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First post, by Octavius

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Good day folks,
I have recently installed the ATI 9250 drivers on Windows 98SE. The system recognizes the graphics card, and I can adjust the display settings to 32-bit colour and resolution to 1024x768. However, every time I start the system, I get the following error:

WARNING:
Graphics bus failure: The display drivers has discovered incompatibilities with your system and is unable to use any accelerated graphics rendering.

DxDiag Error

Error: Problem getting extra display info, result code = x88760249 (Can't create DC) Chip Type: RADEON 9200 Series AGP (0x5960) […]
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Error: Problem getting extra display info, result code = x88760249 (Can't create DC)
Chip Type: RADEON 9200 Series AGP (0x5960) Rev 1
DAC Type: Internal
Approx. Total Memory 3.0 MB

Main Driver: AIT2DRAG.DRV
Version> 4.15.01.9165 (English)
Mini VDD: ATIVXAG.VXD

DirectDraw: Acceleration Enabled
Direct3D: No Acceleration Available

Notes:
The file ATI2DRAG.DRV is uncertified, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Lab.

After installing EVEREST I gathered the following information as well:

North Bridge: Intel 82443BX
AGP Aperture Size 64 MB
Supported AGP 1x, 2x
Fast Write: Not Supported
Side Band Addressing: Supported, Enabled

Problem
Agp Aperture Size is more than half of the system memory size. This may cause performance penalty

AGP 2x: ATI Radeon 9250 (RV280)
Memory Size: 256MB

The motherboard is a MEB-VM (Intel 440BX Chipset)

Any ideas or suggestions?
Thank you.

Last edited by Octavius on 2024-02-04, 12:53. Edited 1 time in total.

W98SE: ASUS MEB-VM, Celeron 333, 64MB, ATI 3D Rage Pro, Asound Express PCI, 4.3 GB IDE
W2K/XP: ECS 741GX-M, AMD Athlon XP 2200+, 512MB, 6800GT AGP, 80GB IDE
Vista: FOXCONN G33M02, C2D E8400, 4GB, 8800GT, 120GB SSD, 250 GB SATA

Reply 1 of 1, by Octavius

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Solution:
The problem was fixed by installing Directx 9.0c it seems.
Now D3D acceleration is enabled by default.

I shall test some games and let you all know if the card is working well on Win98se.

Edit 1:

All games are working fine.

W98SE: ASUS MEB-VM, Celeron 333, 64MB, ATI 3D Rage Pro, Asound Express PCI, 4.3 GB IDE
W2K/XP: ECS 741GX-M, AMD Athlon XP 2200+, 512MB, 6800GT AGP, 80GB IDE
Vista: FOXCONN G33M02, C2D E8400, 4GB, 8800GT, 120GB SSD, 250 GB SATA