Am I truly alone?

>>3826767
We build separate retro gaming PCs. Better get on board before they're impossible to find without paying out the ass for them.

I want one of those multi-LED light options Dell XPS desktops to build a retro rig in.

>>3826767
Intel certainly isn't going to drop their single core performance, even if they don't improve it.
On the flipside, AMD has considerably kmprived their IPC with the new Ryzen architecture.

nVidia dicks everyone over, and does have some backwards compatibility problems with older titles.
Interestingly enough, AMD cards have better backwards compatibily, although in either case, only a select few titles are effected.

The biggest problem is what operating system you run.
Microsoft generally mainains high backwards compatibility, but the cutting of certain modes or features is the leading cause of old games failing to run.
Fallout 1/2 won't run properly because 16 bit color support was cut in win7.
Any games with secuROM won't run in win10 because MS disallowed the software calls the secuROM made.

>>3826854
The problem I see with this is that while it won't be improved, it could potentially be less as they add more cores. Can't exactly get 5.0 ghz clocks in those cases. Zen is nice for improving AMD, but they have lower clocks, which affects single thread performance.

Funny you say that. I have always heard that AMD cards tend to have worse support than Nvidia. Never seen something say it is impossible to run in Nvidia, seen it in some places for AMD. Admittedly, I cannot provide evidence as I forget where I saw it, but it makes me worried of AMD compatibility.

Indeed, OS compatibility is quite the problem, which can be made worse when everyone is being pushed to 10 and Linux isn't a viable alternative. It's painful enough needing to use a W98 VM to play the original Tomb Raider, I can't imagine things that rely on hardware acceleration. There are several games I cannot get working in a VM unless I dedicate myself to a GPU passthrough.

The best "retro" GPU is the GeForce FX series. It has full and complete support for every Direct3D version up to 9, with absolutely nothing broken. Fog tables, palatalized textures, etc, it supports it. Funny how these cards are suddenly quite useful now, even though they had a reputation for being garbage back in the day.

If you really want Glide, best retro cards is Voodoo 2 SLI, as they have full support for all Glide games.

ATi cards aren't actually that good for backwards compatibility.

>>3826930
The only two games I know of with GPU incompatibilities are Crimson Skies and Dark Void.

Crimson Skies uses non-power-of-2 textures, which not all modern nVidia cards support/play well with.

Dark Void I'd just chalk up to Capcom's all around shitty programing.
This is particularly ironic because Dark Void uses PhysX for loads of things.

>>3826767
The best rig for late 90's shooters probably isn't going to be a late 2010's machine.