Im turning my old PC into a gaming machine for the old games. There are a couple 95 era games like Driver...

Im turning my old PC into a gaming machine for the old games. There are a couple 95 era games like Driver, NFS most wanted and NHL 2004 but most are dos era like kings quest, police quest, treasure mountain, operation Neptune and the like. My old PC has a gigabyte 7600 era GPU but im pretty sure it has 512 MB graphics memory.
My question is am I better off using windows 7 or xp for this or using Linux and wine? I am not inexperienced in Linux but this will be for my sister and I want it to be click and play.

You're better of using Windows.
For such old hardware there's a slim chance the proprietary drivers for whatever GPU are going to work properly on Linux because both Nvidia and AMD have a silly habit of abandoning drivers after 2-3 years.

Oslo try using XP, you're going to get much better compatibility because most of these games were made when XP was still "in charge", even if most of them could potentially work on 7.

Just don't connect it to a network.

Use xp, it'll be fun!

Thanks. That was my original plan, using xp and dosbox. I shouldn't have any real problems with the old games, and I can set everything to be one-click.

I still have that card laying around somewhere!

I assume you were much younger back then. Did you play any similar games?

My first PC was my dads Tandy 1000? with DOS plus windows 3.1.
The memories.

I was 15 when I bought that card. My uncle told me that cards with fans get too hot so avoid them. Good luck with that now. My current is a 380x and while it stays pretty decent in temp, im sure its no match in that regard for one of those fanless 1050s

You are so fucking retarded I don't even know where to start

From what I remember XP is not good for DOS games.
You're better off using DOSBOX on a modern computer, or using Windows 98 on that old machine.

To be honest, a 2003 era gaming PC is not very useful at all today. Most games from that era work fine on modern machines, and they can't play DOS games either. It's just a waste of electricity.

I'm 32 so I was ~21 when I bought that for my Core 2 / E6300 build. Was mainly playing BF1942 + Desert Combat mod and HL2 DM and wanted a dead silent box.

Our first system was a TI-99 but the first one I really remember was an AST 386 with DOS + 3.1. Good times!

Im 26 and I had a Celeron D I bought at walmart and wanted an upgrade for Metal of Honor and Brothers in Arms

Try XP POS Ready 2009. No activation required, completely clean (official ISO available from MS), SP3 patched up and ready to roll. Broad support for older software up through somewhat recent software.

hehe, 3DFX Voodoo 3 FTW! A real classic card for 1996 - 2000 era games. Most games at this period were pretty much geared for 3DFX hardware (Glide) so combined with a P3/Athlon/Celeron 1.4Ghz & 512mb/1GB of ram you should be set. Don't use your classic voodoo 2/3's in modern pcs cause the higher clocked cpu's send so much data to the voodoo's that the cards will overheat and die!

3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 AGP...so nice

The castle intro to Unreal was jaw dropping back in the day.

>putting Fabio on a GPU box

If you do you XP or windows & stay off the internet with it. You don't want a wannacry virus on the PC or other viruses.

Or windows 98? Is 98 still native dos?

Beep beep
Starting msdos
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Wah waaaaah

legit what makes you think a woman is going to spend anytime playing a game women dont like them

I played all the games with her as a kid. All of them. All. Of. Them.