Tom's Hardware > Forum > Graphic & Displays > Graphics Cards > Graphics Cards & WIN2K !!

Graphics Cards & WIN2K !!

Forum Graphic & Displays : Graphics Cards - Graphics Cards & WIN2K !!

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
siltec   08-24-2008 at 09:55:56 PM

I do not understand of why graphic card manufacturers have in the last 2 years stopped supporting win2k users by not providing drivers !!

ATI cards produced after the X850 are only available with drivers for users of XP and ... Vista !! in another word its mainly for XP, which in my view is not a great idea for the sales wizz kids who are paid to increase market sales.

I am not sure if this is a policy or a tech matter !! and its even more
confusing when they continue to produce AGP cards !! for a by gone systems.

I have been using win2k since 2001, it worked every day without any
problems, and in 2008 its still working on an intel bad axe 2 mobo with
duo core E8600 using a fast raptor WD HDD and ... an old HIS X800 GTO !








Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
Doltron   08-24-2008 at 10:04:49 PM
- 0 +

Why would they make drivers for the 0.1% of computer users using win2k?

Message quoted 1 times
Reply to Doltron
ohiou_grad_06   08-24-2008 at 10:07:54 PM
- 0 +

It's old. Period. One thing you might try if you need a driver for a specific card is to see if the OS will accept a Windows XP driver. I know that XP was supposed to have been based on Windows 2000, and some Windows 2000 drivers actually worked on hardware under windows xp. Not sure if the reverse is true or not...

Reply to ohiou_grad_06
orion1024   08-24-2008 at 10:36:45 PM
- 0 +

I went through the same thing a couple years back...the video drivers worked under Win2k, but antialiasing couldn't be enabled. So, I was forced to upgrade that machine to XP...even though 2000 worked perfectly otherwise (and was faster than XP in games by about 10%). It's planned obsolescence. Even though a product might be old, if it works well and continues to serve your needs, that's all that matters. All it takes is one critical piece of functionality to go unsupported and then that product is potentially useless to you...but that's how the biz works.

Reply to orion1024
Nik_I   08-24-2008 at 10:51:39 PM
- 0 +

i can't think of a single reason why anyone should still be running windows 2000. it's 8 years old already, and has no benefits over xp. and really, by now people should be running vista. the tech industry progresses way too fast to still be using the same OS you were using in 2000.

Message quoted 1 times
Reply to Nik_I
dagger   08-24-2008 at 11:02:36 PM
- 0 +

Nik_I wrote :

i can't think of a single reason why anyone should still be running windows 2000. it's 8 years old already, and has no benefits over xp. and really, by now people should be running vista. the tech industry progresses way too fast to still be using the same OS you were using in 2000.


People used to say XP is bloated and useless compared to 2000 much the same way they compare XP to Vista now. Some people stay true to what they say. :p

 

As for driver for 2000, you didn't look hard enough.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Radeon [...] -1817.html

Message quoted 2 times
------------------------------ Q6600@3.6ghz, GA-EX38-DS4 motherboard, 8gb 800mhz ddr2 4-3-3-12, 8800GTS(g92)@780mhz, 1TB + 1.5TB hdds, 850watt psu
 Reply to dagger
Nik_I   08-24-2008 at 11:05:34 PM
- 0 +

dagger wrote :

People used to say XP is bloated and useless compared to 2000 much the same way they compare XP to Vista now. Some people stay true to what they say. :p

As for driver for 2000, you didn't look hard enough.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Radeon [...] -1817.html



that is true, but personally i don't even find vista all that bloated. things like UAC are a bit poorly implemented, but it's not nearly as slow as the media is making it sound. but really, people still using win2k are (at least imo) just afraid of change.

Reply to Nik_I
siltec   08-25-2008 at 10:34:44 AM
- 0 +

Doltron wrote :

Why would they make drivers for the 0.1% of computer users using win2k?




I agree, but I am not sure of how many users are in the 0.1% !,
I would guess it would be in the millions world wide.

Reply to siltec
siltec   08-25-2008 at 11:08:12 AM
- 0 +

dagger wrote :

People used to say XP is bloated and useless compared to 2000 much the same way they compare XP to Vista now. Some people stay true to what they say. :p

As for driver for 2000, you didn't look hard enough.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Radeon [...] -1817.html



The single reason of why I am still running win 2000 instead of moving to Vista is ...
because I would not be able to use my Graphic, DTP, Accounts software(s) among many other
programmes which are incompatible and there are no patches available. They cost thousands to replace !!

Thanks dagger will have a look at the drivers link.


Reply to siltec
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Graphic & Displays > Graphics Cards > Graphics Cards & WIN2K !!
Go to:

There are 1212 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.467 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
How do I win badges?