Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2024-08-25, 21:07

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One more update: After some more testing, it looks like the OpenGL library from Catalyst 3.2 (release 4.14.01.9088, dated 02/28/2003) also works with Windows 95. I didn't observe any measurable performance difference from the library in Catalyst 3.1 with my Radeon 9250. It is newer if that matters …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2024-08-21, 20:45

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Amazing investigation guys. Has anybody compared the performance of these cards using Win95 vs. Win98? My Radeon 9600 TX (a factory overclocked 9500 Pro) loses about 25-30% of its performance with Windows 95 instead of Windows 98 on the same system (a Core 2 Duo X6800) depending on the application. …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2024-08-20, 08:19

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Amazing investigation guys. Has anybody compared the performance of these cards using Win95 vs. Win98? Have not really done this, but for all intents and purposes, cards starting with Radeon 8500 and 9x00 are so fast anyway, that it probably only serves academic interest to do so. These are GF3 and …

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Re: Windows 98 install frozen with Pentium 3 1000 and Aopen AX34

Posted on 2024-08-19, 08:55

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I'm using a SATA hard drive using a sata to IDE converter, and it is connected as the master. I only use that hard drive, it has 4 partitions, for the different OS. And as I told you, it worked perfectly for all of them but 98. 98 is in the third primary partition. I can't pass the memtest now …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2024-08-13, 11:14

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Sure, here it is. I have only used this library with Catalyst 3.1 (where it originated), 3.4, and 3.5. Nothing newer, yet. If you're going to try a Catalyst driver that new, you could even go with a PCIe-based Radeon. Shoot, I might try Catalyst 6.2 on Windows 95 with my Radeon X800 if you can get …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2024-08-12, 12:51

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Sorry to necro an older thread, but this thread inspired me to try to tackle this problem. ... Amazingly, OpenGL started to work as soon as I replaced the library file with the one from version 3.1 (ATIO9XXX.DLL). That was the key! The control panel app from Catalyst 3.1 also installs and works …

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Re: Windows 95 memory management issues with Pentium Pro and 2, and USB supplement 1216?

Posted on 2024-07-29, 10:25

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I've been reading that 95 has memory problems in certain cases when using a PPro or P2, and that apparently USB supplement 1216 (which ships with OSR2.5) fixes it. I can find nothing official from MS about that supplement containing the memory fix. The KB article simply says to use Windows 98. …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2024-07-28, 21:23

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Martli wrote on 2024-07-27, 00:12: I’ve just done a clean install of my win95 rig using this method. It’s fantastic and a big improvement on my previous install. Very snappy. Thanks a bunch for such a comprehensive guide! I'm happy to hear it worked for you!

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Re: Which NVIDIA drivers for Windows 98SE machine?

Posted on 2024-07-05, 22:36

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Sounds like I will need to post some benchmarks of various driver releases at some point! I'm sure people here would thank you for it. If I may be so bold, post results for some actual period games rather than just the 3Dmark score. Those tend to not tell the entire story, I've learned. Anyway, if …

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Re: Which NVIDIA drivers for Windows 98SE machine?

Posted on 2024-07-05, 22:22

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I am going to build my first retro machine to run 9x programs (as well as Windows 3.x programs within Windows 98SE). So far, I have decided on: DFI CS62-TC motherboard (as it has Tualatin support out of the box and supports AGP) Pentium III 1266S "Tualatin" CPU (the 1333, 1400 and 1400S are too …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2024-07-03, 14:38

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But even the AMD 5x86 can not play video files or MP3’s WinPlay3 can play 128 kbps MP3 files on the Am5x86. Mine skipped on those even overclocked to 160MHz, back in the day. Maybe I had not tweaked memory or cache timings well enough or maybe this was due to my board/chipset implementation. Others …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2024-06-27, 20:40

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Hi, please can you tell me which update is the one that makes the content of the folder visible when dragging ir on the screen? I need to install just that one to avoid the others to break my os language It's Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 which gives you that checkbox in Display Properties... …

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Re: Problems after install windows 95 OSR21

Posted on 2024-06-27, 18:44

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DCOM does have to be installed for DX8, but you don't need to install Internet Explorer in order to get the DCOM update. You're probably missing the Common Controls update, or something else that is a dependency for the control panel. These later nVidia driver packages became unwieldy monsters so …

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Re: Problems after install windows 95 OSR21

Posted on 2024-06-27, 10:43

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I'm installing windows 95 OSR21 on this machine: - Tualatin 1400S - DFI CA64-TC - 512 RAM - Gforce 4 MX 440 I found the next issues on Windows 95: 1. After installing DirectX 8.0 it gives me this error: "DirectX Requires DCOM". Is this important? will it generate problems in the future? 2. After …

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Re: 3Com 509b network adapters fail in a Windows 95 486 box

Posted on 2024-06-20, 20:43

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As a follow up - and to others who may have the same problem, the Comcast EMT that I was issued contains 4 ethernet ports. 3 x 1Gbps and 1 x 2.5Gbps. Where it was positioned, it was so dark that I could not see the red line, indicating the 2.5Gbps port. The 2.5 port does not work with 10BASE-T …

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Re: Does Windows Me halt the CPU when it's idle?

Posted on 2024-06-20, 19:02

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Just an academic curiosity - if some of these early systems had buggy or bad ACPI implementations, and Windows disables ACPI for this reason - could there be a potential downside to forcing APCI enabled? I'm curious as to which way I would go in the future. If Rain only executes hlt, and ACPI …

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Re: Does Windows Me halt the CPU when it's idle?

Posted on 2024-06-19, 21:51

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Just run Rain or one of its contemporary rivals to execute halt - and remain blissfully happy with Win98SE?

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Re: 3Com 509b network adapters fail in a Windows 95 486 box

Posted on 2024-06-18, 19:30

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I just bypass the ISP provided router entirely (supply my own) or (if it needs to be in the middle because it's a modem-router or something like that) set it into bridge mode so it can't mess everything up, then deploy a real router directly connected to it. It's the only way to be sure. 😎

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-18, 07:52

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What are your thoughts about the VIA KT 333 family of chipsets? Had an ASUS A7V333 and it was a great companion (along with DDR SD-RAM) to my GF4Ti4200 and AthlonXP 2200+. If you're going with a pre-XP Athlon CPU, probably KT333+/DDR/GF4 are already overkill. edit: Just a quick note that for …

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Re: Data transfer: How to connect Win98se (or even 3.1) PCs to a Win11 PC using Windows functionality?

Posted on 2024-06-17, 19:43

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After my frustration with USB 2.0 cards has reached saturation, I am trying to follow the advice given here in several threads for data transfer problems: Go through network. OK. First attempt was to use the USB port on the router for a USB stick that everyone can access. But NO!, Win 11 laughs at …

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