After a cold boot, what happens when you run the Direct3D hardware test from the dxdiag utility?

PD2JK wrote on 2026-05-22, 06:45:

After a cold boot, what happens when you run the Direct3D hardware test from the dxdiag utility?

That's something i have not tested till now i will test it and reply to you. Thanks

let us know 😀 its a nice system from the specs, and Nvidia Riva TNT 2 M64 32 mb will give great late 90's performance for 3d games . Might be a drive problem though, there are so many drivers and versions for any given card

PD2JK wrote on 2026-05-22, 06:45:

After a cold boot, what happens when you run the Direct3D hardware test from the dxdiag utility?

I tested the DirectX D3D
Bad news
I got 5 to 6 frames then my system froze

gerry wrote on 2026-05-22, 10:26:

let us know 😀 its a nice system from the specs, and Nvidia Riva TNT 2 M64 32 mb will give great late 90's performance for 3d games . Might be a drive problem though, there are so many drivers and versions for any given card

Sure i would keep you posted

Can you test the card in some other system, a bit more modern one perhaps?
Because it could also be the mainboard lacking to supply enough juice on the AGP port. 440LX is first gen AGP, maybe the mainboards' design wasn't calculated for the more power hungry cards.

Which mainboard exactly are we talking about?

Which version of Detonator are you using? Try version 30.82.

https://theretroweb.com/drivers/1233

PD2JK wrote on 2026-05-22, 19:15:

Can you test the card in some other system, a bit more modern one perhaps?
Because it could also be the mainboard lacking to supply enough juice on the AGP port. 440LX is first gen AGP, maybe the mainboards' design wasn't calculated for the more power hungry cards.

Which mainboard exactly are we talking about?

I have only one system which supports agp rest all are p3 and PCI only
Motherboard is a ATC 6130 or A-trend 6130.

dominusprog wrote on 2026-05-22, 19:41:

Which version of Detonator are you using? Try version 30.82.

https://theretroweb.com/drivers/1233

Current driver version are 6.31 from phils computer lab
I will try detonator driver and let you know.

hope the Celeron is not Coppermine 😀 read couple of stories on Vogons about 440LX refusing to function with Coppermine CPU for some reason.

dominusprog wrote on 2026-05-22, 19:41:

Which version of Detonator are you using? Try version 30.82.

https://theretroweb.com/drivers/1233

Did not work?

Sas wrote on 2026-05-22, 06:28:

Recently i finished building a Win 98 pc with the following config Intel Celeron Processor Intel 440LX Chipset 64MB RAM Ensoniq […]
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Recently i finished building a Win 98 pc with the following config
Intel Celeron Processor
Intel 440LX Chipset
64MB RAM
Ensoniq Sound Card (Creative CT 4810)
Windows 98 QuickInstall
80gb Seagate HDD
Some CD drive

After all the installation process (including graphics driver)
I am unable to start a game. For Example when i start Quake 2 it gets stuck at the game loading screen, similar issues for other games.
There is something wrong with the Graphics Card, these are my options
1. Change the capacitors on the Graphics Card, although the capacitors look and feel very fine
2. Buy a new AGP Graphics card.

Please recommend me what should i do.

Update today I installed so many drivers that i needed to reinstall windows again and I thought let try the original installation CD instead of quckinstall, well it got suck right before the file copy process and my screen was filled with graphical glitches, ithink the glitches are of the memory variety.
Tommorow I will try a sis 63xx PCI graphics card a very weak gpu.
Can anybody tell me is there a software like withchery for other non voodoo gpus.

Without a known good working card its hard to narrow down if its the gpu, agp slot, or some other quirk of the board/bios.

AGP of this era was just introduced, sometimes buggy, and did not offer much of a speed benefit over PCI.

Also that M64 is not very performant compared to contemporaries so its no big loss.

afaik 440LX AGP is as fast and compatible (minus problems with AGP when using Coppermine CPUs) as 440BX.
TNT2 M64 pretty much runs at TNT speeds.
"NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 vs TNT vs TNT2" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnT2hPClb-0

Has the RAM used in this system been tested by something like Memtest86 yet?

TheMLGladiator wrote on 2026-05-24, 02:24:

Has the RAM used in this system been tested by something like Memtest86 yet?

The system before this incident was working fine except for the graphics.

drosse1meyer wrote on 2026-05-23, 22:56:

Without a known good working card its hard to narrow down if its the gpu, agp slot, or some other quirk of the board/bios.

AGP of this era was just introduced, sometimes buggy, and did not offer much of a speed benefit over PCI.

Also that M64 is not very performant compared to contemporaries so its no big loss.

The card looks kind of brand new with no visible signs of capacitor degradation.
It's very hard to source new agp motherboards from where I live.
And the graphics card I have to source from websites who deal with server equipment, many times they don't have the gpu which they put on their website.

Sas wrote on 2026-05-24, 03:50:

The system before this incident was working fine except for the graphics.

so "Has the RAM used in this system been tested by something like Memtest86 yet"? 😀

My cursed graphics card.