First post, by lilkuz2005
- Rank
- Newbie
Hey guys, I have been working on a SFF Windows XP build. I wanted something low profile that I could move around pretty easy but also had some room for expansion and had enough gump to push any old game with the highest settings.
I currently have a z77 chipset motherboard with a i5-3570k cpu, 8gb ddr3 2400mhz memory, a sound blaster x-fi and a Nvidia Quadro K1200 4gb.
I have found an issue with some older games like Colin McRae Rally. The game loads fine but as soon as you enter a race the graphics get all distorted. When I was testing an AMD R7 250 2gb gpu, the game ran perfectly fine. I also noticed this same graphical distortion when running the game on another system with a GTX 980 (4GB). I'm not sure if it's a VRAM issue, or if its a driver issue? I don't have any Nvidia cards with less then 4GB of VRAM at the moment, but I did ask someone on discord and they are running a gtx 750 2gb and the game is working fine with the latest Nvidia driver for windows xp.
Does anyone know if its possible to VBIOS mod a GPU to limit the VRAM? I know some of those fake Chinese cards had some bogus VBIOS settings and would report more VRAM than the card actually had.
asus p3b-f, intel pIII 1000/133/256 thermaltake golden orb, 2x crucial 256mb pc133, nvidia geforce 3, aureal vortex 2, IDE to SD adapter samsung 128gb evo
asus p3v4x, intel pIII 650/100/256, 256mb pc133, 3dfx voodoo 3 3ooo, awe64 value!, 80gb hdd