Win8 drivers on Win10

[Methanoid]

Hi, running Win 10 LTSC2021 cos I dont want MS bloat and hacked Windows installs

Would like to run either a Quadro FX 5500 (1GB) card or a Geforce 7600 GS (512MB) card and heard people claim they can but I get all sorts of driver artefacts if I use the Win8 drivers that allegedly work (last Nvidia drivers for these cards). 

Anyone got any ideas how to fix? Omores on YT suggests a Theme change to a different (as yet unnamed) theme fixes for him but still waiting to hear what its called. Wondering if anyone knows the answer?

[halohalo]

Different OS version has different compatibility. For example, the control panel of Audigy Rx works perfect on 1607, but on 21H2 the EQ only supports 2ch and always resets to 2ch after reboot.

[Methanoid]

What about modding Win10 specific drivers like "341.92-desktop-win10-64bit-international" to add support for the removed hardware (6000/7000 series cards) back and seeing if that works?

[halohalo]

You should try different old versions of Windows 10 until you find the compatible version. My 6800GT AGP worked well on 1507 x86.

[Methanoid]

9 hours ago, halohalo said:

You should try different old versions of Windows 10 until you find the compatible version. My 6800GT AGP worked well on 1507 x86.

 

Thanks but I could never leave LTSC and get a Windows with all the crud MS forces on most users.

But I did find I could live with the Windows 8 driver and fix the problems it gave with two SMALL tweaks. Firstly disable Transparency Effects (which I don't need anyway) which stops Win8 drivers making taskbar transparent for some bizarre reason and secondly in my Brave (Chromium) browser I had extension icons go semi visible. Disabling GPU Acceleration in browser fixes that

Also modded the BIOS of my Quadro FX 5500 to undervolt from 1.4 to 1.3V reducing heat generated by 14% appx and reducing fan from 70% to 50% and overall reducing the temperatures by 1C. 

Now I have a GPU I can run DOS/98 through to Win10/11 on. My retrobox will do all that I want now (I have a gaming system separately with a decent CPU/GPU combo).