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Originally Posted by fo3
...Anyway, my main PC needed an upgrade as the ati 4770 card was too old for win10 or even linux mint so I upgraded my main pc and am using the old parts for a windows xp old game box. Stats are:
amd 1090t cpu, ati 4770 gpu, 8gb ram.
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Did you use the latest video driver? or did you try an older driver from shortly after the newest games release?
I've noticed over the years that newer drivers support for older games on older cards can be iffy.
First suggestion would be to try a driver from 2007-2010 and see if it works.
Re-install DX9, might have to find the "re-distributable" version. Should be the one that came with most games.
Years ago there was an article on one of the game sites, that game companies were sending the GPU data in the wrong order, which gave horrible frame-rates on new games.
So new drivers with per-game tweaks had to be released.
Eventually I noticed that older games stopped working at all.
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As far as MINT not working, the "Radeon" (kernel) driver takes care of all ATI/AMD cards pre-"GCN" (i.e. R5/7/9 2xx) and earlier. All the way back to (but maybe not including) the "Rage 128" series. I have a family member with Fedora 25/26 (I forget which, and I'm not sure if they've upgraded yet) using one of my old X1650 cards, so your HD4770 should work fine.
There have been many upgrades to the drivers in the last 6 months (give or take) specifically for the HD4xxx-HD6xxx cards.
If Mint 18 (I think, the new one) isn't working, and Ubuntu doesn't "see" it...
You might try one of the Fedora "spins" like KDE/LXDE/XFCE, but avoid Gnome as it uses the new "Wayland" in place of "Xorg".
WINE isn't yet setup to work with Wayland, Yet. (Supposed to be in the works.)
I had some trouble the last year with flickering in SH3/4, but Kernel 4.15.7 and newer fixed it.
(Heads up: Fedora is basically a "beta" for "Redhat Enterprise Linux". New version every 6 months (has upgrade program so you don't need to re-install), and support (i.e. updates) for a version last until 1 month after the 2nd "new release".
i.e. My F27 will be supported until 1 month after F29 is released.
Ubuntu and Mint on the other hand tend to stick with the same primary version, i.e. 4.14.XX, of the program to avoid new bugs.
But "new" stuff has to wait until the next version next year.
Might be the reason, updated drivers haven't landed in Mint, yet.)
Just a few thoughts on possible options with Either OS.
Barracuda