I couldn't find an active link to Tom2D, but I ran 3DMark99 at 800x600x16 z16 TB. I got a GPU score of 27,959 3DMarks with the x800 XL at stock speed. Not too shabby for Windows 98. For fun, I also ran it at 1920x1080x32 z24 TB. I got a score of 19,407 3DMarks. I think it's running properly. The …

I made a screen capture of the display properties of my Radeon X800 XL in Windows 98 SE. The AGP Texture entry in the DXDIAG.EXE shows "Enabled", but I don't know if that has any significance for the PCI-E drivers. The X800 is a native PCI-E device, so I suppose ATI wrote the driver with the …

Probably because PCI-E is running in PCI mode -133 MB/s share for all device include discs, although some very modern MB has multiple parallel PCI buses to improve that.. AGP is up to 2048 MB/s (AGP 8x) and there even some better AGP specific code which give you than more much more brute force. …

What results of the Tom2D benchmark are the norm for PCI-E video cards under Win9x? With AGP video cards, I get 15000 byls, and with PCI-E cards (I tried different nVidia cards with different drivers) about 5000, that is, three times less! I thought, maybe I'm just missing something in the system, …

PCI-E works in Windows 98 without any special OS drivers because the OS thinks the device is on a 32-bit PCI bus. You will need drivers for the device (video card, USB, etc.) to get it working. As well as AGP video cards by default, without a chipset of the GART driver (For Intel, this is PCIMP.PCI …

What set of drivers and OS updates should be used with PCI-E cards under Windows 98 for best results? What results do you get for example in the Tom2D benchmark? Do I need to forcibly enable PCIMP.PCI (For AGP cards, for example, it is used, significantly increasing performance.) Or maybe there is …

D3D in Half-Life is not that bad, but OpenGL is faster and more stable, I guess owing to the engine's roots in id tech 2. Not sure what was going on with that G400 there. With OpenGL you don't get overbright lighting on textures (a type of early bloom lighting effect). I would rather play it in D3D …

Somehow, purely out of sporting interest, I launched one popular virus on my home machine running Windows 98 [4.10.1998] and here is what came of it: https://c.radikal.ru/c40/2001/02/e3a331a6198e.png For comparison, this is what happened when the same virus was launched, but under different systems: …

NT 2D performance is much much better than any 9x What tools and on what did you test it? On all former and currently existing dual-boot machines (9x \ XP), rendering the interface for 9x is much faster.

Does this marvelous player play streaming video (YouTube, Twitch.tv)? I am using VLC Player under Windows 98 for these purposes at this time, but I am somewhat annoyed by its voracity (Any version from 2.0.0 and higher to 2.2.8 inclusive, earlier ones play Twitch.TV smartly, but choppy. Apparently …

The main problem of Windows XP is that the "classic themes" are not perceived in them the same way as in Windows 95 and other 9x similar systems, due to lower 2D performance under absolutely equal conditions. That is why it is so pleasant to work in 9x systems. Since updating the interface elements …

Video report about the problem: http://b.radikal.ru/b35/2001/bf/c5281d300b87.gif As you can see, the problem is really in the program itself. For some reason, it stumbles when the amount of RAM is more than 999MB

You should actually limit the RAM for Windows 9x to 512 MB, as 9x can not correctly handle more than that. Just checked on Windows XP SP3 with 512 MB - Aureal Minerva starts the same way without a failure, but with 1024 MB it’s gone. So, the problem is still not in Windows 98 (and its features of …

Hello. My name is Evgeniy. Since 2014, I periodically visit your wonderful resource. But only now, for the first time in these years, I could not find a solution to my problem myself and was forced to ask for help here. I use vanilla Windows 98 [4.10.1998] and I have a problem with Aureal Minerva ( …