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Win98 Games Startup take forever

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First post, by Jackhead

Posted on 2021-06-19, 09:07

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Hi,
i have a strange Problem starting a game on win98se.
Win98se boots normal. When i try start a Game the startup takes forever. When i tab to task Manager i see the application dont react.
It happen on any game i want to start. When i wait 3 min sometimes the game starts . After that when i quit and start the game again it boots directly without issues..
I use a scsi2sd V6 on a Adaptec 2940. In dos 6.22 i have no problems. This happen only in windows.
Anyone have such problems before?
Not sure if this is hardware or software problem at all.
regards
Chris

Win98SE: Asus XG DLS - 1x P3 Xeon SL4XY 900/100/2- SG Voodoo 5 6000 PCI - 1GB RAM ECC- Diamond Monster Sound MX300 - Roland MPU-401AT (Yucatan FX)

Reply 1 of 2, by chinny22

Posted on 2021-06-22, 08:50

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What's the rest of the hardware specs?
Have you installed motherboard drivers?

Not sure what the Adaptec drivers do but a quick search found these, maybe a later version
https://adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eula/licen … php?7800w9x.exe

Does playing dos games from within windows work first time?

Do you have a IDE drive to test with.
My first guess would be that adapter or SD card is the culprit, but it is still a guess at this point

Reply 2 of 2, by Deksor

Posted on 2021-06-22, 09:11

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Also make sure DMA mode is enabled for HDD access (not sure if that's a thing with SCSI but I think it is)

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