Video drivers redux http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000448.html Note to self, do not, under penalty of death, ever fuck around with the video card drivers for this piece... wkearney 2003-08-07T09:17:33-05:00 http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000448.html en-us Geek Note to self, do not, under penalty of death, ever fuck around with the video card drivers for this piece... 2003-08-07T09:17:33-05:00 Note to self, do not, under penalty of death, ever fuck around with the video card drivers for this piece of shit ancient Voodoo Banshee AGP card. Talk about a huge goat f*ck. The whole one-company-bought-up-by-another combined with major-operating-system-changes made for some real horrible cases of orphaned hardware. Apparently having bought a card manufactured by one company (soon to have been bought out) based on a chipset from another company (also soon to have been bought out) installed on an OS soon to have it's driver architecture radically updated was just too many variables in the equation. As a result it's nigh-on-fucking impossible to get the damned thing working in Windows 2000. (and you 'use some other OS' people can just shut the hell up)

By random chance I managed to find a set of drivers that works. Thank you Internet Archive! For those likewise suffering with one of these damned cards driver version 5.00.2112.35 seems to work. The 2195 versions just crash so don't bother.

I offer this bit of advice humbling hoping some other poor bastard googling for a solution finds it.

Meanwhile, what video card offers the best desktop application performance? I'd like to get something really geared toward kick-ass performance for productivty applications. As in, 3D performance isn't critical (I have another box for Unreal). What's the best price performer in this class? It'd be doubly-cool if it also supported dual displays.

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