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Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

You can install XPDM drivers on Windows 7, Windows 7 is last Windows OS to support them. Aero won't work but you can then use full screen NTVDM if you want. That is only for 32bit windows 7 though, right? If I understood correctly 64bit windows 7 requires drivers to be signed. Also I read that …

Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

I was thinking of buying something like PCI Geforce FX 5500 for a haswell system that has the integrated Intel HD 4600 already and trying to install XP or Vista drivers to with 32bit windows 7 in it and get better compatibility with older games. Nobody has any idea what are the chances to getting …

Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Anyone has any experience of installing secondary gpu and 32bit windows 7 to newer system that has pci slots and trying to install windows XP driver for that PCI gpu for compatibility with older games? One use could be to install PCI geforce card that would support 8-bi paletted textures in those 4 …

Re: VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

IIRC, VGA does 2048x1536 at 85Hz max. (assuming RAMDACs on your card can actually cope with it). It doesn't support 2560 horizontal width, so you don't have to worry about signal quality at 2560x1440. I don't count downsampling/DSR/VSR in above. PS. Unless you thought 1920x1440 instead of 2560x1440 …

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

This thread made me wonder. Is there a good reason why people prefer using detonator 45.23? If I remember correctly nvidia increased the shader performance of FX cards in later driver versions. In reviews detonator 52.16 showed clear shader performance improvement over 4X.XX drivers in FX series …

Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

This thread made me wonder. Is there a good reason why people prefer using detonator 45.23? If I remember correctly nvidia increased the shader performance of FX cards in later driver versions. In reviews detonator 52.16 showed clear shader performance improvement over 4X.XX drivers in FX series …

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