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  1. Have you tried that GPU under other OS like Windows XP? Maybe the card is faulty.

    What are your PC specs?

    If you have more than 512MB of RAM, try limiting it by using the MaxPhysPage=20000 parameter in SYSTEM.INI under [386enh] section.

  2. @LoneCrusader

    What drivers you've used to test the HDAUDIO device, the generic HDAUDIO.SYS or the Realtek one?

    As for the Win3x driver, check here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180329132229/http://win3x.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=Pascal&num=1502071336&action=display&start=165

    Haven't tested it myself, last time I've checked it caused startup delay and did nothin.

     

  3. Sorry, couldn't find drivers for XP, Only Windows 7+. It's an Intel NIC commonly found on the higher end 100-series motherboards, unlike cheap Realtek chip like on my ASRock H110M-DVS R3.0 motherboard which works with Windows 98 SE+.
    Dietmar, if you can share the XP drivers for the Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V chip, it would be helpful. It is a simple INF mod, or is the driver modded itself?

  4. I can't really think of any other software that is reasonably up to date in terms of modern hardware detection that works on Windows 98 SE, other than AIDA64 and HWINFO32.

    You should really give AIDA64 a try, either it will work fine, or you will have a BSOD.

    I had AIDA64 working fine with 82.69 drivers, but then it suddenly stopped working and I do not know why is that. That was with the same program version, so that wasn't the problem!

    I've been discussing this issue with the authors of AIDA64, as you can see here:

    https://forums.aida64.com/topic/4017-windows-98se-blue-screen-of-death-with-the-kerneldw9x-llkd/

    They can't seem to reproduce the issue I'm experiencing, so it's all a matter of being lucky :)

    AIDA64 has some HW monitoring overlays, but I do not know if they work with Windows 98 SE. There's no FPS monitor, I can't think of anything else than Fraps 1.9d.

    I haven't used HWINFO32 much but I know it works, but the functionality is limited there, unlike AIDA64.

     

  5. 3 hours ago, LoneCrusader said:

    This may not apply to Windows ME and therefore may not be of any use to the OP, but here's a heads up to anyone using 98SE - Realtek's A405 and A406 AC'97 WDM packages use an ALCXWDM.SYS file that is missing a WDM function under 98SE, namely MmMapLockedPagesSpecifyCache. Therefore A405 and A406 are probably never going to work on a vanilla 98SE system, no matter what audio device you have. You will need WDMSTUB.SYS or rloew's WDMEX.VXD to provide this function. The A404 version does not appear to have any missing functions.

    (If anyone can check Windows ME and see if this function is available there we can clarify whether or not ME is affected by this.)

    Ooh! That explains why A405 and A406 never worked for me when I had the ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3 motherboard with Windows 98 SE!

    PS: Some drivers include WDMSTUB.SYS in their packages!

  6. Here's how it looks on my Windows 10 1809 17763.316 system (I'm long overdue for an Arch Linux install, I'm sorry :( )

    <tt>GetVersion:        0x23F00206

    GetVersionExA (OSVERSIONINFOA*):
       dwOSVersionInfoSize    0x00000094
       dwMajorVersion         0x00000006
       dwMinorVersion         0x00000002
       dwBuildNumber          0x000023F0
       dwPlatformId        0x00000002
       szCSDVersion[128]    "" [00 00 00 00 ...]
       return TRUE

    GetVersionExA (OSVERSIONINFOEXA*):
       dwOSVersionInfoSize    0x0000009C
       dwMajorVersion         0x00000006
       dwMinorVersion         0x00000002
       dwBuildNumber          0x000023F0
       dwPlatformId        0x00000002
       szCSDVersion[128]    "" [00 00 00 00 ...]
       wServicePackMajor    0x0000
       wServicePackMinor    0x0000
       wSuiteMask        0x0100
       wProductType        0x01
       wReserved        0x00
       return TRUE

