think there might be hacked drivers for win 98? i know there area number of unofficial drivers for 98 on later hardware for other stuff.
Unfortunately no. The last official drivers for Windows 9x (Catalyst 6.2) supported Radeon through 9800 with beta support for up to the X800. Unlike with the NVIDIA cards, I've never heard of anyone having luck with modified Catalyst INFs.
Your best bet (if you can't change cards), is to use the generic VBEMP 9x drivers. You'll at least get rudimentary DirectDraw support so things shouldn't be too painful.
I hate to say it but back in the day, this card was super poorly supported. The HD series of cards did not get very stable software in AGP configuration. My friend got the same HD2600 (HIS) new back in the day and it ran so badly back then he thought it was the card that was defective. Turned out it was the drivers. You might find more luck trying some older Catalyst drivers. I remember my old X800 Sapphire AGP card was picky and I had to use I think v6.12 to work correctly IIRC...
well i got a 128 mb FX5200 with intel cpu cooler attached to it.
Looks like it can either be old school or new school but, not both. the agp hd2600 works fine under 7.
I have a HIS AGP HD2600 and I think there are no good rivers for the HDMI sound when using an AMD motherboard under Xp. Seems to work ok on an Intel P4 board (not using the drivers on the original CD). Pretty sure you needed specific AGP drivers for that card Think mine are XP_8.501 .
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A friend of mine bought a HD2600 AGP and tried it on several computers of his (all Socket A) and later borrowed a s939 board from me to install Windows on there and try his card out.
And whatever he tried, which drivers he used, it all didn't matter, he just could not get it to work!
After solving some problems, he always met a brick wall when, after having installed the Sapphire drivers with AGP fix, he got a "infinite loop" BSoD which only would be fixed by uninstalling the driver.
He got the exact same results with my own HD2600 AGP.
Strangely my HD4670 AGP worked just fine on my own Athlon XP and so does his AGP HD4670 on his own Athlon XP. Too bad I misplaced it's driver disk, no idea if those drivers would work with the HD2600 anyway.
I used to have a X800XL AGP. That was one of the first cards to use ATI's AGP bridge. I had a lot of problems with that card. I think it was Catalyst 7.x that had about 6 months of broken D3D with AGP cards.
They really had pathetic driver support for cards using the ATI Rialto AGP bridge chip. IIRC with the DX10 AGP boards they were running a separate driver branch just for AGP cards for awhile, which were labeled as hotfix drivers or some such.
NEVER use the OEM or DISC drivers, AMD has special legacy AGP Drivers for the HD series, which i what i used on my P4 board. the problem is the last drives amd released for ALL HD series is missing some important bits so you get KBD sync error after booting (not critical) and it's missing open CL, as i found out when trying to to do some coin mining.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop … ws%207%20-%2032
EDIT the AGP version seems to use version 12 which i never remember having trouble with.
wrote:I used to have a X800XL AGP. That was one of the first cards to use ATI's AGP bridge. I had a lot of problems with that card. I think it was Catalyst 7.x that had about 6 months of broken D3D with AGP cards.
They really had pathetic driver support for cards using the ATI Rialto AGP bridge chip. IIRC with the DX10 AGP boards they were running a separate driver branch just for AGP cards for awhile, which were labeled as hotfix drivers or some such.
And Ati continued to have problems with drivers for AGP cards right up to the end with the HD3850 and HD4670. It was a long time before they finally pushed out a stable driver for those.
You know what if i had a PCI retro video card and a PS2 to USB and a KVM switch i bet i could dual/tri boot windows 98,windows 7 and lubuntu. 98 could use the the retro card and the newer OS could use the newer card and if i so wished, the old card fora second monitor.
wrote:NEVER use the OEM or DISC drivers, AMD has special legacy AGP Drivers for the HD series, which i what i used on my P4 board. the problem is the last drives amd released for ALL HD series is missing some important bits so you get KBD sync error after booting (not critical) and it's missing open CL, as i found out when trying to to do some coin mining.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop … ws%207%20-%2032
EDIT the AGP version seems to use version 12 which i never remember having trouble with.
Cheers for the link! 😁
We both downloaded the XP variant of that driver and my friend has finally gotten his HD2600 AGP to work 😀
And I finally found my HD4670 AGP driver disk again 😁
*Censored* AMD. They forgot to include my HD2600 Pro Agp (V_id 1002, P_id 9587) in the .inf...
Let's test this release, maybe AMD have massacred some of Catalyst crew and have hired someone with coding skills...
Well, Hype: the Time quest + nGlide - no inventory glitch. So - at least this error was fixed. Oh, goody, AMD KNOW how to fix something at last!!!
Old DX games are still broken (CART Precision Racing as the example).
Old 16-bit OGL games are still broken (GLQuake as the example).
Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).
wrote:And I finally found my HD4670 AGP driver disk again 😁
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wrote:And I finally found my HD4670 AGP driver disk again 😁
🤣!
wrote:*Censored* AMD. They forgot to include my HD2600 Pro Agp (V_id 1002, P_id 9587) in the .inf... […]
*Censored* AMD. They forgot to include my HD2600 Pro Agp (V_id 1002, P_id 9587) in the .inf...
Let's test this release, maybe AMD have massacred some of Catalyst crew and have hired someone with coding skills...
Well, Hype: the Time quest + nGlide - no inventory glitch. So - at least this error was fixed. Oh, goody, AMD KNOW how to fix something at last!!!
Old DX games are still broken (CART Precision Racing as the example).
Old 16-bit OGL games are still broken (GLQuake as the example).
I should still have the HD2600 Pro AGP driver disk somewhere...should I upload it? 😀
Wasn't there a 3rd party driver for ATi cards back in the day? I am pretty sure there was but I should think support stopped after Vista.
Possibly Omega drivers which was had who lines/series of after market drivers for all sorts of hardware.
This is why I am glad that I didn't buy this card although a few times I almost did. There is a way to get the FX series running under Vista and Win 7 32 using modded drivers.
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
wrote:This is why I am glad that I didn't buy this card although a few times I almost did. There is a way to get the FX series running under Vista and Win 7 32 using modded drivers.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop … ws%207%20-%2032
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop … ws%207%20-%2064
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop … 0Vista%20-%2032
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop … 0Vista%20-%2064
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop … erOnServer=true
The only unsupported OS is windows98 and probably Linux and OSX.
