Im 99% sure that there are a bunch of recent threads on this subject. But from what I understand a Geforce 480 was popular, a Geforce 8800G is a good option or a 9800, Geforce 280, there are alot of options.

Not sure of the fastest, but I run a GTX 460, it totally walked anything XP wanted to do with it and is still holding its own pretty well under Windows 7 even in new titles. Therefore you can probably cut the cost a little.

I never liked the 8000 series personally and found them all problematic, the 9000 series fixed that.

I think ATI supported XP for a long time, so cards like the 5770 probably worked under that OS and were fairly fast, along with the 58xx and 59xx I think. I don't know much about their line-up though as they had compatibility issues with some software I run that have never been fixed, not something you're likely to run into as this was a fairly specific usage case.

So yeah, once you get to the middle of the GTX 400 series it seems like you're topping out DX9 stuff anyway, it is even possible later cards won't be as fast as the hardware and drivers could be better optimized for DX10/11/12 which you wouldn't be running under XP anyway. Be warned, these things drink quite a lot of power.

A load of XP related topics lately eh?

There is a bunch of choices. Nvidia 285 or a 460 like HighTreason says. Those usually work great of course. Overpowering anything from the late dx8 and 9 era, and perform great as well in the DX10 era. Only thing you may run into a few issues with a few games from the earlier dx9 era, but nothing a mod or a fix couldn't help with.

Also you might want to make that Core 2 Duo closer to 3ghz. 2.1 wont cut it for a lot of the games in that era.

Bunch of other threads on this, please use the search functionality.

To answer the topic, Geforce GTX 780 TI is the fastest WinXP supported card, but it's completely overpowered for DX9 games. Even a GTX 480 runs games like Batman Arkham Asylum with full PhysX mode and everything else set to max gives you 60 fps. But if you want a dual boot X58 system (or equiviliant), the 780ti also gives excellent performance newer DX10, 11 and 12 games in Win7/10.

Easy, 980ti. http://midlifegamers.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2504

Is a radeon 5970 good? If not, any recommendation on the 6xxx and 7xxx series. Wow, a 980Ti is too overkill

awgamer wrote:

Easy, 980ti. http://midlifegamers.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2504

No official support, requires driver modding, but yeah, seems to work according to that link.

Im sure a Radeon 5970 would be fine. Though AMD usually gives me troubles when playing older games so i don't know how good that will go.

I use a 7900 GT(Could also use a 7900 GTX) in my Windows XP computer with a P4 3ghz. Great compatibly and enough power for 60+ framerate in games with 1024x768 res. But any game around 2006/7 in any resolution above the 720p range will go under 60fps quickly. If you are looking for overpowering those XP era games then go with the 5970 or a Nvidia 285/460.

Frame rating showed from inception that crossfire has never worked, runt frames, possibly sorta fixed, hit and miss?, for 7xxx and later cards, but pre 7xxx.. been awhile since I've looked up news about it. Looking over past reviews, seems to me a 770gtx/7970/280x/ocd7950 is a good match for an xp setup meant for gaming up to 09, keeping minimum frame rate high. My price target would be $100-150 from deals seen on craigslist, which, though low compared to what the market is usually trying to get for them, it's appropriate when one can get a 290/290x for $200/250.

Is a 7770 or 7790 good? Also, for the CPU I may be using a e8600. Is there even a list of compatible xp cards for both and and nvidia?

comteck123 wrote:

Is a 7770 or 7790 good? Also, for the CPU I may be using a e8600. Is there even a list of compatible xp cards for both and and nvidia?

It depends on where you partition your xp range, stop at introduction of vista or at introduction of 7, if your xp rig is just for 01-06(vista,) perhaps, but if 01-09(7,) I'd go for stronger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_gra … rocessing_units
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_ … rocessing_units

Far Cry 3 can be played on High settings at 720p with a strong dual core and a HD7750 in my experience, as a point of reference.

How about a 7970? Is it supported? If not, either maybe a 7770 or 7790

vetz wrote:

awgamer wrote:

Easy, 980ti. http://midlifegamers.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2504

No official support, requires driver modding, but yeah, seems to work according to that link.

Officially nvidia has XP drivers up to the GTX 960.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Which is why it's trivial to mod them for the 980ti.

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread … P-%28x86-x64%29

wait why would anyone add a 980 Ti to XP, a 6gb card makes no sense under XP

Allows you to dual/multi boot &/or vm with passthrough to handle xp 7 10 with one system. vm passthrough does up to 98% of native performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37D2bRsthfI which allows for having linux as your host system and just vm for windows yet still get top end performance.