agent_x007 wrote on 2025-03-06, 00:22:

Dropping support doesn't make card unusable, being lazy in making driver for is though. As per AMD page, RX 6950 XT does have of […]
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Dropping support doesn't make card unusable, being lazy in making driver for is though.
As per AMD page, RX 6950 XT does have official support for Win7.
Being dropped, shouldn't mean card's basic functionality is compromised after X point in time 🤣.

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It's not compatible with Crysis :

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There is something strange going on with your setup.

I have a 6950XT and I run Windows 7 as my main OS. It is not a flawless experience, but most of the issues that I could identify are related to the drivers being old, bugs that were fixed in newer versions. I never had any driver crashes or games that refused to run, for instance.

In fact, I have done a playthrough of Crysis 1, Warhead and Crysis 2 in DX11 just a few weeks ago, on this very machine. I have also successfuly run games like Days Gone or Cyberpunk. I also have the ability to try DXVK, in case there are some D3D bugs in the driver.

My main concern is lack of hardware accelerated PhysX and that the Win7 performance may not be as as good as nVidia 3000 series. There are no comparisons on the internet, due to how niche of an interest this is. I'd love to find a 3080 ti or 3090 to compare, but with the market being as it is and a concerning amount of anecdotes of dead ampere cards, that is not going to be a possibility for me. Perhaps I can get a new old stock 3060.

If anyone wants proof, or exchange benchmark numbers, hit me up. I'd love to contribute.

God Of Gaming wrote on 2025-02-04, 21:18:

I necro to add some observations I have running a 4gb gtx 960 and a 980 on winXP 32bit. I noticed some games (Serious Sam 2, Call of Duty 2 and 4, Nitro Family for example) crash if you go to the video settings menu, change anything and hit apply. Only way to set them up is to manually edit the cfg/ini config file directly instead of using the in-game menu. No such issues using a 3gb gtx780 or a 2gb 750ti, with same 368.81 driver. Anyone else noticed this? Im sure theres more games that behave like that too, its just I noticed those few as I havent tested all that many yet. Seems to be only issue on winXP 32bit, same games on win7 64bit work fine with 4gb vram. On the lookout for a cheap 2gb gtx960 right now for a more apples-to-apples comparison vs the 4gb 960

I might have to retract this, seems like the reason for these crashes Ive been having while applying video settings in some games might be not because of the vram but because of the rivatuner statistics server overlay, seems like turning off msi afterburner and rtss before changing the video settings allows them to apply without a crash