Config P4 + Geforce 7600 GT

SidiFighter

Hello everyone, I hope you are well.
First of all, thank you for your volunteer work.
I have an old PC with a 32 bit pentium 4 processor + a Geforce 7600 GT graphics card.
I tried two years ago, recalbox 4.1 x86 and it worked very well. I was so satisfied that I wanted more. I did research and discovered batocera, last year I tried with another old but newer than the other (GTX750) I was even more satisfied.
I thought to myself, why not install batocera instead of recalbox.
I'm downloading batocera 5.25 x86.
Everything works well but the emulation of all the basic consoles is slow. So I activate the nvidia driver and it's worse even the frontend menu is slow.
I wanted to know do you have the latest version of batocera without the nvidia drivers integrated in x86?
or if not do you have a solution so that I can use this old pc because the old releases are not found whether it is batocera or recalbox.
Thank you.

joinski

SidiFighter

Geforce 7600 GT is a very old nvidia graphics card.
It may be supported by the legacy drivers:
https://wiki.batocera.org/doku.php?id=supported_hardware#nvidia_drivers

Otherwise you can find older versions of batocera in the archives-folders:

x86
http://updates.batocera.org/x86/stable/last/archives/

x86_64
http://updates.batocera.org/x86_64/stable/last/archives/

by the way: Pentium 4 in my opinion is a very bad CPU (has low performance and high power consumption /heat development).
i would rather use a more modern low end CPU like Pentium J or a Celeron Ivy Bridge Generation or newer (like Celeron 1037u for example, which is even more powerful than Pentium j1900).
you should be able to find a mainboard with such a CPU for less than 30 bucks on ebay.

SidiFighter

Hello Joinski,
I thank you for your answer.
Thank you also for the old batocera releases.
Yes, I confirm what you say about my processor.
I bought it like this, it warms me in winter 😂

If the test of an old release of batocera does not give satisfaction, I will upgrade my PC with your suggestions.

I tried the version with legacy driver but unfortunately x86-64 is not compatible with my PC.

Thank you