RandomStranger wrote on 2023-02-13, 08:42:
W98 third party support was dropped very fast after XP released. 2006 is the release of the G80 GPU and the G70 already wasn't supported and for the NV40 Windows 98 was an afterthought. Back then many people adopted XP even on Pentium 2 era PCs.
Hi, I don't deny this. On the other hand, both Windows 98SE and XP topped out with DirectX 9 support.
- Sure, a few of these later XACT DLLs and other updates in the DirectX 9.0c days
may have not been available to 98SE/Me platform anymore.
But at its core, both systems had about the same game support.
Some gamers in the early 2000s even made a swear on Windows 98SE, claiming it would give them more FPS over XP.
Edit: What Windows 98SE made shine is its library of obsolete VXD drivers from the Windows 95 days.
Windows 98SE was very legacy friendly, thus.
It could handle ISA era hardware better (say, AWE64 style soundcard) and could share two GPUs on a single AGP slot.
The ATI Rage Fury Maxx used that concept, afaik.
Such hardware didn't work properly on Windows NT systems.
Edit: I'm just saying.. Let's don't worry, I won't go off-topic any further by mentioning Windows 98SE here. 🙂
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