For Windows, its always been beneficial to use older hardware for older generations of games, say TeraScale Radeon GPU's for the 16bit and 32bit PC games in 32bit Windows.

However, I find very little discussion on this topic for Linux specifically unless we are talking the Win9x era, or DOS specifically as PCem, 86Box essentially emulates the hardware necessary to run software and games.

However these fall off when it comes to 32bit era 3D PC games particularly from the XP and Vista era as the 2000s PC gaming is really the wild west in terms of installers working properly and just general compatibility, a lot of modern GPU's does not even work properly with DirectX 8 anymore which is an issue as DirectX 6, 7, 8 and 9 were very common in the 2000s.

But its been 15 years since I tried to install PC games of this era on Linux, whats the experience today, can we get away with modern hardware? Or do I need hardware of the era that makes the process less painful.

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I have a b550K from gigabyte, a ryzen 5 5600gt as my cpu and i currently have a 1660 super and want to upgrade

I want something modern to play at 1080p with good consistent 60fps and ocasionally the usage of raytracing

In my use case, being on a budget, which one of those 3 i should pick knowing i will be running a gentoo system (wayland/hyprland specifically, on kernel 6.12)?

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