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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
May 20, 2025, 10:08 PM
@subroutine @manawyrm Honestly, I'm pretty sure with the OneCoreAPI and all updates from LegacyUpdate installed, you could daily an XP install!
This system is, driver-wise, fully supported, since 4th Gen Intel Core i/Xeon E3 v2 platforms still had drivers for the chipset available! Granted, it's not *modern* modern, but still pleeenty fast and usable. I do want to try a PAE patch to allow more RAM to be usable even on 32bit Windows, but I've heard it can be quite unstable. Hmm...
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Manawyrmmanawyrm@chaos.social
May 20, 2025, 10:13 PM
@snep @subroutine I have the latest Nvidia GTX GPU that was supported on XP and I also have a big 16core Ryzen CPU on a mainboard with CSM support. One day I‘ll need to try and get this going, but it‘s very, very far back on my project list…
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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
May 21, 2025, 5:33 AM
@manawyrm @subroutine Understandable!
The last supported GTX is probably something in the 9xx line of cards, right? Or was there ever a driver for GTX 10xx cards?
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Manawyrmmanawyrm@chaos.social
May 21, 2025, 9:02 AM
@snep @subroutine GTX7xx series is the last one
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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
May 21, 2025, 4:52 PM
@manawyrm Ohh interesting, just had a peek at NVIDIAs drivers page, I was thinking 9xx since NVIDIA is offering a driver for XP for the GTX950 and GTX960, but /not/ the GTX970 or higher, even though they're the same GPU architecture generation. Weird :neocat_think:
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Manawyrmmanawyrm@chaos.social
May 21, 2025, 4:56 PM
@snep iiiinteresting! I've tried that with the 980 (because I have one here)...
Now I _really_ want to try that and see if the driver really doesn't work.
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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
May 21, 2025, 5:00 PM
@manawyrm Apparently it takes a few INF file edits to include the 970's and up device IDs in the driver package, but according to The Internet™, it should then work and be fully supported! If you do end up testing it out, let me know how well it worked :3
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Mara Saphira, crush of too many :therian: - maybe 40c3littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network
May 20, 2025, 11:20 PM
@snep @subroutine @manawyrm but it already says to have PAE enabled?
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Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
May 21, 2025, 5:37 AM
@littlefox Yup, but even with that, it still can only address 3.4 GiB of RAM out of the box! Thus, the few existing PAE patches come into play to allow up to 128 GiB of usable memory, even if individual applications are still limited to 3.4 GiB
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