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Radeon HD 3450 running in Win 98?

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First post, by revolstar

Posted on 2023-03-16, 06:04

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Hi, me again. A mate gave me his old AGP Radeon HD 3450 and I was wondering if it would be possible to get it to run under Windows 98? With it being an AGP card rather than PCI-E... So, do you guys know of any ATI (Catalyst or whatever) driver version that would make this gpu work under Win 98?

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Reply 1 of 2, by Duffman

Posted on 2023-03-16, 06:26

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That won't work in Windows 98.

The last Radeon cards to work in Windows 98 are the X800 series.

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Reply 2 of 2, by TrashPanda

Posted on 2023-03-16, 06:50

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revolstar wrote on 2023-03-16, 06:04:

Hi, me again. A mate gave me his old AGP Radeon HD 3450 and I was wondering if it would be possible to get it to run under Windows 98? With it being an AGP card rather than PCI-E... So, do you guys know of any ATI (Catalyst or whatever) driver version that would make this gpu work under Win 98?

Unified shader cards are XP and above only, 98doesnt have the hardware support for them.
For nVidia the Geforce 7000 series cards were the last to support 98, for ATI its the Radeon X800 series anything after these cards is DX10 Unified and wont work even with supposed modded drivers. YMMV with the last two gens of these cards and 98se you will likely need to try a few driver versions to find one that works and is compatible with games.

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