I figured it'd be cool to know this..
What's the newest video card that has drivers for Windows 3.x? For 95? For 98? 98SE? ME? What about NT3.x, 3.5x, or 4?
There's stuff like SDD as well, which can help things along, but it should be noted if that's required.
It's not hard to find this information for 2k and above, it gets spotty for 98SE/ME/NT4, but there's almost no documentation for 95/NT3/NT35/3x as far as this goes.
I have had a Geforce 4200Ti working on Windows 95 with official drivers, giving resolutions upward of at least 1080p on my modern monitor - no registry hacking even needed!
I know that my Matrox Millentium G250A has drivers for Win3x, but am about to investigate how that works out just today as for resolution/etc. This card is from ~1998, so it's quite late for hardware support on 3x. This card is spec'd to handle 1920x1200 at it's maximum, I believe, so I hope to see it do so on 9x, and would be thrilled to see it do so on 3x. My end goal, actually, is to see 1920x1080 on Win3x. Might have to get into the code-my-own-driver realm for that, though, or at least hex editing one..
This information is cool just for the sake of curiosity, but it's also useful, because you can pick a video card for a build based on what resolution you want to use, or based on how much power you want the machine to have, without having to hunt around for each card and figure out what works on what OS. You might want to be able to accelerate DirectX on a Win95 box to a point where only the CPU/RAM/etc. is being taxed for the sake of benchmarks. You might want to use a modern monitor at native resolution for convenience, as in my case. Not as frivolous as you might imagine.
I'd like to hear what you guys have run into. If there's interest I guess we could do sound cards and other things too, but personally I'm not too interested in that - the other direction, trying to get SB-compatible sound and IDE, FDD. etc. on newer systems interests me more when it comes to non-video. xD There's exceptions, of course, like 3dfx cards. Drivers up through XP exist for V2 and up..
What's the newest video card that has drivers for Windows 3.x? For 95? For 98? 98SE? ME? What about NT3.x, 3.5x, or 4?
There's stuff like SDD as well, which can help things along, but it should be noted if that's required.
It's not hard to find this information for 2k and above, it gets spotty for 98SE/ME/NT4, but there's almost no documentation for 95/NT3/NT35/3x as far as this goes.
I have had a Geforce 4200Ti working on Windows 95 with official drivers, giving resolutions upward of at least 1080p on my modern monitor - no registry hacking even needed!
I know that my Matrox Millentium G250A has drivers for Win3x, but am about to investigate how that works out just today as for resolution/etc. This card is from ~1998, so it's quite late for hardware support on 3x. This card is spec'd to handle 1920x1200 at it's maximum, I believe, so I hope to see it do so on 9x, and would be thrilled to see it do so on 3x. My end goal, actually, is to see 1920x1080 on Win3x. Might have to get into the code-my-own-driver realm for that, though, or at least hex editing one..
This information is cool just for the sake of curiosity, but it's also useful, because you can pick a video card for a build based on what resolution you want to use, or based on how much power you want the machine to have, without having to hunt around for each card and figure out what works on what OS. You might want to be able to accelerate DirectX on a Win95 box to a point where only the CPU/RAM/etc. is being taxed for the sake of benchmarks. You might want to use a modern monitor at native resolution for convenience, as in my case. Not as frivolous as you might imagine.
I'd like to hear what you guys have run into. If there's interest I guess we could do sound cards and other things too, but personally I'm not too interested in that - the other direction, trying to get SB-compatible sound and IDE, FDD. etc. on newer systems interests me more when it comes to non-video. xD There's exceptions, of course, like 3dfx cards. Drivers up through XP exist for V2 and up..
