The 6000 series got some hardware changes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101028120959/ht … icles.x/19844/2

Also I don't know anything about the GOG release of Republic Commando. But the CD release would work with DGVoodoo2 now. It's also possible the community came up with a workaround.

IIRC bumps still crashed Radeon HD6.

swaaye wrote:

The 6000 series got some hardware changes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101028120959/ht … icles.x/19844/2

Also I don't know anything about the GOG release of Republic Commando. But the CD release would work with DGVoodoo2 now. It's also possible the community came up with a workaround.

> Demers relayed to us the dismay that he and his team had when they realized this problem made it into Cypress hardware.

I bet not as much dismay as the people who bought a HD 5 series 😵

It think the the X1000 series cards might have texture filtering advantages over the HD 2000-5000 cards.

I really like the quality and performance of the 5850 in general . I am thinking of keeping a second XP-gen system to house a GTX5xx for edge cases like Source games or laaate DX8 games that are too new to run on my FX5950/P4 system.

Include OpenGL games like KOTOR 1 and 2. The 5850 might not be able to run those with all the effects working. ATI and OpenGL..... I also remember needing to rename rtcw.exe to quake3.exe for Return to Castle Wolfenstein to run at > 30fps on a Mobility 5870.

Thanks swaaye. I thought the XP generation of games was the simplest to satisfy...but not the case. I wonder if there are any games from say the Vista/7 eras that won't run well on a modern PC due to hardware support for parts of DX9/DX10. I tend to assume if it came out in 2007+ it will run on a modern PC without any really difficult problems.

So I was able to reproduce the grey circle discontinuity and Rebel Commando crashed out when starting a mission. Oh well, I'll be a gtx xp man until my next xp build I guess.