First post, by Cain05
Greetings! I put together some parts for a windows 98 machine to play some older games. I have it set up and running, but now I'm experiencing some stuttering when I play 3D games (NHL 2001, MOHAA, Quake 3, GTA3) and it doesn't seem to matter which game I try. Non 3D games like Diablo or any of the DOS games I've tried don't seem to have this issue. Basically, the game will play fine for about 30 seconds, then there's a sudden drop in frame rate, then it's fine for another 30 seconds or so. Here's my build:
Athlon XP 2200+
Asus A7V8X-MX
2 x 256MB DDR PC333
GeForce 3 (Dell OEM) /w drivers 45.23
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 /w VXD drivers
400W PSU
I haven't played around with other drivers for the GPU, but I don't think that's the issue otherwise the games probably wouldn't work. All the rest of the drivers are the latest I could find for windows 98 and device manager isn't complaining about any unknown devices. I have it hooked up to a Samsun BX2250 via DVI to HDMI cable. The monitor can also accept an analog VGA cable, but I don't think that's the problem either. The windows install is only a couple days old and after I set up a bunch of games I defragged both hard drives in the system. I don't really know what else to do at this point, so any suggestions would be welcome! Thanks in advance.