These cards could be troublesome. My experience with older AGP cards (Powercolor Radeon HD 3650) required the user to download the AGP driver from the Powercolor's website. The Catalyst hotfix drivers on ATI/AMD's don't recognize the device ID of the video card.
These cards are supported with the latest Catalyst Drivers. As of the 1950's and earlier series, AMD stopped updating the drivers since 9.3. -- If you are having half as much fun as I am, then I must be having twice the fun than you are. Do The Math!
These cards could be troublesome. My experience with older AGP cards (Powercolor Radeon HD 3650) required the user to download the AGP driver from the Powercolor's website. The Catalyst hotfix drivers on ATI/AMD's don't recognize the device ID of the video card.
The Sapphire HD 3650 (on my last biuild) required AGP drivers directly from Sapphire as well. The ATI Radeon drivers from the AMD website just wouldn't work. It was a PITA as many times the updated drivers lagged behind ATI's current release by a week or more...
These cards could be troublesome. My experience with older AGP cards (Powercolor Radeon HD 3650) required the user to download the AGP driver from the Powercolor's website. The Catalyst hotfix drivers on ATI/AMD's don't recognize the device ID of the video card.
The Sapphire HD 3650 (on my last biuild) required AGP drivers directly from Sapphire as well. The ATI Radeon drivers from the AMD website just wouldn't work. It was a PITA as many times the updated drivers lagged behind ATI's current release by a week or more...
It seems all the AGP versions of the 3XXX and 4XXX cards share this same issue. If the drivers on the CD don't work, you're done. Sapphire offers no driver support and the ATI drivers won't recognize the card. From what I've read, the other manufacturers versions are not much better, if at all.
I did get the HD3850 running but the performance increase over the X850XT is less than stellar. I'm sure it depends on what you're upgrading from but unless you absolutely need a card with SM3, I doubt any of these cards are a worthy upgrade from an already high-end AGP card for gaming purposes.
The lack of driver support really is a deal killer..
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