No experience, it does appear that Nvidia provides XP and XP 64bit drivers for the Quadro FX5800. Gaming performance might absolutely suck tho. I still want to try it someday.

BinaryDemon wrote on 2022-06-01, 14:53:

No experience, it does appear that Nvidia provides XP and XP 64bit drivers for the Quadro FX5800. Gaming performance might absolutely suck tho. I still want to try it someday.

Actually gaming performance is just fine.
Possibly even the Quadro drivers eventually got the same gaming improvements as the GTX's did.
The Quadros are usually clocked lower then the GTX equivalents, but they overclock like crazy.
And the extra VRAM seems to help on more demanding titles.

Also the Quadros seems to age better then the GTX variants.
I mean I've seen any number of dead/faulty 260/280 and 285's.
But the Quadros seems to work just fine.

Pics show one of my FX 5800's.
GPU frequency is limited by temperature 🤣, been meaning to watercool it someday.
And mem clock was limited by the o'c slider in MSI afterburner.

RandomStranger wrote on 2022-05-31, 14:07:

Because PAE is disabled by default in XP-32 and most people don't mess with that.

But if you succeed in messing with that, you can utilize full 4GB or RAM (instead of ~3.5 GB) or more (up to 16 GB i believe) on a 32-bit XP.
Single process is still limited to (usually) 2 GB limit.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win3 … gigabyte-tuning

Still need to try this with newer builds of Dark Mod on XP and certain maps.

If you do the 1366 rig, it should perform like mine, a little slower but still.