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Good morning,

I have a client with an oldish machine who accepted the win 10 upgrade after it stated her 3Gb ram win 7 32 bit desktop pc was compatible.

She uses microsoft’s games (solitaire and Mahjong) which now run at a snails pace and often won’t run at all.

After a little research I found the probable cause was windows had deleted her graphics drivers (ATI Radeon 9600 pro AGP 8x) and substituted their basic vga one. A look on her driver site found her card will not be having win 10 drivers added.

Anyone know of an AGP 8X slot card with win 10 drivers or even a PCI (NOT PCIex) card? This is the UK by the way.

I think she has a short while before the 30 day limit to revert back to win 7 comes into force.

Thanking you all in advance.

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Perhaps this will be helpful. It is from a user who has Windows 10-32 with an AGP video card. He tells how he got the video card working.

Group "L" (Linux Mint)
with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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Perhaps this will be helpful. It is from a user who has Windows 10-32 with an AGP video card. He tells how he got the video card working.

Thanks for that. I’ll give it a go and get back.

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Perhaps this will be helpful. It is from a user who has Windows 10-32 with an AGP video card. He tells how he got the video card working.

That’s the card I have on this machine; nvidia don’t say it supports Win 10, but they don’t say it doesn’t, either. It just goes to show – it’s always worth trying a driver for an older OS.

This may also be of interest to the OP.

Oh, and this.

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That’s the card I have on this machine; nvidia don’t say it supports Win 10, but they don’t say it doesn’t, either. It just goes to show – it’s always worth trying a driver for an older OS.

This may also be of interest to the OP.

Oh, and this.

Thanks I’ll give it a look.

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mrjimphelps,

Did you know that site referred to is crapware?

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mrjimphelps,

Did you know that site referred to is crapware?

As far as I know, TenForums is a legitimate site. It is run by the same people who have SevenForums and EightForums, and I know that those two are legitimate sites.

Is there something specific that you have found on TenForums that concerns you?

Group "L" (Linux Mint)
with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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Sorry for misunderstanding. The poster on Tenforums refers onward to Reviversoft.com for a possible solution. reviversoft is crapware.

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Have her create a full system image of what she has now, revert back and create a full system image onto different media for her Win 7 then she can go back to Win 10 without having to worry if she will have an usable Win 10 – if she hasn’t already done that.

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Did you know that site referred to is crapware?

I would be interested to know where you got that reference from as I have used tenforums for awhile now and have seen no problems with it.

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does 🙂
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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Sorry. see above. I often also use Tenforums.

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Have you tried the Vista drivers for the Radeon 9600? They may possibly work with Win10.

You can find them here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=Legacy1&os=Windows%20Vista%20-%2032

If the installer says you don’t have a compatible OS, you could try updating the driver from Device Manager and pointing it at the folder where the self-extractor has been unpacked.

(I’ve successfully got Win10 working using Vista drivers for a slightly-newer Radeon Xpress 200M on an old – 2006-vintage – laptop.)

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