    GetVersionExW (OSVERSIONINFOW*):
       dwOSVersionInfoSize    0x00000114
       dwMajorVersion         0x00000006
       dwMinorVersion         0x00000002
       dwBuildNumber          0x000023F0
       dwPlatformId        0x00000002
       szCSDVersion[128]    "" [00 00 00 00 ...]
       return TRUE

    GetVersionExW (OSVERSIONINFOEXW*):
       dwOSVersionInfoSize    0x0000011C
       dwMajorVersion         0x00000006
       dwMinorVersion         0x00000002
       dwBuildNumber          0x000023F0
       dwPlatformId        0x00000002
       szCSDVersion[128]    "" [00 00 00 00 ...]
       wServicePackMajor    0x0000
       wServicePackMinor    0x0000
       wSuiteMask        0x0100
       wProductType        0x01
       wReserved        0x00
       return TRUE

    gv=0x23F00206
    gvex=6,2,23F0,2,,0,0,100,1,0</tt>

  7. This all seems logical, I had some problems with 3DMark 2001SE with 1GB of RAM, even if the rest of the system worked fine, that disappeared when limiting the amount to 512MB.

    I myself stand that having the amount of RAM between 512MB and 1024MB may still cause unexpected problems, like me or OP had, even if the system boots up correctly.

    I never had ANY problems with using 512MB of RAM or below.

    Put:

    MaxPhysPage=20000

    in the [386enh] section in the system.ini file inside the Windows directory.

    This will limit the amount of RAM to 512MB. If you still encounter issues, try

    MaxPhysPage=10000

    This will limit the amount of RAM to 256MB, although I don't think that would be necessary.

  8. On my ThinkPad X230, there's no OHCI controller present in the system, all the USB ports are handled by the EHCI and XHCI controllers, I can disable the XHCI controller in the BIOS/UEFI, but that's about it.

    Now, since there's no OHCI controllers, Windows 98 SE does not pick up any USB devices when installed.

    When I've tried to install the unofficial USB 2.0 drivers, I get Code 2 on the USB Hub, which means USB does not work at all.

    Does USB 2.0 on Windows 98 SE require OHCI/UHCI (USB 1.1) controllers to be present before hand?

  9. From what I know, Windows ME welcome works very differently, I haven't tested it.

    All files you need are on the setup CABs in the CD of the system, I can't share them here. :)

    I don't know if the registry is needed in the first place, but all the instructions are on the screenshot itself.

    You also need win.wbm in the WELCOME folder, it got cut off in the screenshot, sorry :(

    Even if you managed to get it working, the buttons don't do anything, it's just a useless show piece. :P

    Off-topic - Welcome.exe also works on Wine on my Arch Linux laptop :P
    welcome.png

  10. Sadly, this is a problem I had to face myself, there's nothing you can do.

    Disabling/removing DWM/switching to Basic/Classic theme in Windows 7 disables global Vsync for the entire desktop that DWM provides.

    Since you're at more than 60Hz, it's even more noticeable.

    In Windows 8/8.1/10 DWM cannot be removed normally, therefore Vsync is always turned on and on there, everything looks fine.

    Not to mention, DWM in Windows 7 helps you with the GPU acceleration for the desktop drawing, rather than having it all on the CPU.

    While I myself had used classic theme on Windows 7 and disabled DWM in services.msc, I think the constant screen tearing is not worth the trade-off.

    Best bet is to turn on Aero, use small taskbar size, and disable any animations.

    Your GPU is between GT 1030 and GTX 1050, it can handle Aero :)

    Aero really got bad wrap back when Vista came out, people still had MX440's in their PCs back then. The drivers were very buggy at the beginning, as it was a completely new WDDM architecture.

    In Windows 7, Aero is not discouraged anymore and was perfected in my opinion. But the bad image stayed from the Vista days.

    Yes, there are some annoyances with Aero with the annoying messages (The color scheme has been changed to Windows 7 Basic,) but that's easily fixable:

    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/70829-program-compatibility-assistant-enable-disable.html


     

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