No Win98SE driver for Geforce 6600GT?

"Orhan" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm running a Dual-Boot system (XP Pro + Win 98SE) and intend to buy a
Winfast Geforce 6600 GT video card. But the latest available nVidia
driver for Win98SE is Forceware 61.76 and it doesn't support Geforce
6600 cards.

Should I wait for a driver update?

Any comments, please.

Orhan

Nvidia arn't support their chipsets under win9x, so why their GPU's? This
is despite the fact that Microsoft have extended their "update" service for
win98se/me untill the middle of next year.

But when you say the driver "supports" the 6600GT , isn't that a moot point.
No one (sensible?) is likely to run the latest games under 9x, and only the
latest games push modern cards to the level of needing dx9 shaders etc. So
won't the old pre 6600gt driver install and run, say dx8 games OK, which is
all you should be doing with win9x?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_66.94

But it says in the release notes "NoAdded support for GeForce 6600, GeForce
6600 GT, and GeForce 6200 " . Is that "No" at the beginning a typo?

DaveL


"John Russell" wrote in message
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"Orhan" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

I'm running a Dual-Boot system (XP Pro + Win 98SE) and intend to buy a
Winfast Geforce 6600 GT video card. But the latest available nVidia
driver for Win98SE is Forceware 61.76 and it doesn't support Geforce
6600 cards.

Should I wait for a driver update?

Any comments, please.

Orhan

Nvidia arn't support their chipsets under win9x, so why their GPU's? This
is despite the fact that Microsoft have extended their "update" service
for
win98se/me untill the middle of next year.

But when you say the driver "supports" the 6600GT , isn't that a moot
point.
No one (sensible?) is likely to run the latest games under 9x, and only
the
latest games push modern cards to the level of needing dx9 shaders etc. So
won't the old pre 6600gt driver install and run, say dx8 games OK, which
is
all you should be doing with win9x?

Nvidia do support Windows 98 SE and ME

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_win9x_4.27

Nvidia arn't support their chipsets under win9x, so why their GPU's? This
is despite the fact that Microsoft have extended their "update" service
for win98se/me untill the middle of next year.

Orhan wrote:



Hi,

I'm running a Dual-Boot system (XP Pro + Win 98SE) and intend to buy a
Winfast Geforce 6600 GT video card. But the latest available nVidia
driver for Win98SE is Forceware 61.76 and it doesn't support Geforce
6600 cards.

Should I wait for a driver update?

Any comments, please.

Orhan

I just got a XFX 6600GT for my son for a Christmas present. It comes with
drivers for win98se. They aren't the latest drivers, in fact I don't even
see them listed on the Nvidia site (I think they are 61.24 but I don't want
to unwrap the box again :-).

For those who think people don't run the latest games under win98, think
again. My sons do. At $150-$200 a pop to upgrade to XP and with 4 computers
in the house, those win98se computers are going to get pushed to the
breaking point before any upgrades begin. $600 to $800 for operating
software is just too damn expensive to plunk down at a whim - at least for
home/hobby/game use.

tim

"Quietman" quietman1968 at hotmail dot com wrote in message
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Nvidia do support Windows 98 SE and ME

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_win9x_4.27

Hardly a 5.x series install, and no SATA driver for the nforce3/4!

"DaveL" wrote in message
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http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_66.94

But it says in the release notes "NoAdded support for GeForce 6600,
GeForce
6600 GT, and GeForce 6200 " . Is that "No" at the beginning a typo?

DaveL



But that could mean nothing more than the drivers contain no optimised code
for these GPU's, and the driver will just use "generic" code for the Nvidia
architecture, which again should be suffucient for win9x.

There is a 66.42 from Guru3D that supports both Win98SE and the 6600 GT
card.

Orhan wrote:
Hi,

I'm running a Dual-Boot system (XP Pro + Win 98SE) and intend to buy a
Winfast Geforce 6600 GT video card. But the latest available nVidia
driver for Win98SE is Forceware 61.76 and it doesn't support Geforce
6600 cards.

Should I wait for a driver update?

Any comments, please.

Orhan

tim gorman wrote in :

For those who think people don't run the latest games under win98, think
again. My sons do. At $150-$200 a pop to upgrade to XP and with 4 computers
in the house, those win98se computers are going to get pushed to the
breaking point before any upgrades begin. $600 to $800 for operating
software is just too damn expensive to plunk down at a whim - at least for
home/hobby/game use.

tim


I second this. I am running many new games. The OS is not the issue, the
hardware is. I have DX9.0c installed.

Unless it's Doom3 or HL2?

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"John Smithe" wrote in message
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I second this. I am running many new games. The OS is not the issue, the
hardware is. I have DX9.0c installed.

"Orhan" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

I'm running a Dual-Boot system (XP Pro + Win 98SE) and intend to buy a
Winfast Geforce 6600 GT video card. But the latest available nVidia
driver for Win98SE is Forceware 61.76 and it doesn't support Geforce
6600 cards.

Should I wait for a driver update?

Any comments, please.

Orhan


The latest nVidia for VGA driver version 66.94 should be able to support
6600GT model.
Windows 98 / ME / 95
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_66.94
Windows 98 driver can be use with 98 SE.


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