The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-06-11, 17:04:
GeForce 4 MX will most likely work fine, at least I had no problems on Asus board. D3D will work, but OpenGL may or may not work due to drivers being too new. Why would you want to play DVD on POD83 is beyond me though.
Thank you! Did you test it specifically with the PVI-486SP3? Did you test with a 486-class CPU? I wonder what would happen if you installed the drivers with a POD and then swapped the CPU with a 486.
And the reason is... just for fun. I want the machine to be able to do something modern well. 😀
feipoa wrote on 2020-06-11, 20:08:
If you are going to hunt down a PCI GF4, ensure that you don't find that one that is for the AGP 8x card. The GF4 AGP8X card was also made in a PCI format and it requires much newer drivers than the original GF4 PCI cards. I think NVIDIA version 54.x was required, and this was the oldest driver that would work.
Oh thank you for that, I read your comment just in time, almost bought an MX4000. It was the only one reasonably priced, I guess this is why. Just to be safe I'll stay away from the MX440 too in case it's the 8x version. All the ones I found that are PCI versions of AGP 4x variants are over $100 🙁
I'm still skeptical, I can't find evidence of anyone using a 486 or POD with a card that has a full MPEG-2 decoder, actually installing drivers successfully and playing DVDs, maybe I'm the only one who's ever wanted to do that 🤣. I mean in your own testing on page 1 you said you had issues booting with the GeForce2 MX400 on SiS 496/497, even couldn't find good drivers for RivaTNT, so why would GF4 MX work? Also, isn't there a thing with PCI versions and backward compatibility, I assume my board has PCI 2.0 and the GF4 is PCI 2.2 or 2.3.
Edit: I see there's some disagreement now. I guess I'll wait for now unless I can find a cheap MX420.