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NDIS2 is a DOS driver, but using the OEMSETUP.INF provided, it installs alongside the Unknown card in Device Manager as a separate entity, using the Add New Hardware wizard. Note how there's this selection: Windows 98 (95?) was meant to work with older DOS network drivers in mind. When using an NDIS driver, only the second option is available. As I've said in another topic, I've used it successfully, though performance was mediocre. As for the .sys driver for my motherboard, the .sys works flawlessly. Pretty neat for a 2016 motherboard, so I can't help you all with NDIS2 driver, as I don't need it.

I've successfully used an NDIS2 driver with the ASUS X75VB laptop. It has an Atheros AR8161 chip. Funny that, now I can't find the NDIS2 driver any more, it seems to be gone forever. I've also tried to use an NDIS2 driver on the Lenovo IdeaPad Z510 laptop with a Realtek Fast Ethernet chip. It didn't work. All it did was hang the system, after rebooting again, the ASD.EXE utility disabled the driver. When you enable it, it hangs the system and the circle continues. I'll also try the NDIS2 driver on my ASRock H110M-DVS R3.0 motherboard, alongside the normal .sys driver.

What's the 8111E device ID? My ASRock H110M-DVS R3.0 Motherboard has this device id which is present in the 2008 last 98SE .sys driver from Realtek: PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&REV_02 I've yet to test it.

I don't think if 128bit versions are available in low-profile variant...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/display/windows-2000-display-driver-model-design-guide "If you want to create a display driver for Windows 98/Me, you can use the WDK documentation that released with Windows Vista. You can obtain the WDK for Windows Vista RTM from the Microsoft Connect website." I've managed to get a hold of one. But there is not documentation for 9x! Lying bastards! Guess it's time for 98 and 2000 DDK's to take a look at.

Well, I apologize, I've edited my post. Still, no drivers for 1600 and 1800 exists for 98SE, period.

I mean PCIe 1x, not 16x. If there is a PCie 1x device with 98SE drivers, I will change my post, I apologize.

Sadly, Hauppauge also claims this WinTV-HVR-1600 supports only XP and above :/

This device is too new for 98SE. Best bet is to find an older TV Tuner that has 98SE drivers available, there are a couple of them from Hauppauge.

I ran UT99 on VBEMP under 98SE using software renderer, but that was on a different PC (a nForce 550 chipset MoBo, with Socket AM2, and AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+) I used a GeForce GT 220, and a HD 5670 DDR3 cards, both of them ran it. The performance was good due to the CPU being good. But for 3D games without software renderer, you're out of luck. DirectDraw games maybe would work(?) Haven't tested them yet.

Many people tried 8 series on 98SE, all of them failed. ALL! I don't need to do tests, they have already been done, google them. Unified Shaders are a fundamental architecture change that sticks with us to this day. Drivers have to be rewritten to support them to even get to the desktop. There must be a reason NVIDIA gave up on 98SE support after the 7xxx series, I think it's this one. If you want to run low end games that do not use Direct3D, Glide or OpenGL at all, rather depending on DirectDraw and software rendering (if possible), VBEMP is all you have. I ran UT99 on VBEMP using software renderer under 98SE. 98SE cannot use multi-GPU chip cards. They will only use one of them. 7950GX2 has two GPU chips. A single one of them is equivalent to a 7950GT. And a 7950GT is slower than the 7900GTX. Therefore 7950GX2 is slower than 7900GTX. Look here: http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/osibs_s2rb Could you try the Radeon X1xxx series? They do not have Unified Shaders, but don't have 98SE drivers, not many people tried them under 98SE, could be interesting.

7900GTX is a better choice.

Seeing as no development has been made in over three years, I don't think we will see anything new from him. Too bad really, VBEMP makes 98SE on modern GPUs usable. Flawlessly working at 1080p on my H110 motherboard with the Pentium G4560 and Intel HD 610, with all VBEMP limitations considered.

If you want the best performance, low-profile and passive cooling, this is the best bet.

What kind of performance do you need? Look for a low-profile GeForce 6200. Other low-profile alternative is the Radeon 9250.

The VCACHE.VXD patch. It makes 3DMark 2001SE works with 1GB of RAM, at least on my rig, without it, the programs errors while benchmarking. It can fix errors. Though if i think correctly, rloew's RAM patch already includes the VCACHE patch...right?

I'm agreeing with jaclaz. I run NFS: Most Wanted 05 and NFS: Carbon, under 98SE with 1GB RAM w/ Xeno86's patch fine. The Witcher 1 and Fallout 3 also runs, albeit glitchy. I don't think more than 1GB w/ Xeno86's patch is necessary...unless someone runs GTA IV which I've tried for months to no avail :c And about the web browsing argument, it gets more difficult each day, and the sites that are demanding are not working/laggy even with more than 1GB of RAM. It's the web browser's fault, not 98SE per se. So, until there's a modern game which runs under 98SE fine that requires more than 1GB of RAM, or a new modern web browser, 1GB is all you need. About swap file, what 98SE era commercial programs benefit from a swap file, does DOS need a swap file as well? Programs that might require it, are written with NT system in mind...I think.

What modifications? I just make a MS-DOS format using Rufus (8.1 and lower OS, 10 does not support that), copy the files (replacing command.com and io.sys to the 98se versions), boot from it, install the first part, edit system.ini for MaxPhysPage, boot again, install, end. Once I obtain a 7900GTX, I will try to run 98SE with it on my ASRock H110M-DVS R3.0. It has a CSM toggle. No SATA mode selection. Also, one thing I'm wondering, how does your SATA patch work, is it a MPD file, or a PDR file?

That's just one problem, what about non-English versions of such files? Even more trouble!

I did modify the MaxMTU, did nothing.

/v/ link is equal to embedding a video on an another website. The uploader can set so that embedding a video is disabled, and the video will not open under the /v/ format.

I love 98SE, but even I think it's high time not to bother with web browsers for 98SE at all. If you're doing a build with 98SE, it's probably not powerful enough to run modern YouTube/Facebook on a modern OS like XP/7. Especially if you want period correctness. Unless you're doing another ASRock motherboard Socket 775 98SE overkill build. Then maybe it is powerful enough, but that's a minority. This won't help for the ever changing websites, thet will break more with every single day under Opera 12.02. Facebook and YouTube under Opera 12.02 were working fine in 2015 with the latest Flash, but today's Facebook layout is screwed (mind that I was using the 1024x768 resolution), and YouTube is much slower. Also fonts are pretty much always broken and downright ugly. (Times New Roman on YouTube, blargh!)

I had slow network speeds as well on my nForce 3 motherboard, with the latest drivers from NVIDIA's website under 98SE. I've tried TCPOptimizer to no avail. Maybe WinME will be faster?

My ASUS X75VB laptop is also "working" with 98SE. Working ain't everything without drivers.

The installer version does not work for me as well, use the manual .INF version here: http://www.mdgx.com/files/NV8269.ZIP