Davros wrote:

while later gf cards lack hardware support for palleted textures they do have software support for them same as ati cards
i do beleive they will run
if someone can post a list of a few games to test i wil test them

Er, actually I can't exactly tell whether a particular game uses 8-bit textures or not. However, many people already mentioned Final Fantasy VII. Also, leileilol said that anything made before the year 2000 uses 8-bit palleted textures --probably you may want to try Incoming or Hellbender? I also wonder about games like Crimson Skies --which is made during the year 2000.

Davros wrote:

ps: you know the prob with avp on gf cards its been fixed it was down to a z buffer problem not palleted textures

I see. Probably it is the same problem with that of Delta Force 2? See, while the terrain uses Voxel, the objects use polygons. Nonetheless, when I set z-buffer depth to 32-bit in my ATI Control Panel, the depth of the objects is not drawn correctly --I can see a SCUD truck through the hill, for example. Setting the z-buffer to 16-bit corrects the problem, though.

I didn't play AvP, but does it have the same problem?

Davros wrote:

pps: just tried q3 with 16bit textures and while the sky has banding all the other textures are fine

Just wonder: have you tried disabling texture compression? IIRC nVidia cards tend to have ugly texture compression --most notably example is the "sky banding" in Q3A.

Davros wrote:

guess what frame rate im getting ?
1000fps - woot

Hehehe... That's why I love to play old 3D games on new video cards. However, compatibility problem is such a headache. That's why I always wonder what's the newest video card that still retains most backward compatibilities with older games (especially those during Win9x era). Probably GeForce FX?