Valvados

Interested in getting the Vista EX Kernel installed, I don't have it and I'm testing 2022 games on Vista x64, a couple of them have thrown an error KERNEL32dll.

I've actually decided to make that my vista rig but I can do a Vista install on it as is with the 1070 on a spare drive until I swap it out of my main rig which I've decided to swap out too i5 6600k with a m.2 gigabyte matx and matching kingston ram, sometime in the future. Optiplex I think I'll keep as the arcade because the i5 is slightly better for gaming than the 8320. Also had two 560ti auctions canceled on me so whenever I move the rig over the vista rig will end up with a 650ti now it looks like. Which is great because I can mess around with different drivers figuring out what's best for the old games I plan on running on it, Turok 08' will be one of em that I feel screws up modern rigs installs. 6xx was the last to support 310 drivers which closely match the older physx drivers that screw up modern nvidia environments.

Posted a thread after searching, ended up finding this thread while trying to find board chipsets with drivers on the sites for Vista. As far as I can tell all Ivy Bridge dell boards that come out of their rigs don't have Vista drivers on their support site. All of the X79 Ivy boards I checked seem to have full Vista support from the typical vendors for building your own PCs, I assume most boards in between here and Core 2 Duo's later socket 775 boards will also have Vista drivers, although I have a strong opinion based on what I remember back in the day that you want drivers that were actually built for stable Vista I think boards with drivers dated June 2009 or later would be a lot more stable than drivers that were made for Vista and then never updated (asrock Dual-VSTA). Good way to find them is with part picker hit Ivy Bridge CPU. Then go into the motherboard section and it'll have most of the motherboards that were compatible and inputted into the site. These things unfortunately don't seem to be cheap I think buying a Sandy Bridge Optiplex is the best bet at the moment for a reasonably priced and well performing Vista rig. Or of course AMD bulldozer board with Vista drivers on it's site. I realize the 2017 Ryzen are confirmed working but it's kind of a scary thought to me personally plunking down that much cash for something without chipset drivers. It would definitely be sweet though seeing how it runs on higher speed ddr4 though. Ironically the best priced boards I could find were the 970M Pro3 if you want custom built pc uefi or the Optiplex's with sandy bridge cpu compatibility. Ironic because I already obtained a optiplex 790 free from my sister and the 970M Pro3 which I had 8.1 and now 10 on for the last 5 years or so. Looks like that'll be my Vista PC's board at some point in the future if I upgrade my main rig.

Anyone who regularly uses Vista have motherboard recommendations? Board's I have that might be relevant; Asrock 970m Pro3 (AM3+) - specs 16gb at 1600 kingston, gtx 1070 oc, fx8320. WD blue 1tb storage, Kingston 120g os. Asrock Dual-VSTA (socket 775)- Had bad compatibility with 7 and Vista back in the day when those OSes were fresh, haven't done anything intensive with it lately but it's what I currently have Vista x64 installed on. Beta bios, e7600 cpu, 3.4gb detected ddr2 running at 633mhz. Have a gtx 560 ti ordered on the way for whatever vista rig I end up going with. Optiplex 790 (LGA1155)- Not sure on the specific version but it's looks like a standard matx mobo with normal power connectors. (building an arcade cabinet out of this has a i5-2500s, 8gb ddr3, GTX 570 direct CUII.).

I have a Alfa N long range with atheros AR9271 chipset and I can't get it installed on windows 98se. I also have a ralink 3070 i believe or else its 2070 and it doesnt work eithier. If I could get one of these to work then I wont have to install Linux LXLE which I am in the process of downloading at the moment. With the help of this forum though I was able to revive a Compaq Presario 1200 with 312mb ram which had xpsp3/msword2k3 and the hdd was full wouldn't move. Very slugginh Now running good and a lot of the 2008-11 programs on 98se and Quake III arena, Warcraft III but I guess I'm going to have to dual boot Linux LXLE to get internet on this thing. I guess both of those games work on Linux but not sure how efficiently on this 8mb voodooFX ghost screen.