Lylat1an wrote on 2024-04-19, 03:54:
leileilol wrote on 2024-04-19, 03:38:
The "3.1 / 6.22 drivers" throws a wrench into this. They were dead long before AGP.
Might any AGP 3.3v cards simply display video properly without drivers DOS/3.1?
(Edited original post to clarify that I only need 1920x1080 in Windows 98SE)
You don't need drivers for DOS games and demoscrne demos (320x200 256 color ones) to work, but you will hit limitations/issues on newer cards with things like wrong aspect ratio (which your monitor might be able to compensate for), soft/blurry forced scaling on Nvidia cards if using DVI, complete incompatibilities (on Radeon cards, especially). 70Hz mode being run at 60Hz and either reducing apparent motion smoothness or even slowing down audio to match (Second Reality). This last one can be addressed with a custom programmed EDID emulator.
The above are just off the top of my head and I can share some links to forum discussions on them if you are interested.
For Windows 3.1, on newer cards without drivers you will get 640x480 in 16 colors. The link I shared in my previous post provides an alternative driver ( I believe there may be others) that should allow 256 colors in higher resolutions on cards with VESA VBE support when using Windows 3.1, which most if not all of newer cards you might consider have (it is buggy in some of them, though).