Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2023-07-13, 23:01

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by VDNKh

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Hi, can you share what drivers you used to get the XFX GeForce 7950 GT (PV-T71J-YPE7) to work? Really appreciate it. Cheers I used the unofficial 82.69 drivers and applied RLoew's NVSIZE VBIOS patch to the card before installing the drivers. Note that you need a Windows 98 system with more than 512 …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2023-07-10, 22:49

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by VDNKh

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if you go with an older one, you can avoid this bug Hi do you know for certain such old bios versions for 775Dual or 4CoreDual? For example, thanks to user Repo Man11 we know there are ones for Asus K8V SE Deluxe. The very first driver for 775Dual-880Pro might not have the bug if they were …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-10, 22:16

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by VDNKh

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Thanks for that info VDNKH. The 775Dual VSTA does not appear to be effected by that bug. AGP Texture acceleration is enabled in Dxdiag. Interesting. Can you provide some more info? What BIOS are you using? In the BIOS, what is your AGP Aperture Size set to? Spoiler https://www.legitreviews.com/ …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-10, 17:05

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by VDNKh

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You are probably experiencing the AGP memory bug present in PT880/K8T800 chipsets in Windows 9X. This bug was introduced, in Asus motherboards, by a BIOS update in either BIOS version 1006 or 1007. Version 1005 is confirmed by multiple people to not have the AGP memory bug. Ah, ASUS quality strikes …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-09, 22:08

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Can't say for sure, never had serious issues with Q3 timedemos on Nvidia cards. Well, on AGP cards with fully functional GART driver that is. Systems specs: K8V, A64 3200+, Quadro FX 3000 Under AGP settings tab of the Nv control panel. Only Fast Writes looks to be disabled, and won’t stay enabled …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2023-07-02, 00:36

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Nice, great results 💪💪 This shows that the CPU is always bottlenecking Windows 98. I wonder if a 3rd gen CPU/motherboard can be fully supported, maybe one i7-3770K overclocked core can push this even further with an overclocked 7900GTX. Z68 motherboards could be a good contender for 98 …

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Re: (NEW RECORD) "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build 7900GTX + 4.89GHz E8600 + 2GB DDR2 1066MHz + ASUS Maximus II For

Posted on 2023-06-19, 18:39

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I still prefer my Madness PC (WAY more versatile and far less deadly to components) : 3DMark 01 SE 7800 GTX.png 3DMark 03 v2.jpg More here : LINK I could definitely find a lower stable overclock with more sane voltages, but where's the fun in that? Like I said, I'd only use these voltages and clock …

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Re: NFS Porsche Unleashed freezes on P4 based system

Posted on 2023-06-19, 12:24

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by VDNKh

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Strange, felt for sure this game would run no problem with win98SE installed. My specs: P4 2.4 ghz. 512mb ddr333 Geforce 2 Ultra 64mb Nvidia drivers 45.23 directx 8.1 It starts fine but once in the menu setting up a "driver" it freezes. Strangely it wakes up when I either pull the usb gamepad or …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2023-06-19, 11:44

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by VDNKh

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So what is the overall consensus for those Asrock 775Dual-VSTA & Core4Dual motherboards? Are they good candidates for Windows 98/XP machine? It seems they don't have official Windows 98(SE)/ME support like 775Dual-880Pro and P4Dual-880Pro. But people seem to use them with Windows 98(SE)/ME even …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2023-06-18, 09:07

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Please break my record :) Okay. 5ghz_x58_3dmark99.png 5ghz_x58_3dmark01.png 5ghz_x58_3dmark03.png 4.89GHz E8600, meet my 5.00GHz X5690 with a surprisingly 98 friendly Asus P6T motherboard. Working SATA ports in AHCI mode (thanks to RLoew), Intel PCH chipset drivers ported to 9X (thanks to …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-15, 19:34

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@VDNKh There is still an unresolved VCACHE error. I get a VCACHE protection error on my Ryzen 5950x system even with PATCHMEM and patcher9x. I haven't found a solution yet. Have you tired different PATCHMEM options? Or the SPLIT8MB in AUTOEXEC.BAT? Spoiler PATCHMEM [Options] Options: /A Move AGP …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-15, 00:28

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To get 98 running on the newest CPUs, even virtualized, you need to patch the TBL invalidation bug. After that, 98 will run on pretty much any x86-64 processor as designed. The x86-64 instruction set is backwards compatible all the way down to 16-bit real mode. It's all the hardware around the CPU …

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Re: Help with Ryzen V5500 Win98 build

Posted on 2023-06-07, 22:26

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These crazy Frankenstein builds are so fascinating. If you had another PCI slot you could try a PCI storage controller. They have their own bios so they should be able to handle legacy functions. Many games will allow you to install FMV files on your disc, and some can be configured to play music …

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Re: Help with Ryzen V5500 Win98 build

Posted on 2023-06-07, 20:49

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Hi fellow enthousiasts, I could use some help with my Ryzen V5 5500 build. With this project I have a Ryzen 1200 powered MSI B350 PC-MATE motherboard running, dual booting to either Win98SE or Win10. This board comes with two PCI slots and one holds my V5 5500PCI. The other slot will soon hold some …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-05-22, 17:22

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by VDNKh

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Based on peoples' personal experiences there might be multiple "right" answers. I'm all for period correct but I'm curious why you're saying go for the new stuff Intel. Is it because the old ones are 2nd hand and may break or is there some technology related reason? Laser diodes, and other …

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Re: Asrock 775i65g R3.0 issues

Posted on 2023-03-25, 00:11

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The first 2 processors I tried were a Pentium Dual Core E5200 (SLB9T) and a Core 2 Duo E7200 (SLAPC). Both worked the first time I turned the power on, and they would reboot without problems, but after I powered off, they would not POST again. I know this board takes a bit of time to POST, but …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2023-01-29, 18:03

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As a side note, the DOS Audigy drivers want EMM386, which also straight up freezes the computer. Have to check with HimemX if it is possible to get the DOS side working (not talking about the windows DOS prompt). To get EMM386 to work with a PCI-E card and a SATA drive in RAID mode I used this in …

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Re: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2023-01-28, 01:47

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by VDNKh

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I was sent to this thread from https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1134755#p1134755 . As far as I know, Windows 2000 and better are able to fix up invalid PCI/AGP configurations set up by the BIOS, but Windows 98 relies on the BIOS doing its job correctly. To validate the configuration, I would …

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Re: Asrock 775i65g R3.0 issues

Posted on 2022-12-11, 18:03

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by VDNKh

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The first 2 processors I tried were a Pentium Dual Core E5200 (SLB9T) and a Core 2 Duo E7200 (SLAPC). Both worked the first time I turned the power on, and they would reboot without problems, but after I powered off, they would not POST again. I know this board takes a bit of time to POST, but …

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Re: Best stable VIA chipset driver for ASUS P4V8X-X (PT800 chipset) on Win98SE?

Posted on 2022-11-30, 22:02

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by VDNKh

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But the board is not Asus, this one I have is a Fujitsu Siemens motherboard with K8T800 chipset, does this still have this bug? Cheers, Very likely as it affects all makes of motherboards as far as I know. It's trivial to check just by seeing if you have > 0 bytes of AGP memory in 3DMark01, or in …

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