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Will a 9600gt/9800gt work with Windows 2000?

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brett42

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I'm thinking about upgrading to a 22" monitor in the next couple of months, and I was planning on getting a 4830 to go with it, but it turns out that the drivers are completely incompatible with Windows 2000. I'm not planning on upgrading from win2k until a year or so after Windows 7 comes out, so I'd like to know if anyone has been successful running a 9600 or 9800 series on win2k.

I know that the driver download site doesn't list win2k for newer cards, but I'm running the XP version of the drivers for my 8600gt without problems, and I don't really care if the official support is there as long as it works. So, has anyone seen recent nVidia cards running on win2k? If not, how about 3870s or 4670s?
 
What version of GeForce drivers are you using with your 8600GT? Unfortunately the latest drivers at nVidia don't list Win2000 for compatibility but you could try the WinXP 32-bit driver & see if your 8600GT still works. If it does, you're gtg.
 
My guess is you can use the official XP drivers and they'll work fine. No idea though-- why buy an expensive gfx card if you're not planning on upgrading til after Win 7 comes out? Your card might be obsolete before you even get a chance to use it.
 
Most games work on win2k with a little bit of tweaking. Most Valve stuff works out of the box, and recently I got Fallout 3 to work after copying over some dlls. win2kgaming.site90.com is a really good resource. I'd rather spend the 15 minutes copying over dlls than the $86 for a new operating system that doesn't really add any features I need.
 
Originally posted by: brett42
Well, if anyone else is in the same situation, this guy wasn't able to run a 3850 in win2k, but was able to run a 9600gt.
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If you read the thread you linked to, the very last post is:

"Latest Omega works fine for me in W2K and R3850. 3D and 2D works perfectly"

The R3850 is one generation behind, however. The Omega driver sight hasn't been updated for a while, and the last update was before the HD4830 came out, so the 9600GT might be the way to go for now.
 
I didn't even know PCI-Express was supported by Win2k. You must be running some fairly new hardware, I assume. What motherboard are you using?

 
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