b0700 wrote on 2020-06-14, 10:53:
I am using P5b-VM se Asus board with G965 chipset and drivers from msfn for ich8 on windows 98. I have GT6600 and also tested 6800 vanilla PCIe nvidia cards on it. infact i have 4 of these all pci. I used the 81.98 driver from nvidia and replaced the ini from a thread on this site into the extracted driver location on c: . This installed the driver without a hitch and i got some decent scores on 3dmarks. all 3d works and there is no video issue whatsoever. I am using core2 duo processor E5800 and also tested E8400 as i have 2 identical motherboards (1 for backup in case 1 fries in future.) do not use guru3d drivers they dont get full screen 3d acceleration
pci express works perfectly fine in windows 98 i dont know why one would face a problem. unless you are using very new boards. if i can help i will with any more info, please ask.
hello, i believe i have the answer to why he is having issues with his geforce 6200.
i highly recommend to avoid all turbocache models of the geforce 6 series in particularly with the NV44 and higher gpus with turbocache. (even my geforce 7200gs with the g72 gpu with turbocache has the same problems that i will mention)
i've tested various northbridge pcie chipsets like VIA p4m890 p4m900 intel 915 945 g31 p35 g41 and SiS 661 662 672, and the turbocache cards all behave the same in windows 95 & 98
with the screen freezing and or blanking out for a couple seconds whenever something GUI related is occurring on screen. Even worse that on all VIA chipsets; theses graphics cards are highly unstable and will randomly freeze or cause a protection error while already on the desktop.
funnily enough these cards work okayish when 3d & GUI acceleration is disabled in windows but thats defeating the purpose of using these cards.
when running any 3d apps whether Direct3D or OpenGL they all seem to freeze the pc after just a few seconds ...well I've only tested 10 games in which only three were direct3d ...so kinda take my word for with grain of salt i guess.
i believe that b0700 is having better success because they're probably using an NV43 pcie geforce without turbocache as i also too tested my quadro fx which has the same gfx chipset and the gpu works fine in windows 98 albeit with the same known limitations with all geforce 6 series in win98. (yes including the PCI geforce 6200 has the same limitations e.g early direct3d game issues and missing early gfx features support)
So in short, i suggest you all probably stick with the geforce fx or early series because of all the issues that are plagued with on windows 98 driver side which are not even worth it. even the early geforce 6 series like the NV40 agp geforce 6800 which was NVidia's last to officially support with their early and late win9x drivers; has a ton of issues with alot of games and being somewhat unstable.
But if you absolutely need an NVidia PCIe gpu for win9x, i would go for the non turbocache models of the 6000 & 7000 series geforce because they seem to work fine without issues unlike the turbocache ones.
I would personally recommend something like the radeon x550 x600 series or heck the x800 pcie & agp gpus as these have no compatibility issues whatsoever and can work with early direct 3d games minus some features missing like 8bit paletted textures & table fog. (then again... geforce's after the fx series don't have these features either as i mentioned above)