what drivers are you using

I'm using these drivers, they seem to be the only ones that "work" (notice how the title bar has the gradient, the card is actually working fine...)

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/archive/radeonaiw-98me

I got them suggested by Sammy in this thread: How do I get working sound on MS-DOS 7.10 from internal chipset ?

Since I made this thread, this same issue happened with some other games aswell, for example Toyland Racing, TOCA Touring Car Championship and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.

While other games look "sped up", I ain't sure if that's caused by the graphics card aswell...

what happens when you run dxdiag.exe

I get the following info:

Lemme translate... (next time I'll install Windows 98SE in English, I don't actually care about the language, but it's gonna be better for troubleshooting 🤣)

Current Date/Time: 1 Jan 2005, 02:56:58 (whatever, I haven't set it yet 🤣)
Computer name: WINDOWS-98
Operative System: Windows 98 4.10
Language: Italian (international settings: Italian)
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow
Memory: 1016MB RAM
Paging file: 56 MB utilized, 975 MB free
DirectX version: DirectX 6.1a (4.06.03.0518)

Do you want some other tab in particular ?

this

run the tests

Here you go 😁

translation (!!!)

whatever, name, manufacturer... chip type: RADEON X300 SE (0x5B60) Rev 0
DAC type internal
Total memory approx: 3.0 MB (but... it's supposed to be 128MB !!!)
Current view mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit)
and my monitor, SyncMaster.

Main driver: ATI2DRAG.DRV, version 4.15.01.9165 (English)
Certified: No
Mini VDD: ATI2VXAG.VXD
VDD: *vdd, *vflated

DirectX features, ain't sure why Direct3D isn't available...

and the notes say this:

1File ATI2DRAG.DRV not certified. The file wasn't put under the tests in Microsoft's laboratories for the quality check for the hardware for Windows. Contact the manufacturer of the peripheral to verify the availability of a certified driver.
2Results of the DirectDraw tests: successful.

so you dont get the spinning cube ?
ps: does this help ?
http://www.desilva.biz/hw/via4in1.html

The download link on that site redirected me to an online store for lights 🤣

By the way I do see the spinning cube in the Direct3D test (hardware acceleration test), but it does it "rendered by software" and doesn't actually use my graphics card...

nevermind, the link now worked, but how can I know which one to download ?

Do you do need a via 4 in 1 driver you have checked ???????

Well, actually the only 2 things remaining with an yellow circle with the exclamation point are "Extension system card for the BIOS ACPI" (ain't sure if it's exactly like that in an actual English Windows 98SE 🤣) and "Motherboard resources", the latter appears 4 times and only 1 has the symbol on it.

There's no "4in1" anywhere in my device manager list, so I dunno !!! 😐

try these graphics drivers
http://download.cnet.com/ATI-Catalyst-Display … n&hlndr=1&dlm=0

do you know what motherboard you have ?

Yeah, it's an ASUS A8V-XE.

I'll now try these drivers

Well... the installer has the same name (or similar) as the one I used, let's see if it does some kind of update...

your board is too new for win 9x and your gfx card is from 2004
you should be running xp as there are no win9x drivers for your board only xp

xp drivers
http://www.asus.com/support/Download/1/21/3/3/17/

Is there a reason you need to run 9x instead of xp

Yeah I know... I was able to "hack in" Windows 98 with the PCI128 sound card and those GPU drivers kinda work... there are still possibilities to get Windows 98, it seems...

and yes, I tried using XP in there, but it doesn't run 16-bit and DOS applications as Windows 98 does... I also can't do the fancy Windows 98 "active desktop" that I loved back in the day, nor I can switch to MS-DOS mode in XP...

(for DOSBox I just use my main, modern PC, no ? What's the point in building a vintage Win9x PC to use DOSBox on XP ? 🤣)

Anyway, I installed those drivers, restarted but nothing at all changed...

do any direct 3d games work or just opengl games ?

Im guessing that becuse no motherboard drivers are installed the agp bus is acting just like a pci bus
eg no agp texturing therefore you will get no direct 3d maybe a pci card would work (just a theory)

if you have to have 9x dual boot and use xp for games

after installing the via 4in1 you should reinstall the gfx driver to see any difference; you may also have to manually enable hardware aceleration;
imho xp is too much of a hog for this but the oldest drivers onthe asus site are for win2k only;

I don't like Win2k at all, it doesn't even have the MS-DOS prompt !!!

I dunno which 4in1 VIA drivers I should download from that "viaarena" site Davros sent me to earlier

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do any direct 3d games work or just opengl games ?

Im guessing that becuse no motherboard drivers are installed the agp bus is acting just like a pci bus
eg no agp texturing therefore you will get no direct 3d maybe a pci card would work (just a theory)

if you have to have 9x dual boot and use xp for games

The X300SE is PCI-E x16, not AGP...

i dont think there are any 4 in 1 drivers for that chipset for win 9x
but if you want to take a risk try these
www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/via_hy ... n_9x).html