Personally in my experience nothing messes up a machine like installing older versions of Direct X when it comes to DX 8 and before. I've never had a problem installing the latest OS appropriate version and always telling installers to skip DX installation.

If you dont do that eventually you will find yourself reformatting and starting over.

swaaye wrote:

I've found that installing anything newer than DirectX 7 on 98SE/ME with a NV card causes instability. Sometimes DirectX will not function again after you quit a game (until you reboot). For more details on my fun here look up my Homeworld thread.

I've settled on DirectX 7 being the newest I install unless I use a card other than NV.

Doesn't that depend on the NVIDIA card in question?

What I've found is that a GeForce 6800 Ultra + DirectX version under 9.0c = disaster, even for games designed around DX6 or DX7.

I'll experiment more with it as I get this system set up properly. (Trying to just keep it stable running Win98SE before I dive deep into the games.)

On the other hand, when I had my K6-2 box, the SiS 530 on the motherboard lost DirectDraw acceleration when updated beyond DX7, making a slow graphics chip downright painfully slow.

Jorpho wrote:

tincup wrote:

8.0a was the last version officially supported by W98

I assume you mean 95.

yes..., and 9.0c for W98.

Jorpho wrote:

elfuego wrote:

What can be done for any computer that fails to boot without any possible boot mediums?

Fixing it from there might take seconds;

...but how? Now I'm really confused 🙄 😕