Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-07-24, 18:04:

old school gamer man wrote on 2025-07-24, 17:47:

I have a titan X in my xp box. I wouldn't recommend it. it's kinda buggy in xp. I had a 980ti before hand and it was just as bad. However it's workable and for some it would be perfectly fine.

Yeah, it may depend on one's use case, and also on the system that it's installed in. There's quite a bit of discussion about those cards in this thread: Best WinXP Video Card

Personally, I've been using a GTX 980 Ti with my Ivy Bridge system for a couple of months now, and it's been great. Had a GTX 970 in there for a year and a half before that, and I had no issues with that one either. For reference, I mainly play DX9 and DX8 games under WinXP, with a few rare visits to DX7, but I don't usually go below that.

dx5 and older games can be rather buggy on the 980 but in your case as it would be fine, the system I have my titian x in is a x79 system so more or less the same hardware and for newer games it s grate, granted it is a tick less stable in xp than older cards. I ran into problems with the drivers not loading back up on a reboot once in a blue moon and other funky problems when I had PAE enabled. If you are only dx8 and 9 games and a few 7 games, going to use dos box for dos games and don't mind a funky bug once in a blue moon its a solid pick for a top end XP system. Granted I would say a 950 or 960 would be a better pick as the cards are a lot less hot and power hungry and I don't know of any game that runs on XP that would need a 980ti other than maybe skyrim or crisis with a lot of mods and TBH both those games should be played on vista or newer because of the ram limits on XP if you are going to mod them a lot.

I only put a 980ti and titian in my XP system because I had one and needed the vram for all the mods I have in fallout NV, I swapped them out for a pair of 580s so I could play older DX better. also I tend to only use my PC in the winter sooo it doubles as a heater 🤣

old school gamer man wrote on 2025-07-25, 15:19:

I don't know of any game that runs on XP that would need a 980ti other than maybe skyrim or crisis with a lot of mods and TBH both those games should be played on vista or newer because of the ram limits on XP if you are going to mod them a lot.

Yeah, for running WinXP games normally, that card is total overkill. But I like to play them at either 1600x1200 or 1920x1200 (if widescreen is supported) while forcing 8xSGSSAA on top of that. For reference, SGSSAA is a high quality form of anti aliasing, but it's also very demanding. Even my 980 Ti can't run some games from 2005 and later at 8x, so I have to take it down to "just" 4x.

That's just my personal preference though. Other people likely won't bother with that amount of anti aliasing, or they will use a CRT monitor where it isn't that important.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-07-25, 15:45:

old school gamer man wrote on 2025-07-25, 15:19:

I don't know of any game that runs on XP that would need a 980ti other than maybe skyrim or crisis with a lot of mods and TBH both those games should be played on vista or newer because of the ram limits on XP if you are going to mod them a lot.

Yeah, for running WinXP games normally, that card is total overkill. But I like to play them at either 1600x1200 or 1920x1200 (if widescreen is supported) while forcing 8xSGSSAA on top of that. For reference, SGSSAA is a high quality form of anti aliasing, but it's also very demanding. Even my 980 Ti can't run some games from 2005 and later at 8x, so I have to take it down to "just" 4x.

That's just my personal preference though. Other people likely won't bother with that amount of anti aliasing, or they will use a CRT monitor where it isn't that important.

hmm I game at 1600x1200and sometimes 2048x1536 and never ran anything anything that taxed my titian x even with maxed SGSSAA. what games are you playing that tax the card?

old school gamer man wrote on 2025-07-25, 16:19:

hmm I game at 1600x1200and sometimes 2048x1536 and never ran anything anything that taxed my titian x even with maxed SGSSAA. what games are you playing that tax the card?

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time are two such games. To clarify, they don't max out the card during every single scene. In fact, it happens very rarely, mainly when lots of alpha effects like smoke or fire are on the screen. But it's annoying enough that I notice it during normal gameplay.

My go to example is the final battle against the Vizier in Sands of Time. He stands behind some transparent curtains and casts a spell which uses a flashy visual effect. At that moment, performance briefly drops below 60 FPS on my GTX 980 Ti, while GPU utilization spikes to 100% for a few seconds. This is at 1600x1200 with 8xSGSSAA and 16xAF (high quality) forced on top.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-07-25, 16:29:

old school gamer man wrote on 2025-07-25, 16:19:

hmm I game at 1600x1200and sometimes 2048x1536 and never ran anything anything that taxed my titian x even with maxed SGSSAA. what games are you playing that tax the card?

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time are two such games. To clarify, they don't max out the card during every single scene. In fact, it happens very rarely, mainly when lots of alpha effects like smoke or fire are on the screen. But it's annoying enough that I notice it during normal gameplay.

My go to example is the final battle against the Vizier in Sands of Time. He stands behind some transparent curtains and casts a spell which uses a flashy visual effect. At that moment, performance briefly drops below 60 FPS on my GTX 980 Ti, while GPU utilization spikes to 100% for a few seconds. This is at 1600x1200 with 8xSGSSAA and 16xAF (high quality) forced on top.

those sound more like bugs than performance problems, I'll have to give those games a try and see whats its all about.