Wasn't expecting my old thread to get necro'd, interesting.
mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:That Geforce is gonna bottleneck your C2Q big time. What games do you plan on playing?
Well, you were entirely correct. I eventually went to a geforce 6800, then a geforce 7800 when I redid it and got the unofficial drivers working.
For those curious, with rlowe's patches and a number of other tweaks, I got the rig working perfectly. Unfortunately, due to quite a number of life events and changes of interests, I decided to part it out and sell it on eBay as I'm currently doing. Compatibility of Win7/10/What games don't have fixes. Had absolutely nothing to do with its effectiveness, I worked beautifully with dos, windows ME(how I solved the problem of this thread, its far easier and has far less patching options while benefiting more from them.), and XP in every game I tested. I just hated the fact that I needed a dedicated desk, and was trying to reduce the physical presence of nostalgia/vintage hardware from my bedroom in general. I'm basically replacing all of said hardware with an extremely small XP/win10 mini itx for emulation and a low maintenance vintage pc gaming os. At the same time I regret nothing, I've learned a lot and I had more fun with the challenge than the actual finished product.
I also agree that the uploaded cd looks like it would be pretty damn useful for future builds if it works.