First post, by Ace
I have an AOpen XCcube computer on which I'm trying to set up a dual-boot with Windows ME and Windows XP, but I'm having a really hard time because of the graphics cards being problematic. My idea is to use either a GeForce 6200 or a Radeon 9800 Pro on this computer, but both cards have given me major problems:
-In Windows ME, trying to get the Radeon 9800 Pro to work is a nightmare as the drivers are quite a handful and as soon as a game either boots or renders 3D graphics, the computer crashes
-In Windows ME, the GeForce 6200 works perfectly, but on Windows XP, I have performance issues as well severe graphical corruption in games, sometimes even causing crashes
Due to all the problems I had with the Radeon 9800 Pro on Windows ME, I have never used it on Windows XP. The main reason for this dual-boot setup is due to some games with CD-DA audio not working properly with replacement WINMM.DLL files like _INMM.DLL (severe slowdown or full system crashes on Windows 98 and ME) and OGG-WINMM (does not work at all on Windows 98 and ME, but works on XP). I mentioned this problem elsewhere on the forum, but the only solution has been using Daemon Tools, which gave me some seriously degraded performance with slower computers, in particular, so I'm not using this anymore.
I currently have an eVGA GeForce 6200 in the XCcube and I would like to focus on this card first. It's using the 307.83 drivers right now, and I'm wondering if this is the reason for the problems I'm having in Windows XP. The thing is I need a driver where I can upscale 640x480 to 1920x1080 (preferably with aspect correction, but that's not necessary - I can enable a scaler in Windows ME which upscales all lower resolutions to 1920x1080 since I need this for video capture) and I know the 307.83 drivers can do this via custom resolutions. If this is a driver issue, what driver would you recommend I use for this card on Windows XP with custom resolution support?
I will get to the Radeon 9800 Pro another time, but some pointers to good Windows ME drivers would be a start since everything I've tried gave messy results to the point of causing BSODs (some of them caused full system crashes) while trying to adjust certain settings.
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