First post, by buckeye
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This is my latest W98 system - see sig with V2 sli. Been having all kinds of lockups/freezes in games:
Quake2 The Reckoning: runs the startup scenes but try messing with video options it freezes just before starting a game. Vanilla Quake2
and Ground Zero run ok.
Janes WWII Fighters: In options menus the mouse becomes unresponsive - can't click on anything, weird. Once in game it seems ok via glide mode but looks pretty rough.
European Air War: Try switching to glide mode but it "black screens" before starting game but cntrl-alt-del recovers. D3D works ok.
Incoming, Rogue Squadron, MechWarrior3, NFS3-Hot Pursuit all work fine. So far all I've done to help things is move up from Dx7 to Dx8 and patch the games which seemed to help Quake2. Other things I'm looking into:
1. Reformat and start over with Dx6.
2. Try FastVoodoo drivers versus latest 3DFX ref.
3. Try latest drivers for Aureal Vortex2.
4. Ditch the Asus board and go with Intel SE440BX-2.
From what I can see, the earlier games cause the most problems so maybe that's why some of you have multiple iterations of W98 systems? If anyone can think of something else to try before starting from scratch please let me know, thanks!
Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Asus V7700 GF2 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W