Thanks to EAZY BLACK, we officially now have the 359.06 XP driver ported to vanilla Windows 2000, which means we are no longer restricted to the GTX 480 without the extended kernel!
In my testing here, I have a 2500K system with a 980 Ti, and although for now there is no control panel, the driver itself seems to be stable! And yes, 3D acceleration seems to work fine as well.
The driver: https://w7revived.chefkiss.dev/DriverDatabase/W2K/Graphics/NVIDIA/NVIDIA_35906_W2K_Beta1.7z
Required updates (Update Rollup 1 and KB829884) are in here: https://legacywindowssoftware.duckd…ed NVIDIA drivers for Windows 2000 (Vanilla)/
Edit by Fernando: Thread moved into the “Windows 2000” Category and title customized