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Originally Posted by lordsmurf
A Pentium III is too old an slow. Even a P4 with less than 2ghz is looking for trouble. I used a powerful P4 1.8ghz for years, but it had other high-end specs to make it workable for capture.
512mb RAM will never work. Anything under 2gb is pushing your luck.
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Windows 98 will choke if 2GB of RAM is installed.
Honestly those old Pinnacle DC series cards aren't worth the hassle. I used them when they were current and they never worked right back then. Many of them had that silly Zoran MJPEG hardware compression chip that never got proper DirectShow drivers for Windows 2000. the actual ADC on the card appears to be the very common Phillips SAA7110 series chip.
The best OS for them back in the day was Windows NT 4.0 (since that at least uses NTFS for storage), and even that was annoying because of how obsolete/limited that OS was in circa 2000 hardware.