WIn95 and ATI 9800 pro

HI All,
i dual boot 98 and xp (used to be 95 and xp when i had my geforce4). i recently upgraded my video card to an ati radeon 9800 pro (wow, what a difference), but i cannot locate a driver for win95. i was able to load 95 entirely, but when i tried to load the video drivers, it could not find a specific file. with that, i had to load 98 .can anyone help me.

thanks
Brad

 

The radeon 9800 or any in the 9000 series in fact, is not compatible with Windows 95 and no driver exists. Also a new 9800 would probably require DirectX9 or higher, which is also not 95 compatible. Sorry!

 

oh well, thanks for the update.

 

Seems like a whole lot of overkill running this sort of graphics card with Windows 95 (if it could install). AFAIK most games that will install on 95 will certainly not take advantage of a 9800 card. Even a GF4 card would be approaching (if not exceeding) overkill for W95. DirectX9 compatability is a major issue!

A collegue who is an insane gamer says that Doom 3 is the only game in his (large) collection that comes close to taxing the ability of the 9800, and that game is only for XP/W2K.

For me, my GF4 Ti4200 works fine for Doom 3. But I refuse to benchmark and check frame rates, which are all part of a conspiracy to get gamers to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade.