OldSchool38 Posted March 31 Posted March 31 I got my hands on a 2gb HD 6450 graphics card today and have tried some of Blackwingcat's drivers with no success so far. Can this card be used for Win2k or will I have to downgrade to XP for this one?
D.Draker Posted March 31 Posted March 31 I once had 6510, the lowest I could get it to work with was XP64 bit (without SP!). In general, ATI/AMD are very fast to drop old OS, so you'd have more success with Nvidia.
windows2 Posted March 31 Posted March 31 1 hour ago, OldSchool38 said: I got my hands on a 2gb HD 6450 graphics card today and have tried some of Blackwingcat's drivers with no success so far. Can this card be used for Win2k or will I have to downgrade to XP for this one? did you install extended core ?
OldSchool38 Posted March 31 Author Posted March 31 1 hour ago, D.Draker said: I once had 6510, the lowest I could get it to work with was XP64 bit (without SP!). In general, ATI/AMD are very fast to drop old OS, so you'd have more success with Nvidia. Darn, I've got a 1gb Geforce 210 that works fine, but I was hoping for something more powerful. Just now, windows2 said: did you install extended core ? No, not sure which one to use-last time I tried (with windows 2000 + HFSLIP slipstreamed and the current extended kernel) I had weird stuff happen like VLC media player freezing things up when I tried to play a video.
D.Draker Posted April 1 Posted April 1 12 hours ago, OldSchool38 said: Darn, I've got a 1gb Geforce 210 that works fine, but I was hoping for something more powerful. Well, I don't think 6450 is that much more powerful, those both are bottom feeders. What is the memory type on your 210? If it's DDR3, it's not that slower. Raw Performance comparison Pixel Rate GeForce 210 2.08 GP/s Radeon HD 6450 2.50 GP/s GigaPixels - higher is better Texel Rate GeForce 210 4.16 GT/s Radeon HD 6450 5.00 GT/s GigaTexels - higher is better https://hwbench.com/vgas/geforce-210-vs-radeon-hd-6450
OldSchool38 Posted April 1 Author Posted April 1 Well before I give up, I'd like to give extended core another try-can anyone give me a link to the one that works best with extended kernel with minimal problems?
OldSchool38 Posted April 1 Author Posted April 1 Did some searching and found the latest extended core, tried installing it and got the same lockups when trying to use VLC, I'm just going to reinstall, install the latest extended kernel and leave extended core out of it-I have a radeon 3450 512mb card I know I can use with BWC's drivers.
windows2 Posted April 3 Posted April 3 On 4/1/2025 at 1:07 AM, OldSchool38 said: Darn, I've got a 1gb Geforce 210 that works fine, but I was hoping for something more powerful. No, not sure which one to use-last time I tried (with windows 2000 + HFSLIP slipstreamed and the current extended kernel) I had weird stuff happen like VLC media player freezing things up when I tried to play a video. try the 2025 v16e one from https://www.win2k.org/wlu/wluen.htm
OldSchool38 Posted April 6 Author Posted April 6 On 4/3/2025 at 9:45 PM, windows2 said: try the 2025 v16e one from https://www.win2k.org/wlu/wluen.htm That's the one I tried, maybe it's just my system but it doesn't like VLC so I'm just going to avoid extended core for now.
OldSchool38 Posted April 15 Author Posted April 15 Think I have a better solution now, I got a 4 pack of Nvidia 330 1gb cards from ebay last week and they work great with 2000! 1
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