Windows 2000

I'll try it and report back.

I'm using Chrome 49 @siria. The latest that's avaiable for Windows XP.

Doesn't seem to work either. Wasn't able to do that myself.

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, I've tried it but it doesn't seem to do anything. Beware, because I downgraded my PC from Windows 7 to Windows XP x64 and then those problems came.

Hello. I've installed Windows XP x64 SP2 on my main PC a week ago. Everything seems to work wonderfully, except for some weird problems with some SSL certificates. Google Earth doesn't seem to work, Steam can't download games ("Can't connect to server"), Chrome can't load some sites saying ERROR_SSL_"something". So I've been trying to figure it out, but nothing I do seems to work. I've installed some updates, enabled Automatic Updates letting Windows to install hundreds more, I've tried @heinoganda's certificate updater.. Nothing, just nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Can anyone test that if it is real.

This may actually be the case. I will try with a different disc and build and report later.

Hello everybody! I've recently installed Windows NT 4.0 on one of my old Pentium 4 laptops and everything including drivers seems to work, except the fact that the OS always boots in Debug like mode. Rather than Start on the taskbar it says Debug and you can see the build number of the OS in the upper middle of the desktop. Any ideas why and how to fix it? Thanks in advance!

I didn't really know about that forum and to be honest, I'm quite glad you told me about it. There are in fact some quite useful things there which could help for some rough days. Appreciated. So, with that done I'd only also like to know how to optimize Windows's performance? Any tips for that?

Hello everyone. I'm running Windows XP on an old Pentium 4 Mobile, ThinkPad T30 laptop and it is running smoothly but I'd like to know ways in which I could make it run even better. Any tips, tricks, patches? I'd also like to make that laptop live as long as possible so any tips for that would also be greatly appreciated too. Thanks in advance.

Just found the thread. To be fair, i'm quite astonished by how powerful of hardware can be put on Windows 2000. Thanks everyone for the info, that's pretty much everything I wanted to know. Now I can start slowly upgrading my PC. If anybody has any more suggestions, feel free to share them.

That processor is a beast! May I ask, why GTX 960 would be the most powerful? Aren't the more powerful 900 series working? I don't really need more than 4 GB RAM except in some pretty rare occasions, but I just have quite a bit of RAM sticks laying around which I could just use for the sake of it. I'd just like to get the most possible out of the OS.

Windows 2000 Professional, yes.

Hello! I was just curious as to what's the most powerful Windows 2000 machine that one could build? As far as I'm aware, the most powerful GPU that can work on Windows 2000 is GTX 980Ti or maybe the GTX TITAN X (non pascal) thanks to Blackwingcat's driver. What's on the processor and motherboard side? What's the most powerful processor that works with Windows 2000? - My Intel Core i5 2500 works just fine with Windows 2000 but I assume that there are quite a bit more powerful processors that could work. Also, what's the most RAM you could get to work if you bypass the 32bit limit? On the hard drive side, as far as I'm aware the boot partition cannot be larger than 2TB, but a secondary partition could reach up to 256GB? - maybe? Any info would be appreciated. Have a great day!

Any luck with modding anything @Dibya ? I'm still up for testing.

And is there a proof that the unofficial driver completely would support GTX 1060, because I might consider buying it if so.

Actually, I'm looking for Nvidia GTX 1050Ti driver.

I'd also like to know if there's any progress with the drivers.

Don't go off-topic guys. Create a separate topic for AMD-ish issues. I don't have lots of options here as the Nvidia GTX 1050Ti isn't supported by neither of those drivers, so the only way to get around it is to mod the .inf file by adding the hardware IDs, which only works on 372.70. Absolutely no other driver has either enabled aero or had any type of 3d acceleration.

I didn't know that.. I might try EVGA's one. I'm using Softpedia's one. UPDATE: Don't even bother with EVGA's driver. It is not going to work.

That's the only driver that works for me. @2008WindowsVista Well, I might try Windows 7's driver, but I do not have any hope in getting it to work, as it is one of the later 380 versions.

@2008WindowsVista When I saw the screenshot with that Dolphin and Sponge Bob thingy, I just couldn't hold myself but try it. Surprisingly enough, everything was buttery smooth at 4K 60FPS (including cutscenes, which seemed more demanding than the game itself) and the GPU was working wonderfully, including the fan. I just wish I could say the same for heavier 3D applications. Less than 10FPS with constant 100% GPU load, but surprisingly the GPU stays under 40C, which is a proof that heavier 3D applications can't use the GPU properly. (The screenshots below are on two completely different games from 2011-2012.)

@burd It was a hell of a lot worse than Microsoft's integrated video driver in Windows. @Dibya The PC is completely compatible with Windows Vista (as I have been using it for some time, before getting the new GPU) and all 3D applications that I've tested so far, must work on my PC flawlessly.

Alright. One problem's out. I've tried it on Windows 7 and apparently the fan doesn't start until a certain degree, which means that it wasn't Windows Vista's fault on that. The only problem left now is the terrible performance on 3D applications. I will now try installing the latest official Nvidia driver on Vista by adding the hardware IDs and share the results here. UPDATE: Definitely no hope in getting 365.19 to work. The system just crashes and once you reboot it, you get flooded by error messages (which don't seem to go away) and awful graphical glitches.

Thank you for your reply. I didn't have those updates installed (except SP2), but even after installing them and rebooting the computer, the graphics card performed ridiculously bad on a game from 2005. The game is GTA San Andreas and it was running with roughly around 10 FPS on avg. I've also noticed by the screenshot that for some reason the graphics card's fan doesn't work at all in Vista. EDIT: Just noticed one more thing. 3D Applications (ex: games after 2004) run perfectly fine for the first 10 seconds of gameplay and then the FPS drops drastically.