Sombrero wrote on 2022-11-30, 12:29:

chinny22 wrote on 2022-11-30, 12:17:

Not sure what to tell you? I've got Audigy 2 cards working happily on 3 Win9x builds, 2 of which are BX systems Asus P2B-DS […]
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Not sure what to tell you? I've got Audigy 2 cards working happily on 3 Win9x builds, 2 of which are BX systems
Asus P2B-DS
Dell/Intel SE440BX-3
Asus P4P800

Agree the Live is an easier install under Win9x but as OP already has the card and EAX4 may be useful for the XP side of things

Entirely possible I was just unlucky and the board and the card just didn't like each other or something.

Via 686B southbridge by any chance?

Come to think of it, that's a relevant point for OP too - what motherboard are you intending to use that AXP2000+ on? You can find the 686B on a lot of boards that would accept that chip, both Via KT133A/266(A) and AMD760. That's a red flag for Creative SBLive or Audigy cards.

Still I've become a bit wary of recommending Audigy 2 cards for Win98. If you are having issues with the only VXD driver there arent any other versions to try (as far as I know).

OP said he wanted the Audigy for XP, not 98SE. It's perfectly possible to not install any driver for the card under 98SE and just disable it. Shouldn't cause any harm then.

Shponglefan wrote on 2022-11-30, 16:42:

Errius wrote on 2022-11-30, 16:29:

Stock Windows ME runs fine with 1 GB RAM. I have a dual boot ME/XP P4 rig with 1 GB RAM and a GF4.

How compatible is ME with hardware like Vortex2 (A3D) based cards?

I was under the impression official support for those cards ended with Windows 98.

https://members.optusnet.com.au/kirben/faq_vortex2.html

Apparently the 9x drivers work in ME, but hibernation/standby is broken.

dionb wrote on 2022-11-30, 23:02:

Sombrero wrote on 2022-11-30, 12:29:

Entirely possible I was just unlucky and the board and the card just didn't like each other or something.

Via 686B southbridge by any chance?

Nope, Intel 440BX board so some Intel southbridge.

Wouldn't be the first time I've had trouble with a intel board and a creative card, X-Fi didn't get along very well with a Gigabyte H67M board earlier this year. Disabling CPU power saving features in BIOS got it working better, which was odd, but didn't fix it entirely.

Id say thats about right regarding fully patched XP.

With 1gb total of ram (two 512 DDR sticks) in dual channel it will run nicely.

However that leaves little free ram for applications to run without paging the hdd which will significantly hurt performance.

1.5gbs would be comfortable however youre running 3 sticks of ram then. and 3 sticks is not optimal.

Most optimal is with only 2 sticks of ram in dual channel mode. So 2gb ram. I don't reccomend running 4 sticks of ram becasue it stresses the northbridge and also makes memory overclocking hard.

with 2gb you should be able to turn Page file off completly and not run out of resources while running any period correct software.

98 is another story and you cannot turn page file off, becasue poorly writted software wants to see it or use it even if it never needs it.