LEAKED WINXP VIPER2 DRIVERS?

[Alex]

i have viper2 and am wary about installing winxp cuz no decent drivers... win2k ones suck

anyone know where to get leaked ones?

 

[nightowl]

franguinho, you're not the only one. I would like to install XP on a system at home that has a Viper II in it but I cannot find any XP drivers other than the ones MS included.

 

[MoleX]

when i had my viper 2 I used the W2K drivers, no "good" games worked and TV-out did not work, but everything eles was ok

My advice sell the card on FS/FT(~$35) forum get yourself a GF2 for around ~80$

MoleX

 

[Adul]

GF2 from visiontek is 65 bucks at newegg. Granted it is clocked slower but still better then a viper 2 for gaming.

 

[sandorski]

Yea, I just replaced a Viper 2 with a GeForce2 MX200(see Spare Partsenstein). It's time to replace those cards, you can get much better these days for the price of a sound card.

BTW, mentioning Viper2 drivers and suck in the same sentence, doesn't require OS info. 😀

 

[Alex]

hmm damn

upgrading is not an option...

 

[sandorski]

Well a quick look through some old bookmarks turned up dead links and even a former Savage website whose addy is now used for porn! 😱 Even Diamond's website doesn't even mention WinXP and the Viper2 together. This is a shot in the dark, but try posting your question here, maybe someone there can help or give you some info.

 

[Darkhawk28]

<< i have viper2 and am wary about installing winxp cuz no decent drivers... win2k ones suck

anyone know where to get leaked ones? >>




Here you go Franster ... don't know if they work, but I feel your pain with the Viper II, had one for a while and Diamond's driver support sucks. Try them out and tell me if they work... I've since moved on to Geforce3 pleasure. 🙂

Good luck to you.

Here are the Leaked XP Savage 2000 drivers.

 

[vss1980]

Yep, those are the leaked drivers, and from experience I can tell you that there is no OpenGL support.

Direct3D will work pretty ok actually (almost shocking considering they are very leaked/tweaked/beta drivers).
I myself switched the card for a Leadtek Geforce DDR card (dont worry guys got it soooo cheap I couldn't resist) and haven't looked back.

A Geforce2 MX400 will pretty much beat it in every department (except mip-mapping - S3 can achieve using normal Bilinear/Trilinear mip-mapping what nvidia needs anisotropic filtering for) or a cheap Geforce2 based card (ie. GTS/Pro/Ti) for those on a budget. Those who aren't on a budget would have upgraded long ago 🙂