Fine. How about leaving Windows XP with a Core 2 Duo but shifting the time interval to 1995–2006? Which cards will be more compatible? I'd rather have a green one.

RandomStranger wrote on 2023-02-13, 08:17: You can't cover a 12 year long time period with adequate performance on the tail end and perfect compatibility of it's earlier parts That's so unfortunate. I really wanted to have everything on one pc.

I don't have crysis to confirm actual functioning, but an asrock g31 mainboard coupled with an nVidia GT9600 and a core2duo E86oo + 2gb ram makes for a nice year 2009 machine. EDIT: it may be noted that winXP wasn't actually discontinued until 2014 and i can confirm that sandybridge drivers exist …

the Windows XP era starting around 1998 and ending in 2010. No, XP came out 2001 and that era ended in 2007 with Vista. 98-2001 was still the 9x era, and Crysis is in the Vista+ era. Fallout 1 is dos/9x if you want to be period-correct (but is patchable for modern systems). Your chosen specs would …

Hi! I came across this forum not so long ago, and it would be wonderful if someone would give advice. I got interested in the idea of a retro PC that would basically cover the Windows XP era starting around 1998 and ending in 2010. The idea is to get a Core 2Quad or Core 2Duo processor, 4 GB RAM and …