Reply 80 of 86, by Sombrero
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ElectroSoldier wrote on 2024-02-22, 18:39:Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2024-02-22, 09:40:ElectroSoldier wrote on 2024-02-22, 09:11:I also have a device manager that has no exclamation marks but performance in some/most games is poor compared to a P4 system.
Is your system using a VIA chipset with an AGP graphics card by any chance? There's a known bug with certain VIA chipsets which halves AGP performance under Win98. Also, using more than 2GB RAM cripples Win98 on some chipsets, including the Intel P35 which I'm using.
Otherwise, I don't really see how a Core 2 CPU can be slower than a Pentium 4, assuming both are running at similar clocks.
VIA with a PCIe slot and a 7600GS.
I had massive issues with PCIe 6800 GT with every driver I tried on Win98SE which led me to conclude NVIDIA 6x.xx - 8x.xx drivers sucked hard. I had issues even under Win2k. Only 93.71 under WinXP worked well with almost everything.
Meanwhile ATI X700 has been chugging along just fine under Win98SE, even though those cards have their own shortcomings too.