The only solution I found was to run this on a slower PC - 266MHz worked well.

I never played Theme Hospital before, but it looked fun and I've been trying to give it a go on some original hardware - an 850MHz PIII running Win98 SE with an Nvidia TI4200, Yamaha OPL3 w/ Waveblaster X2GS for MIDI. The original CD contains both a DOS and Windows version of the game. I am able to …

The preset for the GS bank is on a different flash location indeed : see the following overview : preset addresses.png For upload to flash, there is only an upload utility for windows (X2Upload see https://serdaco.com/downloads/X2/?dir=X2_SoftwarePack), and only over USB. The uploaded preset is …

There were CRC errors in the Audigy 2 ZS Install CD in the driver library and on archive.org. I ripped my original install CD and uploaded it to archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/audigy-2-zs-install-cd It would be good to replace the corrupt one in the driver library with a good ISO.

Thanks for the information dionb. Turns out I had one semi-faulty stick that was causing problems with the others. A combination of swapping DIMMs around and troubleshooting them on their own got everything working as indicated by the 815 specs. All DIMMs are operating at full capacity now. I even …

I learned the hard way that my Asus P2B-F and P3B-F motherboards only support the dual-sided, low-density SDRAM (16 chips, 8/side). All the documentation I've read after the fact backs this up. However I thought an Asus TUSL2-C (Intel 815EP chipset with Tualatin support) should also be work properly …

Is there a way to make the X2GS use your presets on startup? I know that it boots up using the GS bank, but it seems that it also boots up using all the defaults effects/EQ/gain/swap settings. It seems that none of my presets are applied unless I run USERBANK.MID and then go back to the GS bank …

I'm putting together a high end P3 rig with a 1.4GHz Tualatin S and I'm looking for some input regarding soundcards. Being from 2001, the tualaking is starting to encroach on the Windows XP era, but I'd rather have the Tualatin than a P4, in which case I might as well just use my modern PC and …

Gave TCPOptimizer a try, the optimized settings didn't improve performance any, they actually made it a bit worse.

Interrupt moderation rate. I would assume it does as the name suggests, limits the number of system interrupts to prevent performance issues with other devices, but fewer interrupts, means less chance for the network card to do its work.

Is there a way to make the X2GS use your presets on startup? I know that it boots up using the GS bank, but it seems that it also boots up using all the defaults effects/EQ/gain/swap settings. It seems that none of my presets are applied unless I run USERBANK.MID and then go back to the GS bank …

Tracked down a working driver for some Intel PRO/1000 cards today. These were tricky to find and would be a nice addition to the Vogons driver library. The first is the driver for Win98 that works for a wide range of Intel Pro/1000 cards - T, MT, CT, and GT. Most versions out there don't support the …

As we all know, network performance under Windows 98 is not known for its speed, but I had an opportunity to test a few different network cards under Windows 98. This isn't a comprehensive analysis of every possible option and scenario, but it did yield some interesting results. My test setup is as …

I have one of each and can't see (or hear any difference). The world may never know.

I have a PNY FX5200 that does not reinitialize on a warm reboot. I am running it in an Asus P2B-F currently with a 600MHz PIII with 100MHz fsb and a 66MHz AGP bus. On a warm reboot the system just hangs. I don't have the post code in front of me, but it is waiting for the graphics card to initialize …

Does the "Creative Music Synth [220]" MIDI driver on a SoundBlaster 16 sound any different than Yamaha YMF-7xx's "OPL-3 SA FM MIDI device" when playing back a MIDI file? I would think that any software/games that address the FM synth directly should sound the same since both cards have a "real" OPL3 …