Reply 47620 of 53198, by Ozzuneoj
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danieljm wrote on 2023-01-17, 07:37:IMG_0332.jpeg
Managed to get this for $20. Feeling very lucky. Unfortunately I don't have a CPU/Motherboard powerful enough to take full advantage of it. 😀
Whatever you do, don't try to put it into an Nforce 3 Ultra board and expect to install anything newer than Windows XP. I can't remember the details, but there is some kind of issue with the AGP drivers for that chipset. I believe none were officially released and any workarounds to force AGP to work are not compatible with ATI cards. I ran into this trying to get that exact same model of card working in a PC I have. There is, sadly, no work around.
Because of this, I'd suggest trying to find either a late VIA or Intel based AGP board. My reasoning for this is: Why use one of the fastest AGP cards ever made if you're limited to Windows XP? There are newer\better PCI-E cards that work fine in XP if you want an overkill XP system. Seems like more fun to try to see what kind of "modern" software you can get to run on the fastest AGP system you can build. Any game that doesn't require a card to support higher than DX10.1 should theoretically work. 😀
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.