First post, by Elia1995
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I had this Pentium 3 with Windows 98SE going on for a while, everything worked fine and dandy, Windows games running perfectly with my GeForce FX5500, no issue at all with the AGP GPU, but the MS-DOS mode suddenly didn't work anymore, I couldn't reboot into MS-DOS mode because the screen would go black and I had to hard reset it.
So yesterday I formatted it and reinstalled Windows 98SE, I then installed all drivers, rebooted, the graphics card drivers I always install are the 56.64, because the 81.98 are garbage. The graphics card seems to work just fine, I could set the resolution of the desktop to 1920x1080, set it in true colors 32-bit, in DXDIAG the hardware acceleration is enabled, I then tried to install Sim Theme Park World, it didn't run.
I then installed Toy Story 2, sometimes the graphics settings selection screen would pop up, with the nVidia GeForce FX5500 detected, rendering method "Hardware" and I could set any resolution I'd like, but as soon I press enter to confirm, the game would crash to desktop without any error.
If I try to open it up for the second time, the error "Unable to find a suitable device" would pop up.
As AGP driver, I've installed the VIA 4-in-1 4.37, which worked just fine with the previous installation before I formatted !!!
I've been formatting and reinstalling Windows 98SE since yesterday, this morning I reinstalled it again and I'm now at the 5th reinstallation in 2 days, but before installing ANY driver, I decided to post this here and wait.
I also tried another FX5500, but the same thing happens, so it's a driver issue and not an hardware issue.
The other AGP cards I have are either worse, thus worthless to exchange with the FX5500, or without Windows 98 drivers (the 7300GT, for example, I can't find any driver for Windows 98 for it).
Ah, I forgot, when dragging the windows, I also saw a lot of tearing after installing the drivers, yesterday, which didn't ever happen before, not even when the drivers aren't installed at all !!!
Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11
Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard