Radeon 64 DDR in XP?

[aawil]

I was curious if my radeon 64 DDR has drivers compatible with XP Pro? I know this board is pretty old now but I can't upgrade everything at once. Is the Radeon 8500 64M the same card just renamed? Thanks Everybody.

[thronka]

The Radeon Catylast (spelling?) drivers will work. Just download them and install.

[Jeordiewhite]

Yes the catalyst driver should work just fine, get it here:
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/w...1&submit=GO%21
No the Radeon 8500 was competing with the geforce 3, which both are still pretty good cards.
Here's a couple review of the card, http://www.thetriplehelix.com/sectio...ticle&artid=78
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardwar...dr/index.shtml

[aawil]

Thanks guys. I guess i'll try and get some more time out of this old card. That Asus 9800XT looks pretty neat though. A like the VIVO features that this cars has and would hate to give them up. I wonder if these graphics card based Video recorders are up to the task of recording for dvds? A dvd burner is next on my list.

[Jeordiewhite]

Well probably not, considering macrovision is used in the nvidia and ati drivers and even your dvd player will do the same, a dvd-rom or dvd burner for your computer would hopefully do any dvd back up's if you like.