Probably no help to you, but I would use a geforce 2 Ti or GTS, or Geforce 4 MX460 and stick to DirectX 7 titles. That's just me though!

I think your expectations are misaligned. 3D gaming on Windows 98 can be a frustrating experience. I wasted a ton of money on parts back in 1998-2000.

My personal advice and recommendation: Buy a Voodoo3. The Voodoo3 is a good match for CPU's 500-1000MHz under Win98 (preferably, Second Edition). This is precisely what I paired with the Athlon (Slot A) 800MHz I built in 2000, and finally achieved decent stability. Win98 really is that fragile. The key thing I learned back then - pick your hardware, install the drivers, then leave it alone. Things start going badly once you start swapping out stuff and changing drivers.

You shouldn't expect to run games from 2004 on it though. A separate build with newer hardware and WinXP would be more appropriate for those games.

I highly agree with both of these statements:

Shagittarius wrote on Today, 17:17:

You are bound to find games that won't run on every config for some reason. The best you can do is maintain multiple platforms and hope that it will run on one of them. Or just say bollocks to it all and let it go.

swaaye wrote on Today, 17:53:

I think the OP might just be a bit unaware of how delicate Win9x is. It is very easy to crash this OS. It doesn't have the various process and memory protection techniques of NT. Any misbehaving software or drivers or incompatibilities somewhere can lead to memory corruption and that's it.