Hi all, I have seen benchmarking software threads for Win98 on vogons, but I have a different requirement. Some games have built-in benchmarking, with avg., high FPS, etc. Is there some program for Win98 that is able to give FPS statistics for any generic 3D game? e.g. if I run any (or almost any) …

Hey Joseph! Thanks as always. Is this the card you're talking about? https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/RX800GTOTD256E/support The model is similar, but mine is made by PowerColor. You can find a full review of my card in this Anandtech article . It seems that on the support page there are drivers …

I was thinking that similarly X800 should also work? If anyone has any knowledge about this, or any alternative GFX cards equivalent to or better in performance than X800, please let me know. Thanks! Should work fine with Catalyst 6.2 drivers. In one of my builds , I'm using a PCIe X800 GTO under …

dominusprog wrote on 2023-11-25, 10:18: For one thing, the driver supports Windows 2000 through Vista. Yet I've seen video of X850 working just fine in Win98 SE. For example, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abYeIixYrbk. Is it possible that X850 works but X800 won't, due to some driver issue or …

Hi and I hope you're all doing well. I currently have a P5KPL-AM/PS motherboard and am looking to build a Win98 rig out of it. I'm looking at some options for medium to high end graphics cards that will work on that motherboard and under Win98. One card I'm looking at is this: Club3D ATI RADEON X800 …

Another quick question if that's okay - is the Radeon X700 very much inferior to X800, or is it comparable?

Ok, so I did a quick Win98SE install on the following hardware: - Gigabyte EP45-DS3L - Core 2 Duo E8400 - 4GB DDR2 - Radeon x800 XL - Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 - Realtek RTL8139 - 24GB Genetic SATA SSD - IDE DVD-RW (using a SATA adapter) - SATA DVD-RW Observations: I added "MaxPhysPage=30000" to …

I concur with the x800 of you go PCIE. Much more stable in Windows 9x than GeForce PCIE cards due to drivers, in my opinion. I suspect the Gigabyte P43 board will give you a smooth experience. I have a Gigabyte P45 board that works very well for me. If I had more time tonight, I'd do a quick and …

Thanks so much to everyone who replied! So I read through the posts and tried to understand as much as I could. I've also binged on PhilComputerLabs' videos and am thinking to choose either of these: 1. Asus P5KPL-AM SE with PCI Radeon X800, SB Live! and either Core2Duo or Celeron 420. 2. Gigabyte …

Any pointers or suggestions? Of course I've abandoned the idea of running NFSMW by now. At this point I'll just be happy with whichever of the above options will give best performance and minimum driver installation headaches. Some motherboards based on the K8M800 chipset suffer from a microcode …

Thanks so much to everyone who replied! So I read through the posts and tried to understand as much as I could. I've also binged on PhilComputerLabs' videos and am thinking to choose either of these: 1. Asus P5KPL-AM SE with PCI Radeon X800, SB Live! and either Core2Duo or Celeron 420. 2. Gigabyte …

Clarifying question - why windows 98? If your favorite games are comfortably in the XP era, you might just want to build an XP machine. Hi , I would stick with intel 865G chipset with native 478 socket . Combined with 3 Ghz pentium 4 prescott/northwood does give reasonable performance and perfect …

I can see why this would seem like a confusing decision. The time period you've chosen represented a great deal of technology change. Graphics devices changed from AGP to PCIe, integrated audio changed from AC97 to HD Audio, Intel moved from Socket 478 to LGA 775, AMD and later Intel introduced 64- …

Games from 2005 are well into the WinXP era, and playing them on a Win98 system seems counter intuitive. But if you do insist, you can use a PCIe Radeon X800 series card and pair it with an LGA775 motherboard and a Core2 Duo CPU. There are a lot of hoops that you'll have to jump through to get that …

Hi all! I'm new both here and to the world of retro hardware so please don't mind my ignorance. I am trying to build a Win98 SE gaming PC that can run up to Hitman Contracts and NFS Most Wanted (2005). Being able to run these games, plus seamless compatibility with Win98 SE, is my goal and it's …