First post, by Baoran
I recently rebuilt the pc I had back in 2004. I still had kept all the old parts, so that made it simple. I had windows xp running back then, but this time I wanted to make it a reasonably fast win98se system.
System specs:
Athlon 64 3500+ 512Mb ram (I heard it is not good idea to have more ram in win98se)
Asus A8V deluxe motherboard
Radeon 9700 pro
I also installed CMI 8738-mx based pci sound card and disabled on board audio. (I only own 2 pci sound cards. The CMI 8738-mx one and sound blaster live value)
After installing win98se, motherboard drivers, catalyst 6.2 and directX, I noticed serious stability issues when running games. Max Payne crashed after few minutes of playing. Deus ex crashed while still in the menu trying to start a new game.
For sake of making sure that no hardware was broken considering that the parts have been in storage for 10 years or so, I also installed windows xp on the same system. Everything was stable in windows xp. The same games I had tried in win98se were working just fine in windows XP.
I would appreciate any ideas on what to try to make the system stable when playing games in win98se.
Edit: Really not sure if this should be in hadware or software section of the forum...