Nuvyi, If you are going to build a win xp system, you will have to install a video card that have supported drivers for win xp. This will limit you to a 780ti or even 980ti (not sure about that one) or even a R290. Anything newer the that, you cannot run on windows xp. For retro compatibility, yes, …

Thank you all! Very interesting to hear various viewpoints. I wasn't pretty clear. I had the idea to build a computer on Windows XP with EAX sound card, but using a more modern (not authentic) video card, and run those problematic pre DX9 games using wrappers. So, can those wrappers emulate all …

Hey! AFAIK, formerly games like Splinter Sell could only be played on real hardware, but I was surprised when I saw a video of how shadows and lighting can work properly on any video card thanks to dgVoodoo. My question is does it make sense to chase real hardware if I don't care about authenticity? …

Quadro support everything GeForce can, except SLI on some models. Regular ForceWare works with Quadros just fine. Although, that's just like what? 8800GT equivalent with DX11 features? While capable, it won't show decent performance with PhysX. There is a list of Quadro cards that support PhysX, …

Has anyone had experience with Quadro cards in old games (Windows XP and 7 era)? Is there a difference between the drivers for the Quadro and the equivalent on the Geforce? I am considering the K2000 model, but afaik it doesn't support PhysX. I wonder if there is any way to add support? Modify the …

The FX cards need slightly newer drivers than the GeForce 4, and a few games like NFS4 and Shogo don't like that. There are workarounds for this, but you basically need to juggle a couple of different driver versions depending on which game you want to play. Overall, compatibility is a little bit …

GeForce 4 Ti4200 paired with a Voodoo 2 for maximum compatibility. Note that 3DFX cards are extremely overpriced at this time, so I wouldn't recommend buying one unless you can get a really good deal. Thanks! I'm not even considering Voodoo because of the prices. I'm curious why Gf 4 Ti over FX …

Hi. Is it possible to emulate 8-bit paletted textures and table fog using wrappers?

I looked here, even GeForce 4 or some FX cards may show something wrong. In addition, you need to install certain drivers. GeForce 6 can show fog, but it can't show 8-bit textures, the same for some ATI cards. Can you give a recommendation, which card to choose after all? Is it possible to fix 8-bit …

Thank you for your recommendation. I'm also considering the option with a Shuttle computer, some look pretty good, what do you think? Shuttle XPCs are decent and indeed very small. I also have an older one with an Athlon 64 3400+ and AGP, but they all have proprietary motherboards and PSUs. If they …

AsRock and Biostar has some very tiny uATX boards with exactly one PCI-e 16x and PCI-e 1x slot. Some examples are the: AsRock H61M-VG3 Biostar H61MHV2 Biostar H61MLV3 These still have XP drivers and support Sandy and Ivy Bridge CPUs. The expansion slots allow one graphics card and one sound card, …

Hi! I'm looking for a small computer, mostly for Windows XP. Can you recommend what options there are with at least one PCI (for sound card) and one PCIe (video) slots?

If you want to play dosgames from 1993 upwards go and get a 486 or a slow pentium with a great and compatible PCI gfx-card and ISA soundcard. If you want to play win9x games from 1996 upwards go and get a Pentium 2 or higher with a decent 3d-accelerator like voodoo3 or matrox g400 nvidia TNT2/GF …

None will be very good , but here is a list : https://global.shuttle.com/products/productsDetail?productId=506 https://global.shuttle.com/products/productsSpec?productId=85 Has similar or better performance to 478 P4 but runs cooler (it's a small case) with a pci ESS Solo 1 (TDMA) and a agp single …

Doom1 can be played in Win9x Dosfullscreen. no Problem. It could be better played with a source-port directly in Windows. If you talk Dos would that mean FM-Music and or Roland sound ? That would be another thing to consider. To be honest, I rather meant the period that begins with 1993 ( …

Dos ? What Dosgames are you interested in ? There are P4-Shuttle machines that accept the P4 1.6 38Watt-TDP, which is buy far the coolest solution. (Some mobile Athlons will work too but have some issues while been not corretly deteced by the shuttle bios,) There are no specific games, but it would …

Hi. I was interested in the idea of getting a retro computer in a small case. https://global.shuttle.com/products/archives Which of these models is more suitable for Windows 98 and DOS? Can I change the processor speed on socket 478 with a Pentium 4 or Celeron processor for example? And if you put …

Hi there! Does HP Thin Client T5520 model fit for DOS and Win98 gaming? According this datasheet https://www.vecmar.com/pdf/hp/HPt5520.pdf it has 800mhz processor and 128 Mb memory. Will sound work on DOS? Plus I heard you can make good sound with Raspberry Pi, will this work or there are better …