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Fast & Compatible PCI DVI video card for DOS/WIN98

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First post, by dirkmirk

Posted on 2014-08-22, 10:22

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Im possibly looking for a replacement card for my Pentium overdrive 333, at the moment it has a Geforce 6200 and I get the feeling its not great in windows 98SE, I haven't tested that many games but for example it wont run Delta Force.

Is it a case of Drivers?

Cards Im considering.

3DFX 4500/5500 Mac version, flash to PC version (my number one pick but the price is high, looking for other cards at this point in time.)
Matrox G400/450
One of ATIs offerings in the 9 series?

Basically I like having overkill in my systems but only being a 66mhz/333mhz it wont take much to bottleneck the CPU, whats a good choice that will run most games in windows 98 and some of the later dos games?

Reply 1 of 6, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2014-08-22, 10:37

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To clarify, the 6200 doesn't run this game because it's too new / too new driver or because it doesn't have required features?

For a slot 1 machine an AGP Voodoo3 would work nicely. 4500 and 5500 are quite "exotic" cards IMO. Really mostly for playing glide games at higher resolutions and with AA.

Matrox G400/450 with latest drivers is surprisingly good with great image quality, but DVI solves this on Nvidia. And in regards to driver support you really can't go past Nvidia.

I think it all comes down to what games you want to play.

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Reply 2 of 6, by dirkmirk

Posted on 2014-08-22, 10:46

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:
To clarify, the 6200 doesn't run this game because it's too new / too new driver or because it doesn't have required features?

For a slot 1 machine an AGP Voodoo3 would work nicely. 4500 and 5500 are quite "exotic" cards IMO. Really mostly for playing glide games at higher resolutions and with AA.

I suspect the 6200 is too new/drivers too new, the 6200 is what a 2004/5 card and Delta Force is a 98 game, Quake 3 runs fine though at 1600X1200, its not that I don't have a system that wont play that game but I want to try and make this PPRO333 my main all round machine and its restricted to PCI slots, AGP is out.

A bit hard to summarise what im looking to play but probably games from around the late 90s, not too concerned if the cpu cant catch up i'll use a different system but would like good compatibility for this system, Big bonus if it'll play Delta Force as a start.

Reply 3 of 6, by Firtasik

Posted on 2014-08-22, 10:59

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Delta Force works fine with GeForce 7600 GS (ForceWare 94.24) on Windows XP SP3. 😀

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Reply 4 of 6, by tayyare

Posted on 2014-08-22, 11:56

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Having a similar problem at the moment. My system is PIII 866 and I started with FX5200. It refused to work with the first few games I installed (TIE Fighter, X-Wing and X-Wing Alliance), so I decided to fall back into a GeForce4 MX or Geforce2 MX. They are locally and cheaply available.

Just a thought but considering to play mid-late 90s games in a mobo with no AGP socket might be a bit of a wrong decision, especially for a "overkill" minded person..🤣

PS: VGA to DVI (and otherwise) adapters are easily available

Last edited by tayyare on 2014-08-22, 14:04. Edited 1 time in total.

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Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
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Reply 5 of 6, by Tiremaster400

Posted on 2014-08-22, 14:01

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Delta Force also works fine on a Pentium 4 with FX5200 256mb card on Win XP for me at least and also play it on a Pentium 3 1000mhz with Voodoo Banshee on Win 2K.

Reply 6 of 6, by obobskivich

Posted on 2014-08-22, 18:19

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I think there are Radeon 7000s with DVI and PCI, and GeForce FX ofc, and a lot of 3DLabs cards have DVI too.

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