What Video Card is the best for older games!

[james007]

I would you to help me with this question. I want to buy a new Video card that would allow me to still play with the older games.

Most of the newer video cards do not support the older games. I install a G6200 Video card and have been unable to play with EAW and Silent Hunter 1.

I still like those older programs. Maybe there is a card out there that will allow me to upgrade my PC video card and still use this older simulators.

Your help will be appreciated


James007

[ctjoyce]

Any video card will work. I cant fathem why a new card wouldn't let you play older games.

Cheers
Cameron

[Fozzer]

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Paul... ...!

[james007]

Because I needed help in this matter. I did not know wish forum would be more appropiate or who are the posters who would know more about this kind of problem. Thank you for your advise. I highly appreciate it.





James007

[ctjoyce]

So what exactly is the problem? Cus I've been able to play older games on my X800XL just fine, and its three times the card that the 6200 is. I think that your having a driver issue.

Cheers
Cameron

[Woodlouse2002]

..an identical query on two different Forums.... ....!

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Paul... ...!

It's called the scatter gun effect. Bound to hit on the right answer eventually.




As for the problem, any card should work. Maybe you have the screen resolutions set up wrong or something.

I'll see if I can get EAW working on my comp (with a geforce 6600gt) and tell you the results.

[Woodlouse2002]

Tried EAW. Didn't work. Can't be sure though whether it's to do with my system specs or the fact that the disk is most likely buggered.

[richardd43]

Am not familiar with EAW but could it possible need an older OS to run.

[Mushroom_Farmer]

Am not familiar with EAW but could it possible need an older OS to run.

It runs great on Windows 98se.  ;D According to MobyGames the game itself was released October '98.
I would think with today's large drives it might be worth running more than one OS on separate partitions or even a dual boot/dual drive for older programs/games. But remember Win9x is FAT16/32 and XP can be NTFS of FAT32. Don't forget that FAT32 also has a HDD size barrier.

[kipman725]

fat32's size barrier is alot larger than the 30 odd gig that is allowed in the windows xp setup.  This limit was put there to convince people to use NTFS instead of fat32  :


no idea what EAW is but silent hunter 1 runs best in a dos enviroment and is very pickey about running inside a dos box inside xp.

[Woodlouse2002]

EAW is European Air War. And in my opinion probably the most realistic combat flight sim there has been.

[Mushroom_Farmer]

[quote]fat32's size barrier is alot larger than the 30 odd gig that is allowed in the windows xp setup.

[Fozzer]

Mushroom's just reminded me re; possible Operating System problems in older games....

I have Win '98SE on a second 20Gb hard drive, which also contains many of my "older" games, and they work fine, (occasionally having to change Graphics Cards over to my 3DFX Voodoo cards if there are graphical problems).

Whenever I want to play some old "stuff" I just go into my Bios and swop over drives, making my second hard drive the first one to boot up with Win '98 SE....
It works a treat... ...!
By the way, I have 768 Mb of DDR memory, and Win '98SE recognises it OK...!

Cheers all... ...!

Paul.... ...!