seen myself that there can indeed be a specific graphics card issue with a given make/model of motherboard. Sometimes it is a BIOS setting causing the problem, the defaults would cause issues or the machine would not post for example. I have seen where just a certain motherboard revision on …
Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.
Posted on 2012-01-29, 22:15
I see. The first HD6450 I installed had plenty of problems on my system, see the first post. Changing it with Intel graphics or a HD5450 made the problems dissappear.
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